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Trump reverses on the need for a ceasefire before a potential peace deal ending the war in Ukraine 08/16/2025 04:55pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� U.S. President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to say an overall peace agreement ��� not the ceasefire that he has long championed ��� is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year war in Ukraine. In talks with European al Summit puts Putin back on the global stage and Trump echoes a Kremlin position 08/16/2025 03:22pm • In Alaska, President Vladimir Putin walked on a red carpet, shook hands and exchanged smiles with his American counterpart. Donald Trump ended the summit praising their relationship and calling Russia ���a big power ... No. 2 in the world,��� albeit admitting they didn't reach a deal on ending the w AT&T may pay customers up to $7,500 in $177 million data breach settlement 08/16/2025 08:06am • (CNN) ��� Millions of AT&T customers can file claims worth up to $7,500 in cash payments as part of a $177 million settlement related to data breaches in 2024. The telecommunications company had faced a pair of data breaches, announced in March and July 2024, that were met with lawsuits. H Things to know about the indictment against the New Orleans mayor 08/16/2025 12:03am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Months before New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was set to leave office because of term limits, she has been indicted in what prosecutors allege was a yearslong scheme to conceal a romantic relationship with her bodyguard. Prosecutors say bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie was being paid Takeaways from the Trump-Putin meeting: No agreement, no questions but lots of pomp 08/15/2025 11:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began with a warm welcome and a flyover by screaming jets at a U.S. military base in Alaska but ended with a thud Friday after they conceded that they had failed to reach any agreeme Trump administration agrees to keep DC police chief in place, but with immigration enforcement order 08/15/2025 11:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a new memo, directed the District���s police to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement regardless o The Latest: Trump says no deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war was made with Putin after Alaska talks 08/15/2025 09:33pm • U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not reach a deal to end Russia���s war in Ukraine after talks in Alaska on Friday, as the two leaders offered scant details on what was discussed but heaped praise on one another. Putin said he and Trump had reached an ���u Some workers would be excluded from student loan forgiveness program for 'illegal' activity 08/15/2025 05:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Teachers, social workers, nurses and other public workers would be cut off from a popular student loan cancellation program if the Trump administration finds their employer engaged in activities with a ���substantial illegal purpose,��� under a new federal proposal released on Fr Federal agents hid in back of rental truck at start of raid outside LA Home Depot 08/15/2025 04:18pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� U.S. Border Patrol agents jumped out of the back of a rented box truck and made arrests Wednesday at a Los Angeles Home Depot store during an immigration raid that an agency official called ���Operation Trojan Horse.��� The early morning raid near downtown LA came just days afte What do seniors want in their homes? Developer asks DC residents 08/15/2025 04:18pm • A community room inside the Southwest Library in D.C.���s Ward 6 was packed with older residents. Some had canes, some had walkers, one had a wheelchair, but all were eager to get a chance to be heard about their concerns and weren���t shy about participating in some movement instruction as w The US plans to build a $750M fly factory in Texas to stop a flesh-eating cattle parasite 08/15/2025 02:53pm • The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging the American cattle industry. Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Ethiopian fossil Lucy leaves for her first exhibition in Europe 08/15/2025 07:08am • ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) ��� The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy left Ethiopia for display in a European museum, Ethiopian national media reported Friday, citing Tourism Minister Selamawit Kassa. Lucy���s skeleton, which is 40% complete, left Ethiopia on Friday and will be displayed at the Cze Serbian protesters are back on the streets as clashes with government loyalists escalate 08/15/2025 01:55am • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Thousands of anti-government protesters returned to the streets in Serbia on Thursday after two days of clashes with loyalists of autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic and riot police that left dozens injured or detained. Police fired tear gas in at least two cities and num Bondi names DEA head as DC's 'emergency police commissioner,' but capital leaders push back 08/15/2025 12:58am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration, stepping up its crackdown on policing in the nation's capital, on Thursday named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington's ���emergency police commissioner" with all the powers of the police chief ��� a significant move that incr Social Security has existed for 90 years. Why it may be more threatened than ever 08/14/2025 10:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law 90 years ago this week, he said it would provide economic stability to older people while giving the U.S. "an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.��� Today, the program provides benefits to a