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Members of the District of Columbia National Guard standing next to an MATV vehicle scan the area as they patrol outside Union Station, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

DC National Guard troops have orders extended through December, official says

7:49 PM on Wednesday, September 3

District of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital have had their orders extended through December

Justice Department requests access to Dominion voting equipment used in Missouri in 2020

5:32 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country

FILE - New York Mayor Eric Adams arrives at his campaign launch rally at City Hall, June. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

NYC Mayor Eric Adams insists he isn't ending his reelection campaign

5:06 PM on Wednesday, September 3

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government

FILE - Peruvian former President Alejandro Toledo attends a court session in his corruption case in Lima, Peru, Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets a second sentence in the Odebrecht corruption scandal

4:58 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to prison time for the second time in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump extends his reach into Congress in ways large and small

4:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers

Brothers of Virginia Giuffre, Daniel Wilson, left, and Sky Roberts, second from left, Amanda Roberts, second from right, and Annie Farmer, right, listen during a Stand with Survivors Rally on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Publisher agrees to changes in Virginia Giuffre's memoir after family objections

4:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The publisher of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl," has finalized a draft with her family after they raised concerns

FILE - Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, speaks to reporters following closed-door strategy meetings, at the Capitol in Washington, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republicans are preparing to change Senate rules to speed Trump's nominees

4:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber’s rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once

FILE - Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, where the Tren de Aragua gang originated, in Tocorón, Venezuela, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

What to know about Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang as Trump justifies attack

3:42 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

FILE - Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., speaks during the opening session of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) Legislative Conference March 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Left and right are joining forces to ban lawmakers from trading stock

3:09 PM on Wednesday, September 3

It's an issue uniting the left and the right

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

2:46 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of over $2.6 billion in federal funding cuts to Harvard University

FILE - Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, April 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)

Democratic senator says classified meeting with intel agency is canceled after Loomer's criticism

2:30 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The top ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says a classified meeting planned with a key U.S. spy agency was called off after it was criticized by Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a news conference after meeting with community violence intervention (CVI) leaders at an emergency response training to prepare for federal deployments in Chicago, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Chicago prepares for an influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents

1:25 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Chicago residents are bracing for an influx of military patrols and immigration agents in the coming days

High ankle boots for women for export are kept for packing at Dawar leather footwear manufacturing unit in Agra, India, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India to cut taxes on hundreds of consumer goods to boost local demand following steep US tariffs

1:23 PM on Wednesday, September 3

India moves to cut taxes on hundreds of consumer goods ranging from air conditioners to small cars to bolster local consumption and cushion the economy from the blow of steep U.S. import tariffs

Mendenhall Glacier and Mendenhall Lake, shown here on Aug. 30, 2025, in Juneau, Alaska, are part of a recreation area that is popular with tourists and residents. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

A researcher is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier

12:21 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Authorities say a researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier

FILE - A malnourished child receives treatment at the Intersos facility, an Italian humanitarian organization, the only remaining facility providing in-patient services for malnutrition in Maiduguri, northeastern, Nigeria, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)

US approves $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger

12:19 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The United States has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger, in a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since President Donald Trump abruptly suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development

FILE - Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo gestures as speaks to supporters and members of the media before a bill signing by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

10:46 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases

Front from left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrive at a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

A summit and parade in China may signal a geopolitical shift. They might also be political jockeying

6:56 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even defiant, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it

A landslide has wiped out a village in Sudan's Darfur region, (AP Digital Embed)

About 100 bodies recovered from landslide-hit village in Sudan's Darfur as pope urges help

6:49 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about the relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: Trump suggests sending National Guard troops to New Orleans next

6:36 AM on Wednesday, September 3

President Donald Trump is suggesting that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard

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