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9:31 PM on Thursday, September 18

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump and Xi are set to discuss the TikTok deal and future of US-China relations

9:00 PM on Thursday, September 18

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to talk with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a push to finalize a deal to allow the popular social media app TikTok to keep operating in the U.S. The call Friday also may offer clues about whether the two leaders might meet in person to hash out a final agreement to end a trade war and provide clarity on where relations between superpowers may be headed

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Vietnam's President To Lam pose for photos at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam on June 20, 2024. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals

8:49 PM on Thursday, September 18

Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by The Associated Press

This courtroom sketch shows Secret Service agent Robert Fercano identifying the defendant in the trial of Ryan Routh, who is charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year at a golf course in South Florida, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Fort Pierce, Fla. (Lothar Speer via AP)

FBI sniper testifies that hiding spot near golf course was ideal place for man to shoot Trump

8:08 PM on Thursday, September 18

An FBI sniper testified about the effectiveness of a hiding spot chosen by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year

FILE - District Attorney Mark Dupree of Wyandotte County, Kan., answers a television reporter's questions following a Kansas House committee hearing, Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Kansas deputy charged with murder in the death of a man in custody

8:06 PM on Thursday, September 18

A Kansas sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder in the death of an inmate who sustained broken ribs after his back was kneeled on after he was wheeled from the infirmary to his cell

FILE - This photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, shows death row prisoner Richard Kenneth Djerf. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)

Arizona prisoner set to be executed apologizes, says he won’t seek clemency

7:36 PM on Thursday, September 18

An Arizona prisoner scheduled to be executed next month for killing four members of a family in their Phoenix home over 30 years ago has apologized for the pain he’s caused

FILE - Robert Mujica, budget director of the State of New York, answers budget questions during a news conference after Gov. Kathy Hochul presented her first executive state budget at the state Capitol, Jan. 18, 2022, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

3 members of federal control board in Puerto Rico sue Trump and others for illegal firings

7:26 PM on Thursday, September 18

Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit in U.S. court alleging their firings were illegal

New York State Senator Jabari Brisport chants while detained by federal agents after demanding access to inspect the detainment facility at immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits federal building, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Elected officials among dozens of protesters arrested at a Manhattan immigration holding facility

6:45 PM on Thursday, September 18

More than a dozen elected officials have been arrested while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees

Delta State University sign on the campus grounds, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 in Cleveland, Miss. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

Autopsy finds hanged Mississippi student died by suicide, police say

6:32 PM on Thursday, September 18

Mississippi police say an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office has concluded a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University died by suicide

This satellite image provided by NASA Earth Observatory shows the retreat of Alsek Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska, as it loses contact with a land mass known as Prow Knob, center right, revealing an island, Aug. 6, 2025. (NASA Earth Observatory via AP)

Retreating Alsek Glacier reveals new island in southeast Alaska

6:31 PM on Thursday, September 18

A retreating glacier has revealed a new island in Alaska, as lake water filled in to surround a land mass once hugged by ice

The Kentucky Supreme Court hears oral arguments at Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts in Danville, Ky., Sept. 10, 2025. Seated from left are Justice Shea Nickell, Justice Kelly Thompson, Justice Angela McCormick Bisig, Chief Justice of the Commonwealth Debra Hembree Lambert, Justice Pamela R. Goodwine, Justice Michelle M. Keller and Justice Robert B. Conley. (Jim Hoffman/Administrative Office of the Courts via AP)

Kentucky's highest court strikes down a city's ban on no-knock warrants

6:14 PM on Thursday, September 18

Kentucky's Supreme Court has struck down a city's ban on no-knock warrants

The Ig Nobel Prize for biology is accepted by Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Say Sato, Tatsuaki Masuda, Junichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Hirooka, and Katsutoshi Kino, for their experiments to learn whether cows painted with zebra- like striping can avoid being bitten by flies, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize

6:01 PM on Thursday, September 18

A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebra-like stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels

Yasin El Sammak is interviewed outside the New York City Police Department's 17th Precinct, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Assault charges dismissed against NYC man who said he was beaten by Egyptian officials

5:05 PM on Thursday, September 18

Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a New York man who claimed Egyptian officials dragged him off a Manhattan street and beat him

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) vehicle is parked in front of an ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

As immigration arrests spike in Chicago, activists escalate tactics to fight back

4:27 PM on Thursday, September 18

As encounters with federal immigration agents around Chicago increase, tactics used by activists and immigrant leaders to fight back are also escalating

FILE - The UN flag flies on a stormy day at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire and hostage release

1:41 PM on Thursday, September 18

The United States once again has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that had demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages

President Donald Trump, left, is greeted by Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he visits the prime minister's country residence Chequers, near Aylesbury, England, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (Ian Vogler/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Democrats introduce bill to protect free speech following Kimmel suspension

5:17 AM on Thursday, September 18

Congressional Democrats have unveiled a bill that would bolster free speech protections against government officials

Attendees react during a vigil at Spring Grove Alliance church Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, in Spring Grove, Pa., after multiple police officers were shot and killed. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Prosecutor says stalking suspect ambushed Pennsylvania police officers, killing 3

12:41 AM on Thursday, September 18

A prosecutor says a suspected stalker armed with a rifle hid inside his ex-girlfriend’s home in Pennsylvania and ambushed police officers who came to arrest him, killing three of them

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