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Jurors are deliberating in murder trial of Brian Walshe, whose wife disappeared 2 years ago 12/12/2025 04:41pm • BOSTON (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Friday in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife more than two years ago. Ana Walshe’s body has never been found since she disappeared on New Year’s Day 2023. The same day his wife was last s This Montgomery Co. teen's kidnapping motivated her to start a toy drive 12/12/2025 04:00pm • A cadre of police cars pulled up to Montgomery County Circuit Court in Rockville, Maryland, on Thursday afternoon to collect more than $1,100 worth of toys to be distributed to kids in need this Christmas. Inside those vehicles was a cast of characters, including the Grinch, several elves and Russian cargo jet grounded 16 years in Michigan's Upper Peninsula may soon fly again 12/12/2025 03:36pm • One of Michigan's most enduring sagas in the Upper Peninsula — the grounding of a Russian cargo jet marooned near Marquette for 16 years — may soon come to an end after years of lawsuits, police investigations and feuding over ownership. The tale that touches Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Pakistan and Te Man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school in Memphis avoids prison with guilty plea 12/12/2025 03:05pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who was shot by police after he fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in 2023 pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to eight years’ probation. Joel Bowman, 35, entered guilty pleas to aggravated assault and aggravated b A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech 12/12/2025 01:25pm • MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang was recuperating from cancer on a Korean resort island when he got an urgent call: Don’t return to China, a friend warned. You’re now a fugitive. Days later, a stranger snapped a photo of Li in a cafe. Terrified South Korea would sen Woman charged in unprovoked stabbing of tourist changing baby's diaper in Macy’s Herald Square store 12/12/2025 12:52pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman changing her infant daughter's diaper in the bathroom of the Macy’s Herald Square store in New York City was stabbed and injured by another woman in an unprovoked attack, police said. The attack occurred Thursday afternoon at the store in Manhattan. The 38-year Chileans are divided in a presidential runoff tilted toward the far right 12/12/2025 12:39pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Ask many Chileans how their country fared in the past several years and they'll describe a descent into disaster: Venezuelan gangs surged across porous borders, bringing unprecedented kidnappings and contract killings to one of the region’s safest nations. A social uprisin Russian police and National Guard will stay in Ukraine's Donbas postwar, a Kremlin official says 12/12/2025 12:35pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Kremlin official said Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas and oversee the industry-rich region, even if a peace settlement ends Russia's nearly four-year war in Ukraine. The remarks by Kremlin adviser Yuri Ushakov Somali flag flown outside Vermont school building over Trump 'garbage' slur brings threats 12/12/2025 11:31am • WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) — A small school district in Vermont was hit with racist and threatening calls and messages after a Somali flag was put up a week ago in response to President Donald Trump referring to Minnesota’s Somali community as “ garbage." The Winooski School District began to display Belarus leader hosts US envoy as he seeks to improve his country's ties with the West 12/12/2025 10:26am • Authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in the Belarus capital of Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader's effort to improve ties with the West. Lukashenko met with President Donald Trump's special envoy for Belarus, John Coale, according to state New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Jewish holiday, months before they were killed 12/12/2025 10:22am • TEL AVIV (AP) — New footage of six Israeli hostages shows them celebrating the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah while being held captive in a tunnel in Gaza, several months before they were killed. Israel said all six were killed last August by Hamas, shortly before Israeli troops arrived. The videos an Pope meets with Italian secret agents and urges them to be ethical 12/12/2025 10:01am • ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV met Friday with members of Italy’s intelligence services and warned them not to use confidential information for blackmailing or other nefarious purposes. Leo urged the 007s, as the Italian agents are popularly known, to do their work professionally and ethically, always Ford turns to stepped-up tech and cooperation with police to thwart F-150 pickup thieves 12/12/2025 06:03am • DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. has stepped up technology in its popular F-150 pickup to combat the ever-evolving techniques car thieves have at their disposal. It is the latest cat-and-mouse move that the automaker hopes will help customers avoid the costly and frustrating process that occurs when Cut off by their banks and even iced out by Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute 12/12/2025 01:20am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden. Nine staff members, including six judges and the ICC's c Reddit challenges Australia's world-first law banning children under 16 from social media 12/12/2025 12:09am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms. California-based Reddit Inc.’s suit filed in the Hig