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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 'Don���t have them out': Police warn about leaving holiday gifts in cars 12/19/2025 04:12am • 'Tis the season for holiday shopping, but while you���re focused on your gift list, police say Grinches are watching you and your car. With stores packed, Police Officer First Class Chaudlier Shepherd with Prince George���s County Police says criminals are always looking for ways to strike. Today in History: December 19, Bill Clinton is impeached 12/19/2025 04:10am • Today is Friday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2025. There are 12 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 19, 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was subsequently acquitted by the Senate.) Also on this date: How 1 anonymous tipster cracked the Brown University shooting case 12/19/2025 02:04am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Information from a tipster who had a strange encounter with another man on a sidewalk outside Brown University was key to police identifying the suspect they believe killed two students at the school and then two days later gunned down a Massachusetts Institute of Technolog Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor���s killing is found dead, officials say 12/19/2025 01:53am • A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend���s mass shooting at Brown University ended Thursday at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Claudio Nev Protesters storm offices of leading Bangladesh dailies after a 2024 uprising activist dies 12/19/2025 12:13am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Angry protesters stormed the offices of Bangladesh���s two leading newspapers late Thursday after the death of a prominent activist in last year���s political uprising in Bangladesh. The crowds set fire to the buildings of the dailies, trapping journalists and other staff EU delays massive free-trade deal with South American bloc Mercosur 12/18/2025 11:43pm • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The European Union is delaying a massive free-trade deal with South American countries after fiery protests by farmers and last-minute opposition by France and Italy threatened to derail the pact, seen by its backers as an important geopolitical move for both continents. Top EU off Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws 12/18/2025 09:43pm • SYDNEY (AP) ��� Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Matilda, whose last name is being withheld at Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dies at 88 12/18/2025 08:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in North Carolina politics in the late 20th century who helped leaders from both major parties strive for public education reform, died Thursday at the age of 88, his daughter Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt announced. The Latest: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children 12/18/2025 07:41pm • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans. The sweeping proposals ��� the most significant moves th Prosecutors ask US Supreme Court to restore conviction in Etan Patz missing child case 12/18/2025 07:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� New York City prosecutors asked the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to reinstate a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. Even as prosecutors prepare to retry the accused man, Pedro Hernandez, they are hoping the Supreme Court will short-circuit that proce Florida man executed for the killings of a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion 12/18/2025 06:53pm • STARKE, Fla. (AP) ��� A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion robbery was put to death Thursday evening in a record 19th execution in Florida this year. Frank Athen Walls, 58, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida Sta A bag, a hoagie and a long wait for a ruling: What we learned at Luigi Mangione���s pretrial hearing 12/18/2025 06:24pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A 911 call about a man resembling ���the CEO shooter.��� Body-camera footage of police arresting Luigi Mangione and pulling items from his backpack, including a gun that prosecutors say matches the one used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, and a notebook they have descr