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FILE - President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

After a year of Trump, EU leaders begrudgingly learn to live with the reality of an unreliable ally

10:31 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A timeline of Trump's fights with media, including the BBC and Jimmy Kimmel

8:08 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with news organizations over his time in office has led to a host of legal battles and disputes

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US military says strikes on 3 boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean kill 8 people

6:53 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people

Trump sues BBC for $10 billion, accusing it of defamation over editing of president's Jan. 6 speech

6:05 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Trump sues BBC for $10 billion, accusing it of defamation over editing of president's Jan. 6 speech

FILE - The Torrance County Detention Facility is seen, Sept. 29, 2022, in Estancia, N.M. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

Judge orders release of Iranian bodybuilder after nearly 5-month detention

5:09 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

A federal judge is ordering the release of an Iranian migrant and bodybuilder held by U.S. immigration authorities for over five months

FILE - A diving team and police boat is seen near a wreckage site in the Potomac River, from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Jan. 30, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Sen. Cruz wants restrictions on military flights approved soon to prevent another midair collision

4:26 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wants restrictions on military flights approved before government funding runs out at the end of next month to prevent another midair collision like the one near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, a lawyer on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal team who specializes in federal immigration cases, is interviewed in Fairfax, Va., Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Abrego Garcia is still hoping to find justice after his wrongful deportation, his lawyer says

3:41 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a significant issue in the Trump administration's immigration policies

Work continues on the construction of the ballroom at the White House, Tuesday, Dec., 9, 2025, in Washington, where the East Wing once stood. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is a matter of national security

2:28 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons

Supporters listen to Presidential candidate Jose Antonio Kast, of the opposition Republican Party, delivering his victory speech after winning the presidential runoff election in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Conservative Kast's victory in Chile suggests a hard-right, pro-Trump surge across Latin America

2:18 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump

FILE - Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

California hires ex-CDC leaders who were fired or quit under Trump

2:00 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

California is hiring former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to help launch a public health initiative in response to the Trump administration's changes to health guidance

Rob Reiner, from left, Michele Singer Reiner, Romy Reiner, Nick Reiner, Maria Gilfillan, and Jake Reiner arrive at the premiere of "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

The killings of Rob and Michele Reiner shatter family's gentle legacy

1:32 PM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The Reiner family, known for their positive influence in American culture, has faced a shocking tragedy

ADDITION ADDS MAIDEN NAME: FILE - Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner arrive on the red carpet at the State Department for the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner, Dec. 2, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Michele Singer Reiner, photographer who inspired 1980s rom-com's happy end, dies

10:43 AM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Photographer and movie producer Michele Singer Reiner has died

This undated combo photo created with images released by the Iowa National Guard shows Sgts. William Nathaniel Howard, left, and Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar. (Iowa National Guard via AP)

US Army names 2 Iowa National Guard members killed in attack in Syria

9:09 AM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria have been identified

A police officer blocks off a street near Rob Reiner's residence Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

The Latest: Rob Reiner's son booked for murder over stabbing of director and wife

7:56 AM on Monday, December 15, 2025

Nick Reiner, the younger son of director Rob Reiner, is in police custody following what investigators believe was a fatal stabbing of the director and his wife

President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Washington, en route to Baltimore to attend the Army-Navy football game. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Trump sues BBC for defamation, asks for $10 billion in damages over Jan. 6 speech edit

5:24 AM on Monday, December 15, 2025

President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices

The new head of Britain's MI6 Blaise Metreweli makes her first public speech in London, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,pool)

Britain’s MI6 spy chief says Putin is dragging out peace talks and wants to subjugate Ukraine

12:17 AM on Monday, December 15, 2025

The head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency says Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war.”

People walk in a smog-covered morning in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Piyush Nagpal)

Toxic smog blankets New Delhi, disrupting travel and plunging air quality to hazardous levels

11:08 PM on Sunday, December 14, 2025

Dense toxic smog has blanketed New Delhi, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks and disrupting travel

This courtroom sketch depicts Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan in court on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wis. (Adela Tesnow via AP, Pool)

Milwaukee judge on trial for aiding immigrant told staffer she'd take 'the heat'

8:40 PM on Sunday, December 14, 2025

Prosecutors played audio recordings to show jurors that a Wisconsin judge knew what was at stake when she directed an immigrant to a private door while federal agents were in the courthouse to arrest him

Retired Chinese cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, from left, Jimmy Lai's wife Teresa Lai and Jimmy Lai's son Augustin Lai arrive at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts ahead of the verdict for Hong Kong activist publisher Jimmy Lai's national security trial in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial

4:24 PM on Sunday, December 14, 2025

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court

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