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Sister Norma Pimentel (second left to right) speaks during a panel on the effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants held at Georgetown University in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao)

US Catholic bishops decry Trump's immigration raids upending church life

11:00 AM on Friday, September 12

Some of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America’s immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration’s hard-line policies

Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United States, poses in Sonoma County, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Former poet laureate Ada Limón says artists must band together during 'dangerous times'

10:39 AM on Friday, September 12

The 24th U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón says she encountered a surprising number of people who are writing and sharing poetry during her travels around the country

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem addresses the media during a visit to the Port of Antwerp in Antwerp, Belgium, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Judge tells Trump to update immigration website for Venezuelans with temporary protected status

10:19 AM on Friday, September 12

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to update its immigration services website to reflect 600,000 Venezuelans with temporary protected status are legally allowed to live and work in the United States

A woman and her kids sit at a school sheltering displaced Syrian Bedouins from the Sweida region, forced from their homes after clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin groups, in the village of Abtaa in rural Daraa, Syria, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

UN trying to help move Syria's displaced from schools ahead of the start of schoolyear

10:11 AM on Friday, September 12

The United Nations is trying to help move displaced Syrians who have been sheltering in schools in a southwestern province that was engulfed in sectarian clashes this summer to alternative housing ahead of the start of the new schoolyear

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at a news conference, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Lindsay Wasson)

Utah's governor, in impassioned remarks, urges Americans to find 'off-ramp' from political violence

9:41 AM on Friday, September 12

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is making an impassioned plea for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division

FILE - An employee surveys the damage at the Great Outdoor Provision Co. after it was flooded during tropical storm Chantal, Monday, July 7, 28, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, file)

Trump approves federal disaster aid for storms and flooding in 6 states

8:58 AM on Friday, September 12

President Donald Trump has approved federal disaster aid for six states and tribes following storms and floods this spring and summer

FILE - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Sushila Karki, right, observes a minute's silence during Democracy Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Feb. 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

Nepal's president appoints former chief justice as interim premier and first woman leader

8:39 AM on Friday, September 12

Nepal’s president has appointed former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as interim prime minister, the first woman to head the South Asian country’s government, following massive protests that collapsed the previous administration

FILE - South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar speaks to the media about the situation in South Sudan following a peace agreement the week before with the government, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Aug. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Concern grows for safety of South Sudan opposition leader facing treason and other charges

7:55 AM on Friday, September 12

Amnesty International has called for a public trial for South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar, who faces treason and other charges

President Donald Trump gestures to people during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

The Latest: Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns

6:53 AM on Friday, September 12

President Donald Trump says he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor

A spotted lanternfly flies past President Donald Trump as he boards Air Force One, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., to travel to New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says he’ll send National Guard to Memphis, escalating his use of troops in US cities

6:30 AM on Friday, September 12

President Donald Trump says he'll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor

Smoke rises from an explosion, allegedly caused by an Israeli strike, in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (UGC via AP)

UAE summons Israeli diplomat to condemn the attack on Qatar targeting Hamas leaders

5:40 AM on Friday, September 12

The United Arab Emirates has summoned Israel's envoy to condemn Israel's attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., listens during a news conference after a policy luncheon at the Capitol, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Schumer warns of a shutdown if Republicans don’t accept Democrats’ health care demands

4:33 AM on Friday, September 12

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to risk a government shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accept Democratic demands on health care

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, left, shakes hands with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper upon her arrival at a railway station, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Sept. 12, 2025. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Pool Photo via AP)

NATO flexes its muscles and bulks up defenses on its eastern flank to ward off Russia

4:12 AM on Friday, September 12

NATO says it's bulking up its defensive posture on its eastern flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine with new equipment

Enio Kaso, head of the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency Licensing shows the AI "minister" Diella, whose name means "Sun" in Albanian, during a conference call in Tirana, Albania, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Albania's prime minister appoints an AI-generated 'minister' to tackle corruption

3:51 AM on Friday, September 12

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama says his new Cabinet will include an artificial intelligence “minister” in charge of fighting corruption

People place lit candles below a photo of Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA who was shot and killed, at a vigil in his memory, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Suspect in Charlie Kirk assassination expressed opposition to conservative activist's views

Friday, September 12

The man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk had expressed opposition to the conservative activist’s viewpoints and indicated that he was responsible for the shooting

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at a news conference, as Utah department of public safety commissioner Beau Mason, left, and FBI Director Kash Patel listens, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025, in Orem, Utah,(AP Photo/Lindsay Wasson)

What to know about the killing of Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA

7:54 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Utah man in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

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