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New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will not end his reelection campaign

2:15 PM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will not end his reelection campaign

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro walks outside the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Prosecutors drop federal case against woman accused of threatening to kill Trump

2:13 PM on Friday, September 5

Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

US and EU plan to discuss new Russia sanctions: What could be next for Putin?

1:22 PM on Friday, September 5

European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions

FILE - Correctional Officer Jose Sandoval inspects one of the more than 2,000 cell phones confiscated from inmates at California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville, Calif., April 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

FCC taking steps that would allow US prisons to jam prisoners' cellphone signals

1:12 PM on Friday, September 5

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

FILE - Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., speaks during the confirmation hearing for Kash Patel, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

National conservatism asserts its dominance in Trump's Washington

11:22 AM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

Gov. Brian Kemp speaks before signing the budget bill at the Capitol in Atlanta on Crossover Day, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Arvin Temkar /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Georgia sends troops to DC in sign that Trump's policing push will continue

11:09 AM on Friday, September 5

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

President Irfaan Ali, seeking another term, and his wife Arya Ali show their inked fingers after voting during general elections in Leonora, Guyana, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Guyana's president leads following general election in country awash in oil and gas wealth

10:13 AM on Friday, September 5

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, who has poured some of the South American country’s new oil wealth into popular social programs, is poised to serve a second term after this week's election, according to preliminary results Friday

Belarus detains Polish Carmelite monk for alleged spying

9:38 AM on Friday, September 5

Belarus has detained a Polish monk on suspicion of espionage, the latest escalation in Minsk's long-running standoff with its NATO member neighbor

FILE - Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry speaks to reporters outside "Camp 57," a facility to house immigration detainees at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., Wednesday, with Attorney General Pam Bondi, , left, and ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan, partially visible right, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Louisiana governor pays fine and discloses $13K in unreported free trips in deal to end ethics probe

9:23 AM on Friday, September 5

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the state’s attorney general

Syntia Caceres talks on the phone to her son, who was detained in the U.S. in July and her four-year-old granddaughter Aurore was placed in foster care in Georgia state, at her home in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Deported Venezuelan mothers ask Melania Trump to help reunite them with their children

8:31 AM on Friday, September 5

Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers are appealing to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children

FILE - The Google logo sits on the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., July 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google hit with $3.5 billion fine from European Union in ad-tech antitrust case

8:19 AM on Friday, September 5

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, centre background, leads a cabinet meeting to discuss the army plan for disarming Hezbollah, at the Presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Shiite ministers walk out as Lebanon's Cabinet debates army plan to disarm Hezbollah

6:43 AM on Friday, September 5

Lebanon’s Cabinet has met to discuss a plan by the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah and consolidate weapons under state control

FILE - Angela Rayner, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister, attends the South by SouthWest London (SXSW London), a culture, technology and creativity festival in Shoreditch, London, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)

Starmer overhauls his government after his deputy prime minister resigns over a tax error

4:15 AM on Friday, September 5

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has shaken up his Cabinet after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned over a tax error

In this photo released by the Roscongress Foundation, Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he speaks at the plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. ( Stepan Pugachev/Roscongress Foundation via AP)

Putin says foreign troops deployed to Ukraine would be legitimate targets

12:30 AM on Friday, September 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, particularly while its invasion is still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow's forces

ADDS NAMES: Emmalynn Lytal, center, points to a photo button of her sister, Kellyane Lytal, as she and other family of children who died at Camp Mystic visit with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, before he signed camp safety bills into law, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

New Texas laws ban youth cabins in floodways, require camp safety plans

9:04 PM on Thursday, September 4

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing

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