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PHOTO ESSAY: Under watch by Chinese tech, the Tibetan community in Nepal is slowly suffocating 12/20/2025 12:04am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — In Nepal, the unseen eye has changed Tibetan life. The cameras are not just machines perched on the thick bundles of wires that twist through narrow lanes of Kathmandu in Nepal. They are a presence, an unseen watcher that Tibetans have learned to fear. In the city's refuge Justice Department releases limited set of files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation 12/19/2025 10:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department released thousands of files Friday about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the incomplete document dump did not break significant ground about the long-running criminal investigations of the financier or his ties to wealthy and powerful individual 3 killed in Taiwan knife attack, with the suspect later falling to his death from a department store 12/19/2025 09:44pm • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A man with at least one knife and smoke grenades attacked crowds indiscriminately in Taiwan's capital on Friday evening, killing at least three people and injuring 11 others, according to the national news agency and the city government. The suspect later fell to his death fr The Latest: Justice Department releases some case files on Jeffrey Epstein 12/19/2025 09:27pm • The Department of Justice on Friday released some of its records related to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. The convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most powerful people, including President Donald Trump, who long sought to keep the f Brown University attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy finds 12/19/2025 08:32pm • An autopsy determined that the man suspected in last weekend's attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when his body was found, New Hampshire's attorney general's office said Friday Authorities found A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootings 12/19/2025 07:19pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the 48-year-old Portuguese national returned to the A Brazilian judge allows ex-President Bolsonaro to leave prison for a hernia surgery 12/19/2025 07:15pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup since November, was granted permission on Friday to leave prison for a hernia surgery. The date of the surgery has not been announced. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Ale A sunrise crowd gathers at Bondi Beach in solace and defiance after a massacre 12/19/2025 06:59pm • SYDNEY (AP) — In the first full day of opening since a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Australia's famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, thousands of people returned to the waterfront Friday to commemorate the losses and try to heal through a sense of community. In a hastily organi DC police Chief Smith gives fiery speech at walkout ceremony 12/19/2025 06:43pm • Outgoing D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith had some strong parting words Friday as she gets ready to leave the department amid allegations of manipulating data to make it seem that crime decreased in the District. "Let's be really clear about one thing: Never would I, never will I, ever compromise m Northern California city to reform police after racist texts scandal 12/19/2025 06:43pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California city whose police department came under national scrutiny after it was revealed that some officers shared racist and sexist texts, used excessive force and falsified records has reached a settlement agreement to implement a series of reforms, officials an A timeline of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the fight to make the government’s files public 12/19/2025 06:28pm • Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to release its investigative files on the late millionaire, who was accused of repeatedly sexually abusing underage girls. Enacted last month, the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires disclosure of Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US 12/19/2025 06:16pm • President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering t Life ring, lifeboat piece from Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck sell at auction for $150,000 12/19/2025 05:56pm • DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship's sinking in Lake Superior with 29 men aboard. The relics were discovered by a carpenter in 1975 along the shore in Michig Chicago boosts transit police presence after renewed federal funding cut threat over crime 12/19/2025 05:46pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Transit Authority bolstered security on the public transport system Friday, a day after President Donald Trump's administration repeated its threat to withhold $50 million in federal funding if it didn't deliver a more aggressive crime-cutting plan. The Chicag Toronto man facing terror charges targeting Jews and women 12/19/2025 05:34pm • TORONTO (AP) — A Toronto man has been arrested on terrorism charges and is also facing charges for two failed kidnappings of women. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Waleed Khan, 27, in late November for providing property knowing it would be used by the the Islamic State group and provi