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President of Colombia Gustavo Petro Urrego addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

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

6:56 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

The U.S. Capitol is seen on the second day of the government shutdown, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP reader question: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online?

4:41 PM on Friday, October 3

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online in discussing the shutdown

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

4:34 PM on Friday, October 3

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

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle is parked outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

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

4:25 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

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

4:04 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

4:00 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

3:50 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

3:46 PM on Friday, October 3

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

As Hegseth orders changes to the Pentagon watchdog, advocates say that will silence complaints

3:18 PM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s overhauling the inspector general’s office

Government funding legislation fails again in the Senate with little sign of progress on third day of shutdown

3:03 PM on Friday, October 3

Government funding legislation fails again in the Senate with little sign of progress on third day of shutdown

States say Trump administration has backed off ICE cooperation requirement for victims' funds

2:52 PM on Friday, October 3

Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed away from requiring states to agree to cooperate with the president’s immigration agenda in order to access federal money for programs that help victims of crime

FILE - Kids play outside a polling precinct, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Guadalupe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

A by the numbers look at the current Hispanic population in the United States

2:34 PM on Friday, October 3

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing racial or ethnic groups

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

2:14 PM on Friday, October 3

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

In this undated photo, Leqaa Kordia sits for a portrait in New York. (AP Photo)

The only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown breaks silence: 'I feel helpless'

2:11 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

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

1:44 PM 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

FILE - Sacks of flour are unloaded from a truck as residents receive their monthly food supplies from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at a warehouse at the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, April 13, 2006. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming UN agency enabled Hamas' deadly attack on Israel

1:12 PM on Friday, October 3

A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York

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

9:49 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

FILE - Cars pass the 95th Street Red Line Station, the train station currently the farthest south on the line and where the Chicago Transit Authority plans to extend from in 2025, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Trump pauses $2.1B for Chicago infrastructure projects, leveraging shutdown to pressure Democrats

7:57 AM on Friday, October 3

White House budget director Russ Vought says the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown

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

7:08 AM on Friday, October 3

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown are fading

Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah, center, speaks during a panel discussion about the impact of Black women in media at the Congressional Black Caucus's Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Brown)

In Black columnist's firing, advocates fear decreasing diversity, vital perspectives in news media

12:08 AM on Thursday, October 2

Karen Attiah, a former opinion columnist at The Washington Post, says she was fired after social media posts expressing concerns about gun violence and rhetoric against Black women

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