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Hong Kong police arrest man for posts about deadly fire 12/06/2025 09:02am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong���s national security police arrested a man on Saturday in the first publicly confirmed arrest relating to criticism of authorities over a high-rise apartment blaze that killed at least 159 people. Police said he had been accused of posting ���information with seditious South African police say at least 11 people, including 3 children, have been killed in a mass shooting at a bar 12/06/2025 07:16am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� South African police say at least 11 people, including 3 children, have been killed in a mass shooting at a bar. Overnight exchange of fire along the Afghan-Pakistan border kills 5 and wounds 8, officials say 12/06/2025 05:55am • JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) ��� An overnight exchange of fire between Afghan forces and Pakistani troops along the two countries��� tense border killed five Afghan civilians and wounded five others, while three civilians were also wounded on the Pakistani side, officials from the two countries said Tony-nominated playwright Jeremy O. Harris arrested in Japan for alleged ecstasy smuggling 12/06/2025 04:17am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Prominent American playwright and actor, Jeremy O. Harris, known for his Tony-nominated ���Slave Play,��� was arrested in Japan on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy, officials said Saturday. Officers at Naha Airport on Japan's southern island of Okinawa arrested Harr Louisiana inmates on the run after escaping by breaking through degrading jail wall 12/05/2025 11:13pm • OPELOUSAS, Louisiana (AP) ��� Two inmates accused of violent crimes, including second-degree attempted murder, are on the run after escaping from a southwestern Louisiana jail Wednesday by removing pieces of a degrading wall and using sheets to scale a wall, officials said. A third inmate who joined 911 calls reveal terror of July 4 floods as those trapped in attics and camp cabins beg for help 12/05/2025 09:44pm • A man clinging to a tree on the Guadalupe River and screaming for a helicopter rescue. A father hustling his family into the attic to escape the rising waters. A Camp Mystic staffer pleading with a 911 operator to send help immediately. Five months after catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 pe The Latest: Grand jury transcripts from abandoned Epstein investigation in Florida ordered released 12/05/2025 09:40pm • A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell on Friday. U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said a recently passed law ordering the release of records related to the cases overrode a federal rule Arizona congresswoman claims she was pepper sprayed during federal operation 12/05/2025 09:29pm • A federal law enforcement operation at an Arizona taco shop resulted in a fracas on Friday, with agents deploying pepper spray as a group of protesters tried to stop authorities. Two agents were injured, and U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva was in the vicinity as protesters were sprayed. The Democratic c Fairfax Co. tennis coach arrested, accused of inappropriate contact with minor 12/05/2025 09:29pm • A Fairfax County private tennis coach was arrested after his student reported to police that he had an inappropriate relationship with her while she was underage, according to a news release from police. Tony Adams, 62, of Lorton, Virginia, was taken into custody by Fairfax County Police Depa Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine gets 3 months in prison for violating probation in gang case 12/05/2025 08:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced to three more months in prison Friday for violating the terms of his supervised release in a New York gang case by assaulting a man and possessing drugs. The 29-year-old artist from Brooklyn, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, admitted to the 911 calls from Texas floods reveal chaotic and desperate pleas for rescues 12/05/2025 07:51pm • KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) ��� In an instant, frantic voices overwhelmed the two county emergency dispatchers on duty in the Texas Hill Country as catastrophic flooding inundated cabins and youth camps along the Guadalupe River. A firefighter clinging to a tree who watched his wife be swept away. A famil High school student, 18, charged with arson in fire that burned New York City subway passenger 12/05/2025 07:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A New York City high school senior was jailed Friday on a federal arson charge after authorities say he set a fire that severely burned a sleeping subway passenger. Hiram Carrero, 18, was not required to enter a plea during his arraignment in Manhattan federal court. The fire early Shops empty in a Hispanic neighborhood as immigration crackdown comes to Louisiana 12/05/2025 07:40pm • KENNER, La. (AP) ��� The doors of Carmela Diaz's taco joint are locked, the tables are devoid of customers and no one is working in the kitchen. It's one of many once-thriving Hispanic businesses, from Nicaraguan eateries to Honduran restaurants, emptied out in recent weeks in neighborhoods with lot West Virginia National Guard member who survived DC shooting is slowly healing, governor says 12/05/2025 07:28pm • INWOOD, W.Va. (AP) ��� The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week's shooting in Washington is slowly healing, West Virginia's governor said Friday. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe's head wound is slowly improving and ���he's beginning to ���look more like himself,������ Gov. Patrick M Iran to play at least one World Cup game on U.S. soil 12/05/2025 05:56pm • GENEVA (AP) ��� Iran will play at least one of its World Cup matches in the United States though the tournament draw on Friday avoided a group-stage clash between the geopolitical rivals. The Iranian team, representing a country targeted by U.S. airstrikes in June and whose citizens are subject to a