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Pope Leo XIV holds up a baby as he greets faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope highlights virtue of listening while accepting award from US Augustinians

5:27 PM on Thursday, August 28

Pope Leo XIV praises the virtue of listening before speaking as he receives an award from his Augustinian religious order in the United States

Judge rejects Saudi Arabia's bid to dismiss claims it supported 9/11 hijackers

4:49 PM on Thursday, August 28

A federal judge in New York has rejected Saudi Arabia's latest effort to dismiss civil claims that it supported the 9/11 hijackers

FILE - Micki Witthoeft, center, mother of Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot by police inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, joins protesters outside of the Supreme Court on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, assault on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

US offers military funeral honors to Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt

4:48 PM on Thursday, August 28

The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt

US seeks UN authorization for new 'Gang Suppression Force' to tackle escalating violence in Haiti

3:18 PM on Thursday, August 28

The United States is seeking U.N. authorization for a new “Gang Suppression Force” to help tackle escalating violence in Haiti where the armed groups have expanded their brutal activities from the capital into the countryside

FILE - The family of Ethan Chapin, including mother Stacy Chapin, right, and father Jim Chapin, walk to the Ada County Courthouse for Bryan Kohberger's plea deal hearing, on July 2, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Families of Bryan Kohberger's murder victims ask an Idaho judge to block graphic crime scene photos

2:57 PM on Thursday, August 28

The families of two of the four murdered University of Idaho students have asked a judge to prevent the release of graphic crime scene photos and videos, saying the images are traumatizing and violate their privacy

DC man seen throwing sandwich at agent charged with misdemeanor after grand jury declines indictment

2:51 PM on Thursday, August 28

A man captured on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington has been charged with a misdemeanor after prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to return a more serious felony indictment, according to court papers filed Thursday

A cyclist rides past East High School in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

US Education Department says Denver school's all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX

2:17 PM on Thursday, August 28

The U.S. Education Department says Denver Public Schools violated Title IX protections against sex-based discrimination in education by creating all-gender bathrooms and allowing students to use bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity

Route 61 runs through Newbern, Ala., population 133 people, on July 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Alabama town's first Black mayor, who had been locked out of office, wins election

12:21 PM on Thursday, August 28

The first Black mayor of an Alabama town has won election by a landslide, four years after he ran unopposed and white residents locked him out of the town hall

FILE - A wildland fire crew looks on after setting a fire line on Harlow Ridge above the Lick Creek Fire, July 12, 2021, south of Asotin, Wash. (Pete Caster/Lewiston Tribune via AP, File)

2 firefighters battling Washington state wildfire arrested by Border Patrol

12:09 PM on Thursday, August 28

Two firefighters were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents during a criminal investigation into two contractors who had provided a 44-person crew to help fight a Washington state wildfire

Departures roil the CDC leadership. What's next for the agency?

11:33 AM on Thursday, August 28

Operations at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are in jeopardy after the ousting of the CDC director and the resignation of several high-profile agency leaders

FILE - Providence Municipal Court Judge Frank Caprio sits on the bench in Providence, R.I., Aug. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)

Judge Frank Caprio's death leaves mourners remembering his compassion that drew many online fans

5:23 AM on Thursday, August 28

People from all over the world are expected to pay tribute to Frank Caprio, a retired Rhode Island municipal judge who found online fame as an empathetic jurist and host of “Caught in Providence.”

This home in a suburb of Richmond, Va., is listed as the headquarters of Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that won a contract from the Trump administration worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what is expected to be the nation’s largest immigrant detention facility inside a U.S. Army base in Texas. Property records show the house belongs to Kenneth A. Wagner, the president and CEO of the company. (AP Photo/Alan Suderman)

Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

4:34 AM on Thursday, August 28

President Donald Trump's administration has awarded a $1.2 billion contract to a tiny Virginia company to build and operate what's expected to become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex at Fort Bliss in Texas

Man convicted of triple murder put to death in record 11th execution in Florida this year

8:45 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him money has been put to death in Florida

Tim and Katharine Barr kneel and pray at a memorial at Annunciation Catholic Church after Wednesday's school shooting, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

What we know about the shooter who killed 2 and wounded 18 in Minneapolis

5:54 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The shooter who fired into a Minneapolis Catholic school’s church was quiet, often alone and seemed to resent school as an eighth grader there seven years ago

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