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National Guard patrol the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Trump administration halts all asylum decisions and pauses issuing visas for people with Afghan passports

By Cedar Attanasio, Collin Binkley, and others

FILE The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier leaves Naval Station Norfolk, June 23, 2025, in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/John Clark, File)

The most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean as Trump adds to the growing fleet of warships near Venezuela

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press

Family at home stressed

Meet the military families anxious about whether their next paychecks will arrive: ‘It’s almost like the service is taken for granted’

By The Associated Press and Ben Finley

The American aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, on its way into the Oslofjord, at Drobak in Norway, Sept. 12, 2025.

Trump’s decision to sail aircraft carrier to South America will leave the Mideast and Europe with none during a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

By Ben Finley, Konstantin Toropin, and others

U.S. military senior leadership listen as President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Va.

Trump says U.S. cities should be ‘training grounds’ for the military to fight an ‘invasion from within’ during unusual speech to generals

By Ben Finley, Konstantin Toropin, and others

Buckingham Nicks

Before Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham made a cult classic. Now they’re reuniting for a reissue

By Ben Finley, Kristin M. Hall, and others

This courtroom sketch depicts Kilmar Abrego Garcia sitting in court during his detention hearing on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (Diego Fishburn via AP)

DOJ says Kilmar Abrego Garcia will face trial on federal smuggling charges before it tries to deport him again

By Ben Finley, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Protesters gather outside the Federal Courthouse before arguments whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from jail on Friday, June 13, 2025 in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Judge will order Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s pre-trial release but ICE plans to detain him and possibly try to deport him again

By Travis Loller, Ben Finley, and others

In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

ICE admits Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison was deported by ‘administrative error’

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press

And there’s snow too: Pedestrians cross a snowy street in downtown Kansas City, Mo., as a winter storm passed through the area on Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Heavy rains, strong winds threaten California’s burn zones as ‘atmospheric river’ looms

By Ben Finley, John Raby, and others

A man wearing Dodgers apparel stands with a Mega Millions lottery ticket he purchased from a convenience store

The Mega Millions jackpot is now over $1 billion—and experts say larger payouts are on the horizon once ticket prices increase next year

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press

NORAD volunteers track Santa, sitting around the table wearing headsets

NORAD’s Santa tracker, now used by millions, started as a morale booster during the Cold War

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press

woman lays out tarot cards on table

Offering psychic services in this city could’ve landed you in jail. But the ban was just lifted as fortune telling becomes a $2.3 billion industry

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press

Baltimore County Police Chief

Disgruntled high school athletic director uses AI to clone principal’s voice in racist, antisemitic deep fake

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press

Robert McCullough

An athletic director used AI to fake a high school principal’s racist tirade, and police say state laws need to catch up

By Ben Finley and The Associated Press