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Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a colonel and nine officers accused of stealing weapons and ammunition from the police department’s armory and illegally selling them to people including criminals in neighboring Haiti, where violence has surged. The crackdown that began Sunday is ongoing as officials

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill are rallying around Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon pick. Their support Thursday came even as new details surfaced about allegations that Hegseth had sexually assaulted a woman in 2017. The swift GOP embrace of Hegseth came as another controversial Trump nominee, Matt Gaetz, withdrew

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The chief operating officer for the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency is no longer working in the position. An office spokesperson confirmed Laura Hogshead is out of the role and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s legislative lobbyist Pryor Gibson will serve in the interim. Hogshead’s departure comes after

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials are warning American defense companies to increase their security after a wave of sabotage in Europe blamed on Russia. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center issued a public bulletin Thursday advising companies that work in the defense industry that Russia may seek to carry out acts of sabotage as

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City building superintendent has been charged with stealing more than $350,000 from a 100-year-old resident of the building where she worked. Prosecutors say Rosalind Hernandez persuaded the victim to grant her power of attorney and then used his checkbook and debit and credit cards to make

Associated Press The decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and a top Hamas official puts them in a small group of leaders to be accused of crimes against humanity. The court issued warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant,

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, his election victory is likely to embolden those who think they can get his ear. There’s the prospect that his second administration could face many of the same perils as his first, when there were influence-peddling scandals. That will test

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A high-ranking leader of a Mexican drug cartel who lived in the U.S. under a phony identity after faking his own death has been arrested on federal charges, the Justice Department said Thursday. Cristian Fernando Gutierrez Ochoa — the son-in-law of the fugitive Jalisco New Generation cartel boss known as

Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Heavy gunfire has erupted in South Sudan’s capital of Juba at the home of the country’s former spy chief who has been under house arrest for the past two months. According to witnesses, soldiers exchanged fire with Gen. Akol Koor’s security guards in Juba’s high-end neighborhood of Thongpiny

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan’s capital has barred the party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding a planned rally in Islamabad on Sunday, a day before the president of Belarus arrives for an official three-day visit. The ruling Thursday was a setback for the supporters of Khan who planned to

BOSTON (AP) — The owner of a trucking company was sentenced Thursday to two months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for lying to investigators after one of his trucks was accused of causing a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. Dunyadar Gasanov pleaded guilty in Springfield, Massachusetts, in August