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Woman says she was raped after getting into a car she thought she had booked 10/19/2023 12:10pm • BOSTON (AP) — A man has been charged with raping a woman who thought he was the driver she requested after leaving a Boston nightclub. The woman told police she left the nightclub early Saturday and got into the car, believing it to be an Uber she had requested for the ride home. But after she got Man accused of bringing guns to Wisconsin Capitol now free on signature bond, can't possess weapons 10/19/2023 11:23am • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of bringing guns to the Wisconsin state Capitol building and demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers can go free on a signature bond but can't come near the governor or his family until his case is resolved, a court commissioner ordered Thursday. Joshua Pleasnick, 43, o Shooter attack in Belgium drives an EU push to toughen border and deportation laws 10/19/2023 08:58am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he chased two Swedish men into a building in Brussels this week and gunned them down at close range with a semiautomatic rifle. The 45-year-old Tunisian arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in Indonesian presidential candidates register for next year's elections as supporters cheer 10/19/2023 07:41am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of noisy, flag-waving political supporters created a celebratory atmosphere outside Indonesia’s election commission Thursday as candidates started registering for next year’s elections in the world’s third-largest democracy. More than 2,400 police were dep Spain’s leader mulls granting amnesty to thousands of Catalan separatists in order to stay in power 10/19/2023 07:38am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona accountant Oriol Calvo ran afoul of the law when he was arrested in 2019 during a mass protest by supporters of Catalonia's independence from Spain that turned violent. A court found him guilty of public disorder and of aggressive behavior toward a police officer Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody, is awarded EU human rights prize 10/19/2023 07:00am • STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize on Thursday. The EU award, nam PHOTOS: 300 arrested in Capitol Hill demonstration calling for cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war 10/19/2023 06:30am • (Video edited by WTOP’s Erron Franklin) Some 300 people were arrested during a large demonstration Wednesday on Capitol Hill calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war — with demonstrations moving outside the Israeli Embassy in Northwest D.C. later in the day. A Capitol Police spokesp EU awards top human rights prize to Masha Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody last year 10/19/2023 06:08am • STRASBOURG, France (AP) — EU awards top human rights prize to Masha Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody last year. WATCH: DC police search for suspects in armed robbery at the Wharf 10/19/2023 01:44am • D.C. police are asking for the public's help in locating four suspects and a vehicle that they believe are connected to an armed robbery in Southwest earlier this week. Surveillance video captured the suspects in the 600 block of Wharf Street SW shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, where they got o The pope's absolute power, and the problems it can cause, are on display in 2 Vatican trials 10/19/2023 12:03am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and posing uncomfortable questions for the Holy See, given they both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it. On Wednesday, the Live updates | Israel OKs limited aid for Gaza as regional tensions rise following hospital blast 10/18/2023 11:38pm • President Joe Biden has visited Israel on an urgent mission to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader regional conflict. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that limited humanitarian aid would be allowed into Gaza from Egypt following a request fro Brazil's Bolsonaro should be charged with attempting to stage a coup, congressional panel says 10/18/2023 10:44pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian congressional panel on Wednesday accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the country’s Jan. 8 riots and recommended that he be charged with attempting to stage a coup. An inquiry panel of senators and representatives mostly allied with the current Down, but not out: Two Argentine political veterans seek to thwart upstart populist 10/18/2023 10:08pm • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Economy Minister Sergio Massa and former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich adapted shrewdly over their combined seven decades in Argentine politics. It remains to be seen whether experience is an asset or a liability in what has already been an atypical presidentia Deadly attack in Belgium ignites fierce debate on failures of deportation policy 10/18/2023 09:29pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The alleged attacker who killed two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels this week before he was shot dead by police was residing in Belgium illegally and should have left the country three years ago, but never did. In a country that has been repeatedly rocked by extremist attacks, the Driver arrested after Pacific Coast Highway crash in Malibu kills 4 Pepperdine University students 10/18/2023 09:11pm • MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — A 22-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a crash in Malibu killed four college students and injured two other people, officials said Wednesday. The six pedestrians were struck around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday along Pacific Coast Highway about 4 miles (6.4