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Top immigration enforcement official reassigned amid frustrations over mass deportation effort

WASHINGTON (AP) - The top official in charge of carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda has been reassigned amid concerns that the deportation effort isn't moving fast enough. H...

Feb 21, 2025

Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to pull thousands of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers off the job. U.S. District Judge Carl N...

Feb 21, 2025

LA mayor dismisses fire chief over response to most destructive wildfire in city history last month

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city's fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for a potential ...

Feb 21, 2025

Man is seriously injured in attack at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, police say

BERLIN (AP) - An assailant seriously injured a man in an attack at Berlin's Holocaust Memorial on Friday evening, police said. German media reported that the man was stabbed. Police said they were inv...

Feb 21, 2025

Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is...

Feb 21, 2025

Jurors begin deliberating in the trial of a man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Jurors began deliberating Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with stabbing and trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage. The jury got the case after...

Feb 21, 2025

Pope Francis' doctor says pontiff isn't out of danger but that his condition isn't life-threatening

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis' condition isn't life-threatening, but he's not out of danger, his medical team said Friday as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in a hospital with pneumonia on to...

Feb 21, 2025

New York Yankees drop ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner

TAMPA. Fla. (AP) - The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner. Current owner Hal Steinbrenner, son of The Boss, announced the c...

Feb 21, 2025

Israel identifies remains of child hostages but says body Hamas returned was not their mother

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Forensic scientists identified the remains of two Israeli child hostages handed over by Hamas but another body said to be their mother was "an anonymous, unidentified body," th...

Feb 20, 2025

Judge won't immediately block Trump administration’s abrupt halt to Catholic refugee funding

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday refused to block the Trump administration's abrupt halt to funding of the nation's largest private refugee resettlement program in a setback to the U.S. C...

Feb 20, 2025