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In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, as armed forces commander listen, at rear, in a ceremony meeting a group of officials, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran says it is open to talks about concerns about militarization of its nuclear program

Iran says it would consider negotiations with the United States if talks were confined to concerns about the militarization of the country’s nuclear program. A day earlier, Iran’s Supreme Leader … more

By The Associated Press | 3/10/25

U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and NAACP President Derick Johnson, from left, march across the Edmund Pettus bridge during the 60th anniversary of the march to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote, Sunday, March 9, 2025, in Selma, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Bloody Sunday Commemoration

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3/10/25

FILE - Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, right, appears in U.S. District Court in Boston, Friday, April 14, 2023. (Margaret Small via AP)

Court-martial hearing set to begin for Pentagon leaker already facing years behind bars

Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for leaking highly classified military documents, is facing a military court-martial on … more

By MICHAEL CASEY | 3/10/25

FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted of murder in the 2002 killing of Ted Price in Maricopa County, Ariz. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

An Arizona prisoner whose execution is coming up isn't asking for a reprieve

A prisoner scheduled to be executed in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in over two years will not ask for a reprieve from his death sentence. Aaron Brian Gunches is not … more

By JACQUES BILLEAUD | 3/10/25

Vanessa Kirby poses for photographers at the photo call for the Givenchy Fall/Winter 2025-2026 Womenswear collection presented in Paris, Friday, March 7, 2025. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Paris Fashion Week Celebrities

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3/9/25

Rows of toilet cubicles form runway set for Valentino ready-to-wear collection at Paris Fashion Week, where Chappell Roan and Jared Leto were among the guests. (March 9)

Valentino's Michele upends high fashion by setting Paris show inside staged public toilets

Valentino paraded high fashion inside a public toilets setting in one of the most unexpected backdrops of the season, especially for a house as classical as Valentino. The set was a meticulous … more

By THOMAS ADAMSON | 3/9/25

FILE - In this March 9, 2009 file photo, The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of state department programs

The State Department has frozen funding indefinitely for thousands of scholars participating in long-established cross-cultural programs connecting the U.S. to other parts of the world. Department … more

By OLIVIA DIAZ and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | 3/9/25

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Noem taps new immigration enforcement leaders and moves to identify leakers

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced new immigration enforcement leadership as she pledged to step of polygraph tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information … more

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO | 3/9/25

FILE - Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents. Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer says he was arrested at his … more

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ | 3/9/25

Relatives and neighbours mourn during the funeral procession for four Syrian security force members killed in clashes with loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad in coastal Syria, in the village of Al-Janoudiya, west of Idlib, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days. The attack … more

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB | 3/9/25

This image from video provided by Andrew Tallon shows smoke from fires in New York's Long Island, on Saturday, March 8, 2025, seen from Southampton, N.Y. (Andrew Tallon via AP)

Firefighters seek to contain wind-driven brush fire on Long Island

Firefighters in New York continued to battle at least one brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island on Sunday. Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Saturday after four separate fires … more

3/9/25

Elon Musk, center left, operating with a directive from President Donald Trump to slash government spending, walks with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., right, as he arrives to meet with Republican senators, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Musk and DOGE try to slash government by cutting out those who answer to voters

Conservatives have long talked about cutting government, but Republicans in Congress have shied away from approving deep reductions because of fear of how voters would react. Now, President Donald … more

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI | 3/9/25

FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., March 7, 1965. (AP Photo, File)

'Bloody Sunday' 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers were attacked in Selma on March 7, 1965. The violence shocked the nation … more

By KIM CHANDLER and SAFIYAH RIDDLE | 3/9/25

FILE - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with Jason Hing, chief deputy of emergency services at the Los Angles Fire Department, left, and Capt. Jeff Brown, chief of Station 69, as they tour the Pacific Palisades neighborhood affected by recent wildfires in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts

The National Fire Academy, the country's preeminent federal fire training academy, has canceled classes effective immediately amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President … more

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO | 3/8/25

FILE - Ernesto Valladares, brother of Ulises Valladares, speaks to the media Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 across from his brother's home where Ulises and his son held hostage days earlier. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Judge awards nearly $2M after concluding FBI agent was negligent in shooting kidnapped Texas man

A federal judge has awarded nearly $2 million in damages as part of a civil lawsuit after concluding an FBI agent was negligent when he fatally shot a kidnapped Texas man during a botched rescue … more

3/8/25

A police officer was shot and killed and another wounded on Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said. Authorities say the slain officer, 25-year-old Joseph Azcona, was part of a Newark police intelligence team that had gone to capture a suspect in an illegal weapons investigation when he was fired on in his vehicle.

New Jersey police officer killed, second officer wounded in shooting by 14-year-old, authorities say

Authorities say a 14-year-old boy shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in Newark. Witnesses described a chaotic scene, seeing officers running down a busy street before … more

3/8/25

Immigration advocates hold a funeral in Eagle Pass, Texas on Thursday Feb. 6, 2025, for Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares, who drowned in November 2023 after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

Venezuelan parents watch from home as their son is laid to rest in Texas after drowning

The cries of a mother watching from Venezuela through a cellphone pierced through the somber Christian music and gusts of wind as her son's casket was lowered into the ground. Gustavo Alfonso Garcia … more

By VALERIE GONZALEZ | 3/8/25

This photo provided by Francine Apollon shows Djovani Jean-Pierre in Albertville, Ala. (Francine Apollon via AP).

Alabama minor is jailed with adults pre-trial in violation of federal law

Activists say an Alabama teenager's incarceration in an adult jail violates federal and state laws that require inmates who are minors to be separated from adults. Djovani Jean-Pierre spent his 17th … more

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE | 3/8/25

A witness, Jeffrey Collins, reporter for The Associated Press describes the execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon during a news conference, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes

An Associated Press journalist has served as a media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina. He reports that the firing squad is both faster and more … more

By JEFFREY COLLINS | 3/7/25

FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams attends an event at the NYPD's 40th precinct, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

Expert tells judge to drop charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams without letting them be refiled

A court-appointed lawyer has advised a federal judge to let the Justice Department drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams but prevent prosecutors from ever reviving the case … more

By LARRY NEUMEISTER and MICHAEL R. SISAK | 3/7/25