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ESG Achievement Awards 2024/2025 Winners Announced

11:00 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Katherine Carreño stands for a portrait Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

Key findings of an AP analysis examining federal prosecutions of protesters

9:09 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The Justice Department has embarked on a months-long effort to prosecute people accused of assaulting federal officers while protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies

FILE - People walk through smog in New Delhi, India, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Piyush Nagpal, File)

Unreliable data mask just how bad the air quality crisis is in India

6:14 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

India’s air-quality crisis is deepened by unreliable data

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives to brief members of Congress on military strikes near Venezuela, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US military says strike on alleged drug boat kills 4 in eastern Pacific

6:05 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The U.S. military says it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people

Senator pauses Coast Guard nomination over policy on swastikas, nooses and other hate symbols

5:00 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

A U.S. senator says she's pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed

US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington

3:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer addresses the media during a news conference, Sept. 29, 2025, in Grand Blanc Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Court blocks Michigan ban on conversion therapy on free speech grounds

3:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

A federal appeals court has blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors

President Donald Trump looks over after stepping off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump demands Venezuela pay for seized US oil assets after calling for 'blockade'

3:44 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

President Donald Trump is demanding Venezuela pay for assets that Trump says were stolen from U.S. companies when the South American country nationalized its oil industry years ago

FILE - Dan Bongino, FBI deputy director, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau's No 2 official

2:28 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he’ll resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host

Activists confronted a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the largely Somali neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Minneapolis police chief criticizes ICE tactics after clash with protesters

2:05 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Minneapolis' police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters on Monday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walks to the auditorium to brief members of Congress on military strikes near Venezuela at the Capitol, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

House rejects resolutions to limit Trump's campaign against Venezuela and drug cartels

1:23 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The House has rejected a pair of resolutions that would put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela

The sun sets behind an oil pump jack near Loving, N.M., on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

States brace for Trump's push to make oil drilling cheap again

12:01 PM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico

New plaques of explanatory text have been placed underneath presidential portraits on the Colonnade at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Sleepy. Divisive. A fan of young Trump: A look at the new plaques on the Presidential Walk of Fame

11:33 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame

A vendor sells inflatables on Macuto beach in Venezuela, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

The oil blockade threat creates anxiety in Venezuela but people stick to their daily lives

10:32 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump's announced blockade on sanctioned Venezuelan oil could lead to shortages of food, fuel, and other basic goods in the Latin American nation

FILE - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

New York is set to legalize medically assisted suicide with 'guardrails,' governor says

7:44 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill

FILE - Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

4 Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies

7:34 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care

President Donald Trump speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump addresses the American public in a live speech from the White House

5:23 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has delivered a speech where he discussed his achievements and touched on some of his agenda for next year and beyond

Former Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith enters a room in the Rayburn House Office Building to give his deposition before the House Judiciary Committee, part of its oversight into DOJ investigations into President Donald Trump, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Jack Smith tells lawmakers his team developed 'proof beyond a reasonable doubt' against Trump

2:02 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith has told lawmakers in a closed-door interview his team “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” President Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss

President Donald Trump salutes as a Army carry team moves the flag-draped transfer case with the remains of Iowa National Guard soldier Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, during a casualty return, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump pays respects to 2 Iowa National Guardsmen and interpreter killed in Syria as they return home

9:07 PM on Tuesday, December 16, 2025

President Donald Trump has paid his respects to two Iowa National Guard members and a U.S. civilian who were killed in an attack in Syria last weekend

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