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Top US immigration official defends rule targeting 'anti-American' views in green card, visa process 09/09/2025 04:48pm • CAMP SPRINGS, Maryland (AP) ��� A new rule allowing a U.S. immigration agency to scrutinize a person's ���anti-American��� views when applying for a green card or other benefits isn't designed to target political beliefs, but to identify support for terrorist activity, the organization's director to Georgia judge to toss landmark racketeering charges against 'Cop City' protesters 09/09/2025 03:36pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call ���Cop City.��� Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer sa 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 'Block Everything' protests and pigs' heads roil France as Macron installs new PM 09/09/2025 02:40pm • PARIS (AP) ��� French authorities say they're bracing for possible acts of sabotage and other violence when tens of thousands of protesters are expected to respond to online calls to disrupt the country on Wednesday, potentially compounding France's latest political crisis triggered by the governmen US household income rose slightly last year, roughly matching 2019 level 09/09/2025 01:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The income for the typical U.S. household barely rose last year and essentially matched its 2019 peak, the Census Bureau said Tuesday, a stark illustration of the impact that the pandemic inflation spike had on Americans' finances. The report also showed that the highest-earning Activist group says a drone hit a Gaza aid boat in Tunisia. Authorities deny claim 09/09/2025 01:02pm • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ��� An international activist group seeking to deliver aid to Gaza on a flotilla said Tuesday one of its main boats was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia. Tunisian authorities denied the claim, saying they were investigating a life jacket that caught on fire. All onboard wer Detailed findings from AP investigation into how US tech firms enabled China's digital police state 09/09/2025 08:49am • BEIJING (AP) ��� American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China���s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known, an Associated Press investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese police, go Top EU official von der Leyen to outline plans for dealing with Europe's challenges in major speech 09/09/2025 07:31am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a major state of the union speech on Wednesday addressing the challenges facing the world���s biggest trading bloc and laying out her vision for tackling them. The commission has enthusiastically billed her speech ��� mode New Chicago immigration campaign prompts confusion as city braces for federal intervention 09/08/2025 10:25pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� The Department of Homeland Security trumpeted the start of a new immigration operation Monday in Chicago, stirring up fresh confusion and anxiety as the city remained on alert for a federal intervention President Donald Trump has touted for days. Blasting so-called sanctuary laws in The Latest: New Chicago ICE campaign prompts confusion over Trump���s plans for federal intervention 09/08/2025 08:21pm • The Department of Homeland Security announced the start of a new immigration operation Monday in Chicago called ��� Operation Midway Blitz,��� stirring up fresh confusion and anxiety over a possible federal intervention in the nation���s third-largest city. President Donald Trump said Monday that he No bond for man charged with murdering Da'Cara Thompson in Prince George's County 09/08/2025 06:44pm • The man accused of killing 19-year-old Da'Cara Thompson last month was ordered held without bond after his first court appearance on Monday in Prince George's County, Maryland. Hugo Hernandez-Mendez, 35, was charged in Thompson's murder on Friday after prosecutors accused him of driving Thomp 45 soldiers let go after crowd prevented them from leaving a remote Colombian village, army says 09/08/2025 06:31pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� Forty-five soldiers have been let go after being surrounded by hundreds of civilians who blocked them from leaving a village in a coca-growing region of southwestern Colombia, the country's army said Monday. The army showed videos of some of the soldiers disembarking Monday Judge OKs settlement in North Carolina voter registration lawsuit by Justice Department 09/08/2025 05:47pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� A federal judge on Monday approved a plan to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump���s Justice Department that demanded North Carolina election officials accumulate identification numbers lacking on the records of more than 100,000 registered voters. U.S. District J Supreme Court lifts restrictions on LA immigration stops set after agents swept up US citizens 09/08/2025 05:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for federal agents to conduct sweeping immigration operations for now in Los Angeles, the latest victory for President Donald Trump's administration at the high court. The conservative majority lifted a restraining order from a judge wh Editorial Roundup: United States 09/08/2025 04:39pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Sept. 5 The New York Times says Trump's trade policies are damaging U.S. economy and it's global leadership When the United States pushed to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers in the wake of World War II, much of the world fol