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Adrienne Jones to step down, ending historic era as Maryland House Speaker 12/04/2025 03:24pm • Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County), the first woman and the first Black legislator to hold the post, is stepping down after more than six years in the job. Multiple sources confirmed that she had decided to retire before the 2026 legislative session. The annou US prioritizes visas for fans traveling for the World Cup, Olympics and other events 12/04/2025 02:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration has instructed U.S. embassies and consulates around the world to prioritize visa applications from foreigners wishing to visit the United States to either invest in America or attend the 2026 World Cup, 2028 Olympics and other major sporting events. At th Russia restricts FaceTime, its latest step in controlling online communications 12/04/2025 11:55am • Russian authorities said Thursday they have imposed restrictions on Apple's video calling service FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online. State internet regulator Roskomnadzor alleged in a statement that the service is being ���used to o Water leak in Montgomery Co. displaces 1,000 residents 12/04/2025 07:43am • A massive water leak Wednesday afternoon forced Montgomery County officials to condemn a Safeway grocery store and a neighboring apartment building in Wheaton, displacing around 1,000 residents ��� and their pets. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer said in a post on social Hong Kong residents and experts defend bamboo scaffolding after deadly fire 12/04/2025 12:55am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city���s deadliest blaze in decades, as a debate flares over whether it should be replaced. Autho How 2 killings exposed the depths of cartels' grip in Mexico's Michoacan state 12/04/2025 12:10am • APATZINGAN, Mexico (AP) ��� On a steamy night, a farmer from a village of modest tin-roofed homes surrounded by rolling lime orchards in western Mexico���s coastal mountains approached Rev. Gilberto Vergara for help. The drug cartels were extorting him and other growers so heavily that the math no l The Latest: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth put US personnel at risk with Signal use 12/03/2025 09:38pm • The Pentagon���s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen, two people familiar with the findings said Wednesday. Hegs Germany's president gets a royal welcome at start of the first UK state visit in 27 years 12/03/2025 07:45pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s King Charles III and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier put on a show of Anglo-Saxon unity Wednesday as their countries expand cooperation to fend off threats to European security, combat climate change and bolster economic growth. Charles and Steinmeier ��� the fir Alleged gang leader is sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping of 17 missionaries in Haiti 12/03/2025 03:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A man alleged to be the founder and leader of a Haitian gang was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for orchestrating the kidnapping of 17 people, including five children, who were on a missionary trip to the Caribbean country. Joly Germine declined to say anything before U Bulgaria's government withdraws controversial budget after major protests 12/03/2025 11:02am • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Bulgaria���s government said Tuesday it is withdrawing a controversial budget proposal after an evening demonstration drew tens of thousands of peaceful participants that was later marred by clashes between a much smaller group of masked men and police. Opposition and busine Justice Department expands legal action against states that have refused its demands for voter data 12/03/2025 06:05am • BOSTON (AP) ��� The Justice Department on Tuesday sued six more states in its ongoing campaign to obtain detailed voter data and other election information. The department announced it was suing Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington over their ���failure��� to produ Trump administration halts immigration applications for migrants from 19 travel-ban nations 12/02/2025 11:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year, as part of sweeping immigration changes in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard troops. The changes we The Latest: Hegseth defends second boat strike, citing ���fog of war��� 12/02/2025 09:46pm • Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday defended the secondary strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, citing the ���fog of war��� as reason for his not seeing any survivors in the water when the strike was ordered and launched. Hegseth���s comments came during a cabinet meeting ho Trump says National Guard will be sent to New Orleans 12/02/2025 07:38pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Tuesday that National Guard troops will soon head to New Orleans and bring another federal surge to the city that is already awaiting a separate immigration crackdown dubbed ���Swamp Sweep��� that is expected to begin this week. Trump did not say how Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says 12/02/2025 05:59pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Federal authorities are preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota that would primarily focus on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the planning. The move comes as President Donald Trump again on Tuesday