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FILE - Kilmar Abrego Garcia joins supporters in a protest rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention facility

8:25 PM on Saturday, September 27

A man who was wrongfully deported from the United States to his native El Salvador has been moved from a Virginia detention center to a facility in Pennsylvania

This photo provided by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts on Feb. 26, 2025. (ICE via AP)

Officials place Des Moines schools leader on leave after his arrest by immigration agents

7:55 PM on Saturday, September 27

Officials have put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave a day after federal immigration agents arrested him because they said he was in the country illegally

President Donald Trump, right, salutes Air Force Col. Christopher M. Robinson, Commander, 89th Airlift Wing, before boarding Marine One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, after a day trip to the Ryder Cup golf tournament at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Trump to meet Monday with top four congressional leaders as government shutdown risk looms

7:43 PM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown

Prime Minister of Grenada Philip Dickon Mitchell addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

They said it: Leaders at the UN, in their own words

7:00 PM on Saturday, September 27

The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is photographed Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

The sparse indictment of Comey by Trump's Justice Department belies a complicated backstory

1:51 PM on Saturday, September 27

The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is only two pages and alleges he falsely testified to Congress in 2020 about authorizing someone to be an anonymous source in news stories

Stampede at a political rally for popular actor Vijay in southern India kills 36, injures 40

1:30 PM on Saturday, September 27

The health minister in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu says a stampede at a rally for a popular actor and politician has killed at least 36 people and injured 40 others

Rudy Giuliani and Dominion Voting Systems settle defamation suit over his 2020 election claims

12:23 PM on Saturday, September 27

Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation suit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims

A voter displays his stamped voter card after casting his ballot at a polling station in Libreville, Gabon, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Betines Makosso)

Gabon awaits results in its first legislative and local elections after the 2023 military coup

11:11 AM on Saturday, September 27

The oil-rich central African nation of Gabon has voted in its first legislative and local elections since a 2023 military coup ended a 50-year-old political dynasty

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 revokes visa for Colombia's president after he urges American soldiers to disobey Trump

9:27 AM on Saturday, September 27

Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated with the State Department saying it was revoking the visa of Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro's visa

FILE - The Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington on March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship

8:56 AM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily aren't American citizens

Two women walk past a huge banner showing the late commander of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard expeditionary Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in 2020, and two late Hezbollah leaders Hassan Nasrallah, center, and Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in 2024, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

UN imposes 'snapback' sanctions on a hungrier, poorer and more anxious Iran

1:02 AM on Saturday, September 27

The United Nations has reimposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program

People line up to cast their votes at Beau Vallon Secondary School in Beau Vallon, Seychelles, on Saturday, Sep. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Emilie Chetty)

Seychelles president seeks a second term as people vote in African tourist haven

12:48 AM on Saturday, September 27

The people of Seychelles are voting in an election to choose a new leader and parliament

Photo highlights from the Ryder Cup

12:49 PM on Friday, September 26

Long, fraught timeline of Iran nuclear tensions

5:09 AM on Monday, September 22

The United Nations has reimposed nuclear sanctions on Iran, putting new pressure on Tehran’s ailing economy as tensions remain high in the wider Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip

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