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What to know about the man authorities say fatally shot 2 Brown students and an MIT professor 12/19/2025 05:07pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Several days of investigations into the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor ended when authorities discovered evidence they say indicates the killings were committed by the same man, who was then found dead fro UN's grim week: 6 peacekeepers and an interpreter killed, while 10 more staffers detained in Yemen 12/19/2025 04:50pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� It���s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan. A U.N. interpreter died while in the custody of South Sudan's security personnel. And 10 more U.N. staff were detained by Yemen's Houthi re Ecuadorian police arrest 2 suspects in the armed attack that killed soccer player Pineida 12/19/2025 03:36pm • QUITO (AP) ��� Ecuadorian police have arrested two suspects in the killing of soccer player Mario Pineida, who was shot in an attack this week that also killed his partner and wounded his mother, underscoring the rising violence in the Andean nation. The 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender a Rubio is hopeful about Russia-Ukraine and Gaza peace efforts but clear about the challenges 12/19/2025 03:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Secretary of State Marco Rubio was hopeful but clear about the challenges facing the Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defended increasing U.S. military pressure on Venezuela during a marathon end-of-year news conference Friday. In a freewhe Suicide car bomber, militants attack military post in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 soldiers 12/19/2025 03:15pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A suicide car bomber and three gunmen attacked a military post near a village in northwest Pakistan on Friday, triggering an hourlong gunbattle that killed four soldiers and wounded at least 15 civilians, including women and children, authorities said. The attack took place in Nor Georgia regulators approve huge electric generation increase for data centers 12/19/2025 02:54pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia's only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers. It would be one of the biggest build-outs in the U.S. to meet the insatiable electricity de Federal judge weighs Trump's claim he is immune from civil litigation over Capitol attack 12/19/2025 02:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Attorneys for President Donald Trump urged a federal judge on Friday to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election. U.S. District Ju Army sergeant pleads not guilty to charges that he shot 5 people at a Georgia base 12/19/2025 01:54pm • FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) ��� An Army sergeant appearing before a military judge Friday pleaded not guilty in the shootings of five people, including his romantic partner, at a Georgia base where he faces a trial by court-martial in June. Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, is charged with attempted murder an Woman killed in early morning Silver Spring crash 12/19/2025 01:50pm • A fatal collision in Silver Spring, Maryland, took the life of a pedestrian on Friday morning. At 6:12 a.m. in the area of Georgia and Silver Spring avenues, police and Montgomery County Fire Rescue personnel were dispatched for a collision involving a vehicle and a pedestrian. The driver of the Stage jitters replace fear of falling in ���Eddie the Eagle���s��� latest act 12/19/2025 12:34pm • GLOUCESTER, England (AP) ��� Waiting in the wings on opening night of ���Beauty and the Beast,��� Michael Edwards felt the nerve-wracking jitters he experienced four decades earlier staring through thick glasses down a perilously steep ski jump. The athlete-turned-performer better known as ���Eddie South Sudanese army officer and soldiers arrested over death of UN staff member 12/19/2025 11:40am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� A United Nations staff member was found dead in South Sudan days after being taken into custody by security personnel, the world body said in a statement. Army Lt. Lino Mariak Chol and two other soldiers were arrested after admitting to the killing and disclosing the whereabo Search for missing 79-year-old Herndon man continues into third day 12/19/2025 10:19am • Police are asking for the public's help to find a Herndon, Virginia, man who has been missing since Monday night. CLICK TO ENLARGE: A missing person flyer for 79-year-old Leonard Thompson of Herndon, Virginia. (Courtesy Virginia State Police) Virginia State Police issued a regionwide critical Oscar contender ���The Secret Agent��� capitalizes on the rise of Brazilian cinema 12/19/2025 10:17am • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� ���The Secret Agent,��� a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of Brazil���s military dictatorship in the 1970s ��� not because he is an activist or revolutionary, but 4 months in, activists say Trump's operation in Washington targets immigrants 12/19/2025 09:40am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� When President Donald Trump launched a law enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., four months ago, he billed it as a mission to fight rampant crime. But activists and local leaders say that description belies what has emerged as a simultaneous crackdown on immigrants, who Romanian court sentences US rapper Wiz Khalifa to 9 months for drug possession 12/19/2025 06:50am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ��� American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country. Khalifa was stopped by Romanian police in July 2024 after alleg