BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's president issued a decree Friday giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela wracked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups. President Gustavo Petro's decree gives him 90 days, which can be extend, to impose curfe...

The FBI said Friday that it arrested a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont earlier this week. Teresa Youngblut, 21, was charged in Monday's killing of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, the FBI said, noting that Youngblut and a German man who died in the firefight that a...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The FBI said Friday that it arrested a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont. Teresa Youngblut, 21, was charged in Monday's killing of Border Patrol Agent David Maland, the FBI said. It said Youngblut and a German man who died in the firefight had b...

FLETCHER, N.C. (AP) - President Donald Trump said he was considering "getting rid of FEMA" as he visited hurricane-battered North Carolina on Friday during the first trip of his second term. The comment, made during a briefing on the monthslong recovery from Hurricane Helene, was the latest signal of how Trum...

LONDON (AP) - A London judge on Friday rejected a U.S. mother's challenge to her extradition to face murder charges in Colorado in the deaths of two of her young children. The ruling by Judge John Zani at Westminster Magistrates' Court clears the way for the British government to order Kimberlee Singler's return to Ame...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the far-right extremist group leader's 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago. U.S. Di...

GOMA, Congo (AP) - The governor of eastern Congo's North-Kivu province has died from injuries sustained during fighting on the front line, authorities said Friday, as M23 rebels closed in on the provincial capital. M23 made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling Goma, which has around 2 million peopl...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the far-right extremist group leader's 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago. U.S. Di...

GOMA, Congo (AP) - The governor of eastern Congo's North-Kivu province died from injuries sustained on the front line Thursday as M23 rebels close in on Goma, authorities said Friday. M23 made significant territorial gains in recent weeks, encircling Goma, which has around 2 million people and is a regional hub for sec...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The Hamas militant group has published the names of four hostages it says it will release on Saturday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. There was no immediate confirmation of the names from Israel. Hamas released the names on Friday. The hostages are to be freed Saturday in exchange fo...

A nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani 's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the baseball star on a call with a bank as he attempted to transfer $200,000 for what he describes as a car loan, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The recording referenced in a court filing and obt...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The United Nations on Friday suspended all travel into areas held by Yemen's Houthi rebels after more of their staff were detained by the rebels. The statement comes after the Houthis detained U.N. staffers, as well as individuals associated with the once-open U.S. Embassy in Sanaa an...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The United Nations on Friday suspended all travel into areas held by Yemen's Houthi rebels after more of their staff were detained by the rebels. The statement comes after the Houthis have detained U.N. staffers, as well as individuals associated with the once-open U.S. Embassy in San...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Defending champion Jannik Sinner overcame some third-set cramping and beat Ben Shelton 7-6 (2), 6-2, 6-2 on Friday to return to the Australian Open final as he seeks a third Grand Slam title. The No. 1-ranked Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy, fell behind in the opening set and twice was a po...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Defending champion Jannik Sinner overcame some third-set cramping and beat Ben Shelton 7-6 (2), 6-2, 6-2 on Friday to return to the Australian Open final as he pursues a third Grand Slam title. The No. 1-ranked Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy, fell behind in the opening set and twice was a ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An injured Novak Djokovic quit after dropping the first set of his Australian Open semifinal against Alexander Zverev on Friday. Djokovic lost the opener 7-6 (5) in a tiebreaker and immediately walked around the net to concede the match to Zverev. Fans booed as Djokovic walked off toward the...

A nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani 's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the baseball star on a call with a bank as he attempted to transfer $200,000 for what he describes as a car loan, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The recording referenced in a court filing and obt...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during his confirmation process that The Associated Press has obtained. The answers were provided to Massachusetts De...

CHICAGO (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Trump called it "a great honor to sign this." "They should not have been prosecuted," he said as he signed pardons for "peaceful pro-life protester...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during his confirmation process that The Associated Press has obtained. The answers were provided to Massachusetts De...

CHICAGO (AP) - President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Trump called it "a great honor to sign this." "They should not have been prosecuted," he said as he signed pardons for "peaceful pro-life protester...

A suburban Seattle police officer was sentenced Thursday to over 16 years in prison for the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man he was trying to arrest for disorderly conduct, marking the first conviction under a Washington state law that made it easier to prosecute officers for on-duty killings. A jury found Auburn ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California bolstered funding to help the Los Angeles area recover from its recent deadly wildfires under a more than $2.5 billion fire relief package approved Thursday by the California Legislature. Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bills, which had bipartisan support, and now head to Demo...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump's first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA, the nation's pr...

ROME (AP) - Italy's highest court on Thursday confirmed a slander conviction against U.S. defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate's 2007 murder, a sensational case that polarized trial watchers on both sides of the Altlantic. Knox had appealed the conviction based on a European Court ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced Thursday that she will vote against confirming Pete Hegseth to lead Pentagon, becoming the first Republican to oppose one of President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks. The Alaska Republican's decision comes ahead of a crucial test vote to advance Hegseth's nomination toward ...

SEATTLE (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status. U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled in the case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illi...

LONDON (AP) - A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been sentenced to more than 50 years in prison. Judge Julian Goose said 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana "wanted to try and carry out mass murder of innocent, happy young girls." The judge said that ...