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FILE - Displaying a photo of a transperson who died under suspicious circumstances, members of the LGBTQ+ community protest against a decree by the Ministry of Health classifying transgender people as mentally ill, outside the Peruvian embassy in Quito, Ecuador, May 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A transgender teen’s case in Ecuador opens path for others seeking legal recognition

8:00 AM on Friday, April 17

Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has opened the door for transgender adolescents to change their name and sex in official records

FILE - An advertisement for prediction market platform Kalshi hangs at 13th and L Streets in northwest Washington, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)

Wanna bet? Washington steps up scrutiny of prediction markets

6:42 AM on Friday, April 17

A controversy has erupted over prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi

FILE - Workers fix barbed wire on the fence of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant at Ishwardi in Pabna, Bangladesh, Oct.4, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Iran war energy shock drives nuclear power plans in hard-hit Asia and Africa

1:08 AM on Friday, April 17

The Iran war’s global energy shock is causing some nations in Asia and Africa to boost nuclear power generation and spurring atomic energy plans in non-nuclear countries on both continents

FILE - Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, Australia, on June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

Australia's most decorated veteran walks free on bail on war crimes charges related to Afghan deaths

12:56 AM on Friday, April 17

Australia’s most decorated living veteran has walked free on bail from a Sydney prison 10 days after he was charged with committing war crimes in Afghanistan

In this photo provided by Daejeon Municipality, a veterinarian examines the condition of the male wolf, named Neukgu, at Daejeon O-World theme park in Daejeon, South Korea, Friday, April 17, 2026. (Daejeon Municipality via AP)

South Koreans breathe sighs of relief as escaped wolf is returned to zoo safely

12:54 AM on Friday, April 17

The South Korean internet as erupted in celebration as a 2-year-old wolf that escaped from a zoo in South Korea was safely captured Friday after a nine-day search that drew national attention

This photo provided by Grady Adams shows the house at 113 McCann Street in Benton, Illinois, where a then-unknown George Harrison stayed while visiting his sister in September 1963, months before the Beatles debuted in the U.S., which is now for sale and some Beatles fans fear it will be razed. (Grady Adams via AP)

Before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in Illinois. The house is now for sale

11:53 PM on Thursday, April 16

In September 1963, before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in the southern Illinois town of Benton

FILE - Todd Lyons, senior official performing the duties of the director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, listens during a Senate Homeland Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner, File)

ICE acting director Todd Lyons will resign at end of May, DHS says

9:26 PM on Thursday, April 16

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday

FILE - The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Lawmakers gathered quietly to talk about AI. Angst and fears of 'destruction' followed

9:13 PM on Thursday, April 16

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill conducted a roundtable with leading AI executives and academics to discuss the potential transformative impacts of the technology on American society

FILE - Cam Hamilton, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Homeland Security oversight hearing of FEMA on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump expected to nominate Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA after his firing last year

9:04 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has offered Cameron Hamilton the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's permanent administrator

Travelers go through TSA security check at O'Hare International Airport, Saturday, March 21, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sat0)

Federal officials order flight cuts at Chicago O'Hare to reduce airport delays

8:15 PM on Thursday, April 16

About 300 flights per day must be cut from the schedule at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on the busiest days this summer in an effort to reduce flight delays, The U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration order said Thursday the airlines scheduled more flights than O'Hare could handle, so the government told the airlines to make cuts

Milenko Faria, whose wife, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, is in immigration custody, hugs their daughter, Milena, after his asylum interview at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services facility in Tustin, Calif., Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A Venezuelan doctor in ICE custody misses husband's asylum interview after being detained at airport

5:22 PM on Thursday, April 16

A Venezuelan attends an asylum interview in Southern California while his wife, a doctor, is detained in Texas

Navy Reservist arrested, accused of fleeing to Hong Kong after wife's body found in Virginia freezer

2:29 PM on Thursday, April 16

Authorities say a man accused of fleeing to Hong Kong after his wife’s body was found in a freezer in their Virginia apartment has been apprehended

President Donald Trump holds a rendering of the proposed new East Wing of the White House as he speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route from West Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump rails against court decision that once again stalls his White House ballroom project

12:11 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has railed against a federal judge’s decision that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400 million White House ballroom

Trent Fry, right, and Leila El Masri collect a water sample of the Tijuana River, as part of a research team from the University of California, San Diego, Wednesday, March 11, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Tijuana River sewage is making the air toxic and sickening thousands in California

9:01 AM on Thursday, April 16

For decades, billions of gallons of sewage and industrial waste have been dumped into the Tijuana River

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the village of Qlaileh, as seen from the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The Latest: A 10-day ceasefire agreed on by Israel and Lebanon has gone into effect

1:03 AM on Thursday, April 16

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started

People drive their motorbikes past billboards showing the Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, top and right, and his father, the slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A 10-day ceasefire agreed on by Israel and Lebanon goes into effect

12:14 AM on Thursday, April 16

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started

Analilia Mejia smiles as she gestures to supporters after winning New Jersey's 11th Congressional District special election, Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Montclair, N.J. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Progressive Analilia Mejía takes New Jersey US House special election, giving Democrats another win

12:02 AM on Thursday, April 16

New Jersey Democrat Analilia Mejía has won a special election to fill the U.S. House seat that was vacated by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill after she was voted into that office

Crime scene tape is tied around a pole near the site where Lauren Bullis was killed, in Panthersville, Ga., Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

What to know about Atlanta-area attacks that killed 2, including a federal worker

11:13 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A man who served in the U.S. Navy after immigrating from Britain has been charged in a string of deadly attacks in the Atlanta suburbs that quickly drew the attention of President Donald Trump’s administration

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