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FILE - Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in Mineola, N.Y., March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo, File)

Trump endorses county executive for NY governor, days after longtime ally Stefanik suspends campaign

5:47 PM on Saturday, December 20

President Donald Trump says he’s endorsing Nassau County’s Republican executive for governor in next fall’s New York race

At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation

4:24 PM on Saturday, December 20

At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation

This photo released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows a hallway during a search of Jeffrey Epstein's home on July 6, 2019, in New York. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

2:54 PM on Saturday, December 20

The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released

In this photo, provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, front right, greets Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, before their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

Egypt's el-Sissi urges UN Security Council reforms for Africa's larger role

11:07 AM on Saturday, December 20

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has called for changes in the U.N. Security Council to give Africa a bigger role in global decisions

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva takes a sip of coffee during a year-end press conference at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil's Lula hopes EU-Mercosur trade deal will be signed in January

10:53 AM on Saturday, December 20

Brazil's President Lula da Silva hopes the Mercosur-EU free-trade deal will be signed in January, after it was delayed on Friday

A street scene in Allentown, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Steven Sloan)

Trump's 'A+++++' economy collides with reality in a Pennsylvania city critical to the midterms

8:03 AM on Saturday, December 20

Idalia Bisbal moved from New York City to Allentown, Pennsylvania, hoping for a cheaper life

People offer funeral prayers for leading Bangladeshi activist Sharif Osman Hadi, who died from gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in Dhaka earlier this month, outside the nation's Parliament complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh mourns slain activist as tensions rise ahead of elections

5:35 AM on Saturday, December 20

Hundreds of thousands of people have attended the funeral of a leading Bangladeshi activist, Sharif Osman Hadi, who died from gunshot wounds

FILE - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, and Bushra Bibi, his wife, speak to the media before signing documents to submit surety bond over his bails in different cases, at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)

Pakistani court sentences former Prime Minister Imran Khan and wife to 17 years in graft case

5:02 AM on Saturday, December 20

A Pakistani court has convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, sentencing them to 17 years in prison

FILE - A MONUSCO blue helmet deployed near Kibumba, north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Jan. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

UN urges Rwanda to leave eastern Congo and extends peacekeeping mission for a year

5:00 AM on Saturday, December 20

The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo for a year

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hands with Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)

Russian strike on Odesa kills 8 as US hosts a Kremlin envoy for talks on peace plan

3:03 AM on Saturday, December 20

A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa has killed eight people and wounded 27, according to Ukraine’s emergency service

Supporters of the ruling party LIBRE, Liberty and Refoundation, cheer their Presidential candidate Rixi Moncada in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Trump administration restricts 2 Honduran election officials' visas over special vote count

1:32 AM on Saturday, December 20

The Trump administration has restricted visas for two leftist Honduran election officials, citing interference in the Central American country’s special vote count

Uladzimir Labkovich, one of the released Belarusian prisoners and his wife Nina Labkovich smile as he arrives in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Prisoners freed by Belarus say their passports are taken away in a final 'dirty trick' by officials

12:15 AM on Saturday, December 20

Even though Belarus has released dozens of prisoners, those who've been freed say the authoritarian government often delivers one final act of repression by confiscating their passports before deporting them

Sonam Tashi shouts slogans during a demonstration to commemorate the anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule, in New Delhi, India, March, 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price

12:01 AM on Saturday, December 20

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems in Kenya

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth salute as carry teams move the transfer cases with the remains of Iowa National Guard soldiers Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, of Des Moines, Iowa, and civilian interpreter Ayad Mansoor Sakat, who were killed in an attack in Syria, during a casualty return, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

US military launches strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State fighters after American deaths

5:31 PM on Friday, December 19

The Trump administration has launched military strikes in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American interpreter almost a week ago

Today in History: December 20, the Louisiana Purchase is completed

12:12 PM on Monday, December 1

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