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Coyote killing contest regulations approved by Nevada lawmakers

12:44 PM on Thursday, December 18

Nevada lawmakers have finalized a state regulation for controversial coyote killing competitions on an 7-5 vote

The Illinois Accountability Commission listens to a witness' account during the first hearing at Arturo Velasquez Institute at Richard J. Daley College in the Lower West Side of Chicago, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Illinois panel's first meeting over federal misconduct focuses on chemical agents

12:14 PM on Thursday, December 18

A commission formed to document alleged harassment and abuse by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area has focused its first public hearing on the wide use of chemical agents

FILE - Cars drive past data centers that house computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, such as artificial intelligence, in Ashburn, Virginia, July 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

House backs bill to speed permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects

12:11 PM on Thursday, December 18

The House has approved bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects and limiting judicial review

FILE -- A banner hangs during a ceremony announcing a proposed $300 million expansion of Google's data center operations Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in Lithia Springs, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

Feds pave the way for Big Tech to plug data centers right into power plants in scramble for energy

12:00 PM on Thursday, December 18

Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff attends a meeting with Ukrainian officials Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Hallandale Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Witkoff to host new Gaza talks as Israel-Hamas ceasefire appears stalled

11:50 AM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump’s key peace envoy will host new Gaza talks with Arab and Muslim officials on Friday in Miami, a State Department official tells the AP

Britain names new ambassador to the US to replace diplomat with Jeffrey Epstein links

11:45 AM on Thursday, December 18

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed Christian Turner as the new ambassador to the United States

President Donald Trump displays an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

11:06 AM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

Trump's hand-picked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says

10:28 AM on Thursday, December 18

Trump's hand-picked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says

FILE - Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

House Democrats release more photos from Epstein's estate

10:11 AM on Thursday, December 18

House Democrats have released several dozen more photos from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Patients sit outside the malnutrition ward of Bunj Hospital in Maban, South Sudan, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)

South Sudan's peace guarantors warn against renewed violence

9:55 AM on Thursday, December 18

Three governments that were central in South Sudan’s peace process have urged leaders to end renewed fighting and focus on implementing the peace agreement that ended a deadly conflict

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9:50 AM on Thursday, December 18

FILE - Migrants, who arrived recently at the island of Crete, are held under guard at a temporary shelter in the village of Agia, near Chania, on the island of Crete, southern Greece, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Giannis Angelakis, File)

EU to slash asylum cases from 7 nations deemed safe

9:41 AM on Thursday, December 18

The European Union has decided to reduce asylum claims from seven nations by considering them safe countries of origin

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio talks to the press at the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Rubio hits 2 more International Criminal Court judges with sanctions over Israel prosecutions

8:59 AM on Thursday, December 18

President Donald Trump's administration has imposed sanctions on two more International Criminal Court judges over their role in investigating Israeli officials for possible war crimes

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 has a place in NYC history. But which place in a centuries-long list of mayors?

8:59 AM on Thursday, December 18

Zohran Mamdani can claim multiple firsts when he becomes New York’s mayor Jan. 1

In this photo provided by Belarusian Presidential Press Service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko addresses the meeting of the All-Belarusian People's Assembly in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025.(Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Belarusian leader says Russia deployed its latest nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile to the country

8:24 AM on Thursday, December 18

Belarus’ authoritarian president says that Russia had deployed its latest nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system to the country, a move that comes as talks to end the war in Ukraine have entered a crucial phase

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a year-end press conference at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil's Lula vows to veto bill that could reduce Bolsonaro's prison sentence

5:56 AM on Thursday, December 18

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva says he will veto a bill that could reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year prison sentence

Sidney Reid, 44, of Washington, poses for a portrait near where she was arrested while protesting immigration detentions, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled

9:03 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The Justice Department has embarked on a monthslong effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers during protests of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies

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