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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Coast Guard drops references to swastikas and nooses being 'potentially divisive'

4:35 PM on Thursday, December 18

References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” have been removed

FILE - The Colorado River runs through mountains near Burns, Colo., on April 12, 2023. (Chris Dillmann/Vail Daily via AP, File)

Colorado River water negotiators appear no closer to long-term agreement

3:51 PM on Thursday, December 18

Water leaders in the U.S. West gathered this week with a hefty task hanging over their heads — figuring out a long-term plan for sharing water from the Colorado River

FILE - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani listens as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mamdani appointee resigns after her decade-old antisemitic social media posts resurface

3:48 PM on Thursday, December 18

One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes

Florida man executed for the killings of a man and his girlfriend during a 1987 home invasion

3:26 PM on Thursday, December 18

Florida man executed for the killings of a man and his girlfriend during a 1987 home invasion

A sign on a road off of U.S. Highway 75 welcomes motorists to the Prairie Band Potawatomi reservation, outside Mayetta, Kan., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas tribe ends nearly $30 million deal with ICE

3:17 PM on Thursday, December 18

A Kansas tribe said it has walked away from a nearly $30 million federal contract to come up with preliminary designs for immigrant detention centers after facing a wave of online criticism

FILE - A photograph of Etan Patz hangs on an angel figurine at a makeshift memorial, May 28, 2012, in the Manhattan borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Prosecutors ask US Supreme Court to restore conviction in Etan Patz missing child case

3:13 PM on Thursday, December 18

Prosecutors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz

FILE - Barham Salih, President of Iraq addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York, on Sept. 23, 2021. (Timothy A. Clary/Pool Photo via AP, File)

UN elects former Iraqi President Barham Salih as head of refugee agency

3:02 PM on Thursday, December 18

The United Nations General Assembly has approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, its first from the Middle East since the late 1970s

Photos show farmers' protests during the EU Summit in Belgium

2:56 PM on Thursday, December 18

TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake

2:44 PM on Thursday, December 18

TikTok signs deal to sell US unit to American investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake

FILE - A medical marijuana plant grows at CRC on July 23, 2024, in Pike County, Ala. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

What to know about Trump's order seeking to relax federal drug policies for marijuana

2:37 PM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump has directed his administration to pursue reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug

FILE - A voter leaves Albion Town hall after casting their ballot on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, in Albion, Wis. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf, File)

US Justice Department sues 3 states, District of Columbia for voter data

2:08 PM on Thursday, December 18

The U.S. Justice Department has sued three states and the District of Columbia for not turning over requested voter information to the Trump administration

Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins speaks at her campaign headquarters Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Democrat Eileen Higgins sworn in as Miami's first female mayor after 30 years of GOP control

1:34 PM on Thursday, December 18

Eileen Higgins has been sworn in as Miami's first female mayor, taking office two weeks after defeating a Trump-endorsed Republican

Power poles along U.S. Highway 93 near Golden, Colo., snapped in half during a strong wind storm on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via AP)

Hurricane-force wind downs power lines, fans wildfires in Colorado with more on way

12:32 PM on Thursday, December 18

Work crews are mopping up but bracing for more after hurricane-force wind downed power lines and fanned wildfires along the Colorado Front Range and onto the Great Plains

FILE - Cleophus Cooksey Jr., accused of killing eight people over a three-week span in late 2017, listens during his trial in Maricopa County Superior Court, May 5, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP, Pool, File )

Arizona jury sentences man to death in string of killings in metro Phoenix during 2017

10:58 AM on Thursday, December 18

A jury has sentenced a man to death in six murders in metro Phoenix in 2017, but was undecided on the punishment for his convictions in the killings of his mother and stepfather

Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children

8:11 AM on Thursday, December 18

U.S. officials are proposing new restrictions that are designed to block access to gender-affirming care for minors

Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court for an evidence hearing, Thursday , Dec. 18, 2025, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)

A bag, a hoagie and a long wait for a ruling: What we learned at Luigi Mangione’s pretrial hearing

7:39 AM on Thursday, December 18

A three-week pretrial hearing on Mangione’s fight to exclude evidence from his New York murder case revealed new details about his December 2024 arrest in Altoona, Pennsylvania, steps prosecutors say he took to elude authorities for five days, and what he may have revealed about himself after he was taken into custody

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

The Latest: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children

5:40 AM on Thursday, December 18

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors

This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Frank Athen Walls. (Florida Department of Correction via AP)

Florida man executed for the killings of a man and his girlfriend during a home invasion

8:53 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A man convicted of killing a man and his girlfriend during a 1987 home invasion has been put to death in Florida

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

FACT FOCUS: Trump's glowing account of progress is at odds with his government's own stats

8:21 PM on Wednesday, December 17

President Donald Trump has offered a glowing account of progress under his watch in a speech from the White House

FILE - Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen greets state senators before giving a speech on June 2, 2025, in Lincoln, Neb. (Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement Trump's new Medicaid work requirements

8:58 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement new work requirements for some Medicaid recipients

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