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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 Government shutdown deadline only weeks away: What's ahead? 09/08/2025 03:34pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at��Today on the Hill. Congress only has a few weeks to avoid a government shutdown, but leaders of both parties are still a long way from agreeing on a stopgap spending bill to keep federal worker What Americans think about socialism and capitalism, according to a new Gallup poll 09/08/2025 11:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� For years, Republicans have disparaged their political rivals by describing them as socialists. But that may not be the insult it once was for rank-and-file Democrats, who have warmed to socialism and increasingly see ���capitalism��� as a barb. A new Gallup poll finds that whil Explosive testimony identifies legislators, officials in Philippine flood-control corruption inquiry 09/08/2025 07:39am • MANILA, Philippines (AP) ��� A wealthy business couple Monday identified several Philippine congressmen and public works officials, alleging they forced them to pay huge kickbacks so they could secure lucrative flood-control projects from the government in explosive testimony during a nationally tel Argentina President Milei suffers crushing defeat in Buenos Aires provincial election 09/08/2025 02:04am • BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ��� Argentine President Javier Milei suffered a sweeping setback on Sunday in a Buenos Aires provincial election widely viewed as a political test for his libertarian party and a barometer for how it will perform in crucial congressional midterms next month. Milei's rece Guyana's president sworn in for a second term as oil wealth transforms the nation 09/07/2025 08:55pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Guyana's President Irfaan Ali was sworn in for a second term Sunday after winning last week's elections, as the South American country reaps a windfall from offshore oil and gas production. The electoral commission certified Ali's win on Saturday, saying he had ���secured a reso In rare ruling, Israeli Supreme Court says Israel deprives Palestinian prisoners of food 09/07/2025 08:33pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� In a highly rare exercise of wartime legal restraint, Israel���s Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the Israeli government has deprived Palestinian detainees of even a minimum subsistence diet and ordered authorities to increase the amount and improve the quality of food serve The Top 10 Largest Private Equity Firms in the World 09/07/2025 08:00pm • Wall Street is coming for your 401(k) under the banner of "democratizing access to alternative investments." On Aug. 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that could eventually allow employer retirement plans to include private investments. These would consist of direct equity, credit, Pope Leo XIV declares teen computer whiz Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint 09/07/2025 02:06pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church���s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname ���God���s influencer.��� Leo canonized Carlo