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Jani Silva, 63, sails in a boat on the Putumayo River, on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

'It’s not safe to live here.' Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders

8:00 AM on Monday, December 8

Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade

Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?

7:36 AM on Monday, December 8

Altus Power Hires Justin Biltz as Head of Policy and Government Affairs

7:00 AM on Monday, December 8

Lynn Weidner, a home care worker who worries that the cost of her health insurance plan in the Affordable Care Act marketplace will rise, poses in front of her home, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Swing district Republicans brace for political fallout if health care subsidies expire

6:00 AM on Monday, December 8

House Republicans in key battleground districts are working to contain the political fallout expected when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained through the Affordable Care Act

A Somali poet performs during a cultural event in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somalia's poets keep hope alive for storytelling and for peace

9:12 PM on Sunday, December 7

There may be no higher art in Somalia than oral poetry, which is recited in the most remote outposts and even by militants

A general view of a container port seen from a helicopter in Tokyo, on Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Japan revises economic data to show bigger contraction in July-September period

8:11 PM on Sunday, December 7

Japan’s economy has contracted at an annual pace of 2.3% in the July-September period, as exports suffered from the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and public investments slipped

FILE - Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear waves to a cheering crowd after his speech during the Ben Nelson Gala Nov. 7, 2025, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz, File)

Democratic governors say the party's midterm strategy must focus on voters' pocketbook concerns

6:23 PM on Sunday, December 7

Democratic governors who met over the weekend in Arizona say the party must focus on affordability in next year's midterm elections

FILE - New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks during a news conference, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa, File)

Zohran Mamdani tells immigrant New Yorkers about their right not to comply with ICE

4:40 PM on Sunday, December 7

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video explaining immigrants' right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adjusts the headphones during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Jerusalem Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas will enter ceasefire's second phase soon

8:04 AM on Sunday, December 7

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon

Doris Wilson, a foot soldier who marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, sitting, is reunited with Dr. June Finer, the doctor who tended to her throughout the march, in Marion, Ala., Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, seven decades later

8:04 AM on Sunday, December 7

Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, walk the red carpet before the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump hosts Kennedy Center Honors, a touchstone in his attack against what he calls 'woke' culture

7:06 AM on Sunday, December 7

Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries celebrated at the annual Kennedy Center Honors

President Donald Trump talks to the media while walking the red carpet before the 48th Kennedy Center Honors, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump says Zelenskyy 'hasn't read' a US-authored proposal to end Russia-Ukraine war

6:24 AM on Sunday, December 7

President Donald Trump is claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “ hasn’t read” a U

The stage is prepared ahead of the dressed rehearsal of the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, by Dmitri Shostakovich, at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

La Scala gala crowd cheers premiere of Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth' once censored by Stalin

6:19 AM on Sunday, December 7

The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala has cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" with a 12-minute standing ovation

Soldiers ride in a military vehicle along a street amid an attempted coup in Cotonou Benin, Sunday Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo)

Benin's president condemns a foiled coup bid and says mutineers are 'fleeing'

2:43 AM on Sunday, December 7

Benin President Patrice Talon has condemned an attempted coup that was foiled by the army in his first public comments since sporadic gunfire was heard in parts of the administrative capital, Cotonou

People read the candidates information at a polling station near the site of the fire at Wang Fuk Court in the Tai Po district during the Legislative Council General Election in Hong Kong on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

Hong Kong voter turnout rate edges up despite public anger over deadly fire

6:14 PM on Saturday, December 6

About a third of Hong Kong's registered voters has elected a new 90-member legislature

Today in History: December 8, U.S. enters World War II

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