Maduro is set to make his first appearance in a US courtroom on drug trafficking charges
Jan 05, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to make his first appearance Monday in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism charges the Trump administration used to justify capturing him and bringing him to New York.…
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Pope opens 2026 with plea for peace in countries bloodied by war, families wounded by violence
Jan 02, 2026
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries “bloodied by conflict” and families wounded by violence. Leo celebrated a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica…
Where are the wackiest New Year's Eve drops in the US?
Dec 31, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) -- Why let New York City have all the fun with its Times Square ball drop on New Year’s Eve? Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of…
Court releases transcript from closed hearing for man accused of killing Charlie Kirk
Dec 30, 2025
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge on Monday ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October over whether the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk must be shackled during court proceedings.…
Powerball’s $1.7B jackpot could make Christmas Eve unforgettable for a lucky winner
Dec 24, 2025
DES MOINES (AP) -- A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize, which comes after months without a jackpot winner.…
Powerball jackpot soars to $1.7 billion after another night with no big winner
Dec 23, 2025
DES MOINES (AP) -- The Powerball jackpot has jumped to an eye-popping $1.7 billion, after the 46th drawing passed without a big winner. The numbers drawn Monday night were 3, 18, 36, 41, 54 and the Powerball…
Top Trump administration official defends partial release of Epstein files as Democrats cry foul
Dec 22, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline as necessary to protect survivors of…
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say
Dec 19, 2025
SALEM, N.H. (AP) -- A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also…
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Dec 18, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of…
Trump expands travel ban and restrictions to include an additional 20 countries
Dec 17, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits announced earlier this year on who…