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Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Terrance Cole speaks during a television interview outside the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Terry Cole, chosen to take over DC's police force, has spent 22 years at DEA

7:42 PM on Thursday, August 14

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to be Washington’s “emergency police commissioner” as she carries out President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to take over the Washington police department

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks during a ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

South Korea’s president vows to restore 2018 inter-Korean military agreement to ease tensions

7:38 PM on Thursday, August 14

South Korea’s new liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, says he will seek to restore a 2018 military agreement with North Korea aimed at reducing border tensions and urged Pyongyang to respond to Seoul’s efforts to rebuild trust and revive dialogue

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5:25 PM on Thursday, August 14

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Department of Homeland Security Investigations agents join Washington Metropolitan Police Department officers as they conduct traffic checks at a checkpoint along 14th Street in northwest Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

In Washington police takeover, federal agents and National Guard take on new tasks

4:38 PM on Thursday, August 14

Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers or cyber criminals have fanned out across the nation’s capital

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announces upgraded charges against Vance Boelter, who is accused of killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and wounding a state senator and his wife, in Minneapolis, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Upgraded charges filed against Minnesota man accused of killing lawmaker, wounding another

3:06 PM on Thursday, August 14

A Minnesota man accused of killing a top Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another is now facing new and upgraded state charges

Blackwater founder to deploy nearly 200 personnel to Haiti as gang violence soars

2:40 PM on Thursday, August 14

The security firm of former U.S. Navy Seal Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 personnel from various countries to Haiti, where gang violence is escalating

Judge strikes down Trump administration guidance against diversity programs at schools and colleges

2:09 PM on Thursday, August 14

A federal judge has struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities

CORRECTS DAY Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks to journalists during a press conference about new settlement construction in the Israel-occupied West Bank near Maale Adumim, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel announces a settlement project that critics say will effectively cut the West Bank in two

2:34 AM on Thursday, August 14

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Putin praises Trump's efforts to end Ukraine war ahead of Friday summit in Alaska

1:17 AM on Thursday, August 14

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine, more than three years after Moscow launched its invasion, as the two leaders prepared for a pivotal U.S.–Russia summit Friday in Alaska

George M., who has been living at a tent encampment, packs up his tent, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DC's homeless pack up as sweeps are expected. What we know about Trump's plan to clear encampments

10:25 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents are packing their belongings before an expected sweep to clear out remaining encampments around the nation’s capital

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