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FILE - Parishioners of Notre Dame d'Haiti process outside the Catholic church during a Lent faith event that reenacted the biblical story of the Red Sea passage March 29, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto, File)

US faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead

7:14 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Faith leaders across the United States face challenges as they support anxious immigrants

New 2026 laws are among the first of their kind to tackle climate change, drunken driving

7:09 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The new year will begin with some first-of-their-kind laws in several states

FILE - In this May 2, 1949 file photo, a column of Chinese Communist light tanks enter the streets of Peking, which are filled with people watching the conquerors pass with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists losing the Chinese civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists and retreating from the Chinese mainland to the island of Taiwan. (AP Photo, File)

Key dates in Taiwan’s history: A contested island's evolution

6:04 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

China has been staging live-fire military drills around Taiwan featuring aircraft, warships and rocket launches

In this image made from video provided by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, Russia's Oreshnik missile system is seen during a training in an undisclosed location in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia's nuclear-capable Oreshnik missiles have entered active service, Moscow says

3:53 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says, as negotiators continue to search for a breakthrough in peace talks to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine

The sun sets over the graves of more than 8.300 WWII soldiers at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, where the American Battle Monuments Commission removed two displays honoring Black liberators from the visitors center. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash

1:15 AM on Tuesday, December 30, 2025

The American Cemetery in the Dutch village of Margraten has become a flashpoint over the removal of displays honoring Black soldiers

FILE - Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia waves to supporters after she was arrested, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sept. 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Pavel Rahman, File)

Khaleda Zia, former Bangladeshi prime minister and archrival of a previous premier, dies at 80

8:51 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at 80, her political party has announced Tuesday

A Bangladesh Nationalist Party statement says former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at age 80

8:43 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

A Bangladesh Nationalist Party statement says former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at age 80

FILE - A police officer walks by a monument honoring 150 years of the Chinese community in Panama City, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

Beijing condemns the demolition of a monument honoring the Chinese community in Panama

7:58 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

China has condemned the demolition of a monument honoring the Chinese community in Panama, the latest development as the Trump administration pushes for the Central American nation to distance itself from Beijing

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US military carries out 30th strike on alleged drug boat

6:18 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

The U.S. military says it has conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people

Alicia Johnson to become first Black woman elected to Georgia's Public Service Commission

6:11 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Alicia Johnson will become the first Black woman elected to a statewide post in Georgia that isn't a judgeship

FILE - Cynthia Erivo arrives at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Hollywood stars Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo recognized in New Year's honor's list

5:33 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Britons ranging from Hollywood stars Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo to a 102-year-old judo instructor have been named in King Charles III’s New Year’s honors list, an annual tradition that recognizes people for their contributions to U.K. public life

FILE - Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, speaks during an event about drug prices with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump administration rolls out rural health funding, with strings attached

5:17 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

The Trump administration has announced the initial disbursement from its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program

Nevada casinos, lawmakers eager to reverse change in gambling tax deductions

4:36 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Congress can’t change a policy that will tax gamblers on money they didn’t win before it goes into effect, but lawmakers are hoping for a fix early in 2026

Victims' families demand answers in deadly Mexico train crash as authorities promise to investigate

3:16 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Survivors and families of the victims of a deadly train crash in southern Mexico are demanding answers as the government vows to investigate what caused a train to derail on a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico

Shamans hold photos of U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)

Peruvian shamans predict Maduro's fall, continued global conflicts in 2026

3:12 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered in front of the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital city to carry out an annual ritual in which they make predictions for the upcoming year

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Homeland Security says a fraud investigation is underway in Minneapolis

3:02 PM on Monday, December 29, 2025

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says that federal Homeland Security officials are conducting a fraud investigation in Minneapolis

US pledges $2 billion for UN humanitarian aid as Trump warns agencies must 'adapt or die'

12:10 AM on Monday, December 29, 2025

The United States has announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance funding

In this image taken off video, a Taiwan fighter jet lands at the Hsinchu Airbase in Taiwan on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Wu Taijing)

Chinese military drills around Taiwan resume for a second day, aimed at warning 'external forces'

8:10 PM on Sunday, December 28, 2025

The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and missile units for a second day to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces

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