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Chicagoans change routines as immigration crackdown looms. Some carry passports and avoid stores 09/09/2025 09:11pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The streets in some of Chicago's liveliest neighborhoods are quiet these days. Public schoolteachers want online learning for families scared to venture out. And houses of worship are urging people to carry identification everywhere they go. As the nation's third-largest city await Ethiopia inaugurates Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam as neighbors eye power imports 09/09/2025 08:46pm • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated Africa’s largest dam to boost the economy, end frequent blackouts and support the growth of electric vehicle development in a country that has banned the importation of gasoline-powered vehicles. As reservoir waters flowed into the tur Georgia teenager Mason Howell produces feats and big moments in a summer he won't forget 09/09/2025 07:35pm • PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Mason Howell goes back to Georgia for his senior year of high school, and he might have a hard time digesting just what transpired in a most astonishing four months. Howell's lone victory on his World Amateur Golf Ranking ledger was two years ago in the Billy Horschel J Princeton doctoral student kidnapped in Iraq has been freed. 'We both started sobbing,' sister says 09/09/2025 06:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Princeton University graduate student who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023 while doing research there has been freed and turned over to U.S. authorities, her family and officials said Tuesday. Elizabeth Tsurkov, who holds Israeli and Russian citizenship, spent more than 900 days i Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show 09/09/2025 03:30pm • BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intrica NASCAR's Denny Hamlin advances to the Round of 12 and Max Verstappen dominates in F1 09/09/2025 02:44pm • All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Bass Pro Shops Night Race Playoffs - Round of 16 Site: Bristol, Tennessee. Track: Bristol Motor Speedway. Race distance: 500 laps, 266.5 miles. Schedule: Friday, practice, 4:30 p.m., qualifying, 5:40 p.m.; Saturday, race, 7:30 p.m. (USA). Last year: Kyle Larson e Home Depot stores, long a hub for day laborers, now draw immigration agents out on raids 09/09/2025 11:09am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a Home Depot parking lot, a man patrols on a bicycle for federal immigration agents, toting a megaphone on his hip so he can blast a warning to day laborers waiting to land a landscaping or construction job. The workers from Mexico, El Salvador and elsewhere carry whistles t Maryland Gov. Moore makes re-election bid official, adds staff; Hale is now officially a Republican; more notes 09/09/2025 05:56am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) makes it official Tuesday, announcing his plans to seek re-election in 2026. The announcement, which was widely expected, was made in a campaign video in which Moore recounts his historic 2022 campaign, which made him the first Black governor in state history, as well as his ef How to Send Money Internationally 09/08/2025 08:00pm • Consumers who are sending money to their families or friends in another country have several options, but the expense and length of time it takes to complete a transfer are important factors when considering a method. International Money Transfer ConsiderationsWhile consumers can choose from several Appeals court upholds E. Jean Carroll's $83.3M defamation judgment against Trump 09/08/2025 03:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a civil jury's finding that President Donald Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for his repeated social media attacks and public statements against the longtime advice columnist after she accused him of sexual assault. The 2nd U Elderly California jewelry shop owner shoved to floor during brazen smash-and-grab robbery 09/08/2025 02:00pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An elderly California jewelry shop owner was violently shoved to the floor after a vehicle was used to crash into the store, and more than a dozen hooded and masked robbers smashed glass display cases and made off with merchandise. The robbery occurred about 2 p.m. Friday, Fans remain stuck in line as US Open final begins because of extra security with Trump attending 09/07/2025 08:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Fans enduring a lengthy wait to get into the U.S. Open final booed and chanted “Let us in! Let us in!” when the match between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner began Sunday after a delay. With extra security measures in place because President Donald Trump was watching the match What to Wear to a College Interview: Everything You Should Know 09/07/2025 08:00pm • Getting accepted to college can be extremely competitive, and the impression you create by what you wear to an admissions interview or an official campus visit can set you apart -- for better or worse -- from other applicants. It's called the rhetoric of dress -- how your wardrobe choices, along wi Freeze! Police ice cream trucks seek to portray officers in a positive light 09/07/2025 01:16am • NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The puns are plentiful as police departments around the country buy their own ice cream trucks and roll into neighborhoods to hand out frozen treats for free. “Copsicle Patrol” is written on the one in Danbury, Connecticut. “Freeze! You have the right to remain frozen,� Chicago's Mexican Independence Day celebrations shadowed by Trump’s threats for the city 09/06/2025 09:10pm • CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to dispatch National Guard troops and immigration agents into Chicago has put many Latino residents on edge, prompting some to carry their U.S. passports while giving others pause about openly celebrating the upcoming Mexican Independence Day. Though