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Jets sued by former executive over alleged retaliation for misconduct claims against team president

4:45 PM on Friday, October 3

The New York Jets have been accused in a lawsuit of firing a former vice president as part of their response to sexual misconduct allegations against team President Hymie Elhai

Supporters of President Gustavo Petro attend a rally, ahead of his first appearance since the United States revoked his visa, in Ibague, Colombia, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

US escalates criticism of Colombia's president at the UN, calls for action against drug trafficking

3:56 PM on Friday, October 3

The United States is accusing Colombia’s president of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by “narco-terrorist groups” a priority

Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can't end birthright citizenship

3:45 PM on Friday, October 3

A federal appeals court in Boston has ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily

FILE - Judge Scott McAfee addresses the lawyers during a hearing on charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case, Thursday, March 28, 2024 in Atlanta. (Dennis Byron/Hip Hop Enquirer via AP, Pool, File)

Judge sets 14-day deadline for appointment of new prosecutor in Georgia election case against Trump

2:44 PM on Friday, October 3

A judge has announced that the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others will be dismissed in 14 days if a new prosecutor isn't appointed

Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to strip protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

1:34 PM on Friday, October 3

Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to strip protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries

1:25 PM on Friday, October 3

The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport

A protester is sprayed by a Department of Homeland Security officer outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Portland braces for federal troops as protests escalate and a conservative influencer is arrested

1:18 PM on Friday, October 3

Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops promised by President Donald Trump

FILE - A medical assistant takes the pulse of a one month-old patient during a checkup at the Seattle Indian Health Board Clinic, which relies on federal funding to operate, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Federal shutdown hurts services for Native Americans and they worry worse is coming

1:04 PM on Friday, October 3

Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to their health care, education and infrastructure

FILE - Leqaa Kordia, right, demonstrates with pro-Palestianian protesters as they gather near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, just before New York City police officers cleared the area after a building was taken over by protesters earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Takeaways from AP's interview with the only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown

1:00 PM on Friday, October 3

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

Hamas says it accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan but that others require further negotiation

12:50 PM on Friday, October 3

Hamas says it accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan but that others require further negotiation

Speaker Johnson cancels House votes for next week as Republicans pressure Senate to accept funding bill and end shutdown

12:46 PM on Friday, October 3

Speaker Johnson cancels House votes for next week as Republicans pressure Senate to accept funding bill and end shutdown

FILE - Members of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard, patrol the subway system in Penn Station as police officers check commuters' bags in New York on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Trump reverses $187M funding cuts for New York counterterrorism after bipartisan outcry

12:18 PM on Friday, October 3

President Donald Trump has reversed $187 million in funding cuts for New York's law enforcement and counterterrorism operations

FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League after conservative complaints

11:59 AM on Friday, October 3

FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and prominent allies of President Donald Trump

FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)

Republican-led Georgia state Senate committee plans to question Fani Willis next month

11:14 AM on Friday, October 3

A Georgia special state Senate committee plans to question Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis next month

FILE - In this photo provided by the Tunisian Presidency, President Kais Saied takes oath, Oct. 21, 2024 in Tunis following his re-election. (Tunisian Presidency via AP, File)

A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president

10:44 AM on Friday, October 3

A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Va. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via AP)

Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs

10:01 AM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs off Venezuela

Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to meet Trump at the White House next week

6:49 AM on Friday, October 3

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is to hold face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House

The state flag of Tennessee stands outside the office of Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in Washington, Sept. 2, 2025, which has a seat that became vacant following the resignation of Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn. on July 20. (AP Photo/Robert Yoon)

AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Tennessee's special congressional election

4:35 AM on Friday, October 3

More than a dozen candidates are competing for their parties’ nominations Tuesday to fill a vacant Tennessee congressional seat in the closely divided U.S. House

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., return to their offices after meeting with reporters on the third day of the government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown

4:08 AM on Friday, October 3

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown are fading

Luxembourg's Grand Duke Guillaume and Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Stephanie hold their children Prince Charles and Prince Francois as they wave from the balcony of the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

Luxembourg celebrates Grand Duke Guillaume after his father abdicates

10:06 PM on Thursday, October 2

Grand Duke Guillaume has ascended to the throne of Luxembourg after swearing an oath in a traditional ceremony on Friday

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