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Brazilian police accuse ex-President Bolsonaro of planning to flee to Argentina seeking asylum

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Police in Brazil say messages found on former President Jair Bolsonaro's telephone showed that he wanted to flee to Argentina and request political asylum from President Javier...

Aug 20, 2025

Texas' Republican-controlled House approves new maps to create more winnable GOP congressional seats

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Republicans on Wednesday took the first step toward approving new congressional maps that would give their party as many as five new seats in the House of Representatives, s...

Aug 20, 2025

Appeals court allows Trump to end temporary protections for migrants from Central America and Nepal

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and stayed a lower court's order keeping in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central Amer...

Aug 20, 2025

Gabbard slashing intelligence office workforce by 40%, cutting budget by more than $700 million

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Office of National Intelligence will dramatically reduce its workforce and cut its budget by more than $700 million annually, the Trump administration announced Wednesday. Direct...

Aug 20, 2025

Judge denies Justice Department request to unseal Epstein grand jury transcripts

NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge in New York who presided over the sex trafficking case against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein has rejected the government's request to unseal grand jury transcripts...

Aug 20, 2025

Israel approves settlement project that could divide West Bank

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel gave final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and rights gr...

Aug 20, 2025

Bus crash in Afghanistan kills more than 70 Afghans returning from Iran

A bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan killed at least 79 people returning from Iran, including 19 children, an official said. Two people were also injured in the crash, Ministry of Interior spokespe...

Aug 20, 2025

Israeli military will call up 50,000 reservists as it plans new phase of war in Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli military official said on Wednesday that the country's top generals had approved plans to begin a new phase of operations in some of Gaza's most densely populated areas. Sp...

Aug 20, 2025

Florida man executed for the 1982 killing of a woman abducted from an insurance office

STARKE, Fla. (AP) - A man convicted of abducting a woman from a Florida Panhandle insurance office and killing her was executed Tuesday evening. Kayle Bates, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. follo...

Aug 19, 2025

National Guard troops from four states begin arriving in DC

WASHINGTON (AP) - National Guard members from West Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana began arriving in Washington on Tuesday to assist in President Donald Trump's federal crackdown o...

Aug 19, 2025