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Passenger bus crash in Indonesia kills at least 16 people, official says 12/22/2025 01:39am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A passenger bus crash killed at least 16 people on Indonesia’s main island of Java just after midnight Monday, officials said. The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll road and struck a concrete barrier before rolling onto its side, said Budiono, a search and r These influencers are teaching Christianity online — and young people are listening 12/21/2025 08:06pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Millennial and Generation Z Christian influencers are increasingly filling a void in American religion, growing audiences across digital platforms by steering young people to biblical answers to tough questions that aren't always answered in Sunday sermons. “I can be that in-betwe ICE agent fires shots at man after being hit by SUV 12/21/2025 05:42pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired shots Sunday at a Cuban immigrant living in the U.S. illegally after the man struck the agent and another one with an SUV in Minnesota's state capital, the Department of Homeland Security said. The man also bit an ICE agent Jury convicts Waldorf man in deadly forklift rampage 12/21/2025 04:02pm • A Charles County jury has found a 22-year-old Waldorf man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a woman he ran over with a forklift outside a Maryland Home Depot two years ago. Bryce Caleb Timothy Brown was convicted of killing Gloristine Pinkney, of Waldorf, on Dec. 16 after a seven-day New Jersey police chief faces domestic violence charges in Massachusetts, prosecutor says 12/21/2025 03:52pm • BOSTON (AP) — A New Jersey police chief is facing domestic violence charges in Massachusetts after prosecutors accused him of assaulting a woman at a hotel earlier this year. Carmen Veneziano, who leads Totowa, New Jersey's police department, was indicted Thursday on one count of kidnapping and th Multiple gunmen open fire at a South African pub, killing 9 and wounding 10 12/21/2025 01:19pm • BEKKERSDAL, South Africa (AP) — Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said. The incident occurred just before 1 a.m. in the township of Bekkersdal which is locate Israel's Cabinet approves 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank 12/21/2025 12:57pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Cabinet has approved a proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, the far-right finance minister said Sunday, as the government pushes ahead with a construction binge in the territory that further threatens the possibility of a Palestinian Officer who killed Tamir Rice fired from ranger position in West Virginia 12/21/2025 09:41am • SLATYFORK, W.Va. (AP) — The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was fired from his post as a ranger at a West Virginia resort community, the fourth known time in seven years that he left a small department following public backlash. Timothy Loehmann was fired o US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price 12/21/2025 08:33am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The white dome of Boudhanath rises like a silent guardian over the chaotic sprawl of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, crowned by a golden spire that pierces the sky. Painted on each of the spire’s four sides are the benevolent eyes of the Buddha — wide, calm, and unblinkin PHOTO ESSAY: Tibetans depart Nepal, a former safe haven transformed under Chinese pressure 12/21/2025 07:01am • DHARAMSHALA, India (AP) — Sonam Tashi refuses to let his son inherit the same fear. Once active in the Free Tibet movement in Kathmandu, he found himself silenced. Unable to secure identity papers for his son, he left for the Tibetan capital in exile in India this year where his son will begin an Thousands gather at Bondi Beach to mourn victims of antisemitic attack 12/21/2025 06:00am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Thousands of mourners gathered under tight police security at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday evening to mark a week since two gunmen targeting a Jewish festival killed 15 people. Since then, Australian governments have been galvanized into action on countering Today in History: December 21, Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie 12/21/2025 04:10am • Today is Sunday, Dec. 21, the 355th day of 2025. There are 10 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard the Boeing 747 and 11 on the ground. The blast occu Missing 79-year-old Herndon man found dead 12/21/2025 12:02am • A 79-year-old Herndon, Virginia, man who had been missing since Monday was found dead on Saturday. Authorities said that they found the body of Leonard Hugh Thompson in Troutville.  He had been missing since Monday evening, where surveillance video captured him pumping gas at an Exxon on Paci Prince George’s County fire and police departments team up for Toys for Tots 12/20/2025 08:23pm • One of the country’s largest annual Toys for Tots distribution events took place in Landover, Maryland, on Saturday, a couple of days before Christmas. A line of people stretching out more than a half mile waited for their turn to collect toys for their children, grandchildren, nieces and n South Dakota hotel owner found liable for discrimination against Native Americans 12/20/2025 04:14pm • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided the owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City will pay tens of thousands of do