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FILE - Protesters pour into the streets outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze, File)

A Russia-like crackdown in Georgia is targeting protesters, rights activists and the media

12:12 AM on Friday, October 3

Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies

Trump administration taps Army Reserve and National Guard for temporary immigration judges

12:04 AM on Friday, October 3

The Trump administration is tapping National Guard and Army Reserve lawyers to be temporary immigration judges after firing dozens of existing judges

FILE - An aircraft of India's budget airline IndiGo is serviced at Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore, India, Sept. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

India and China to resume direct flights after a 5-year suspension

11:48 PM on Thursday, October 2

India and China plan to resume direct flights between some of their cities after a five-year suspension

The Wahbeh family, who immigrated to Germany from Syria, sits along a river in Berlin on Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A decade after the refugee crisis that shook Europe, a Syrian family becomes German

9:36 PM on Thursday, October 2

A decade after 1 million migrants arrived in Germany from war-torn countries like Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, the country has changed

New Mexico Legislature approves bills to prop up rural health care, underwrite food assistance

7:26 PM on Thursday, October 2

New Mexico legislators moved quickly to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trump’s cuts in federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders, from left, Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., and Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., blame the government shutdown on Democrats during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The blame game is on at federal agencies, where political messages fault Democrats for the shutdown

6:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging

Fundraising groups step up to help reopen national park sites and welcome visitors

6:27 PM on Thursday, October 2

One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group

Lia Post, of Springfield, Neb., leaves a meeting of the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission, where she sobbed and begged its members to honor the will of the voters in approving comprehensive access to medical marijuana, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Lincoln, Neb. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

Nebraska Republicans are targeting voter-approved medical marijuana, following other GOP-led states

6:16 PM on Thursday, October 2

Nebraska officials have missed a deadline to grant licenses to marijuana growers under a new medical marijuana law approved by voters

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he answers questions during a meeting with foreign policy experts at the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin praises Trump but warns supplies of US long-range missiles to Ukraine will badly hurt ties

4:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield

California law caps at $100 most fines that can be levied by homeowners associations

3:49 PM on Thursday, October 2

A provision included in California housing legislation this year caps at $100 the fines that homeowners associations can levy to enforce regulations

FDA approves another generic abortion pill, prompting outrage from conservatives

3:48 PM on Thursday, October 2

Federal health officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill, prompting outrage from some abortion opponents aligned with President Donald Trump

FILE - The U.S. District Court is seen, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun. file)

ACLU seeks release of Michigan immigrant held in custody despite life-threatening leukemia

3:09 PM on Thursday, October 2

Lawyers say federal authorities are keeping a Michigan man in custody in a deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia

Trump says US is in 'armed conflict' with drug cartels after ordering strikes in the Caribbean

1:19 PM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict."

FILE - Residents walk along a sidewalk in Aracuai, Brazil, Oct. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazil’s lower house approves an increase in tax exemptions for low-income people

1:10 PM on Thursday, October 2

Brazil’s lower house has approved exempting up to 5,000 reais, or about $940, a month from income taxes

Trump administration cuts nearly $8B in clean energy projects in states that backed Harris

1:08 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion intended for clean energy projects across 16 states

People protest against corruption and calling for healthcare and education reform, in Casablanca, Morocco, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo)

Morocco's youth-led protests demand better schools and hospitals, prime minister resignation

11:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Youth-led demonstrators in Morocco took to the streets for a sixth straight night despite fear of violence after three people were killed by security forces

FILE - President Donald Trump silences his mobile phone in the Oval Office of the White House, May 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment

8:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats

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