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- Colorado River water negotiators appear no closer to long-term agreement December 19, 2025Water leaders in the U.S. West gathered this week with a hefty task hanging over their heads — figuring out a long-term plan for sharing water from the Colorado River
- Florida man executed for killings of man and his girlfriend during home invasion December 18, 2025Florida man executed for the killings of a man and his girlfriend during a 1987 home invasion
- UN elects former Iraqi President Barham Salih as head of refugee agency December 18, 2025The United Nations General Assembly has approved former Iraqi President Barham Salih as the next head of the U.N. refugee agency, its first from the Middle East since the late 1970s
- Florida Supreme Court upholds death sentences by nonunanimous juries December 18, 2025Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death
- What to know about the Arizona serial killings that resulted in the death penalty December 18, 2025An Arizona man has been sentenced to death in a string of fatal shootings in metro Phoenix in 2017
- Hurricane-force wind downs power lines, fans wildfires in Colorado with more on way December 18, 2025Work crews are mopping up but bracing for more after hurricane-force wind downed power lines and fanned wildfires along the Colorado Front Range and onto the Great Plains
- Arizona jury sentences man to death in string of killings in metro Phoenix during 2017 December 18, 2025A jury has sentenced a man to death in six murders in metro Phoenix in 2017, but was undecided on the punishment for his convictions in the killings of his mother and stepfather
- 14 Minnesota programs are targeted for fraud and the state is swamped with crime December 18, 2025Five new defendants have been charged in connection with a Minnesota housing services fraud scheme
- Atlantic City mayor Marty Small Sr. has been acquitted on charges he assaulted his teenage daughter December 18, 2025Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. has been acquitted of charges that he endangered and abused his teenage daughter
- Five new defendants have been charged in connection with a Minnesota housing services fraud scheme December 18, 2025Five new defendants have been charged in connection with a Minnesota housing services fraud scheme
- Alleged leader of Tren de Aragua, labeled as a terrorist group, charged in New York but on the lam December 18, 2025An alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua gang labeled by the United States as a terrorist organization has been charged in a New York federal court with racketeering conspiracy and terrorism-related charges
- Efforts to reconnect Americans face challenges in a lonely time December 18, 2025It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation
- Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation December 18, 2025Americans are disconnected from each other at historic levels, buffeted by what a former surgeon general calls an “epidemic of loneliness.”
- Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett has died December 18, 2025Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died
- US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion December 18, 2025The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion, including medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones
- World shares are mixed after AI worries drag Wall Street tech stocks lower December 18, 2025World shares are mixed after declines for AI stocks dragged the U.S. market to its worst day in nearly a month
- Florida man set to be executed for killing 2 during a home invasion December 18, 2025A man convicted of fatally shooting a man and woman during home invasion robbery and later confessing to three other killings is set to be the 19th person executed in Florida this year
- Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant set to present her case December 18, 2025A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities is set to present her case as her trial on obstruction and concealment charges winds down
- Brian Walshe to be sentenced after being convicted of killing of his wife December 18, 2025A Massachusetts man is expected to be sentenced for murdering his wife, whose body was never found after she disappeared nearly three years ago
- US military says strike on alleged drug boat kills 4 in eastern Pacific December 18, 2025The U.S. military says it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people
