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This photo, taken from a body-worn camera video, shows the moment before a San Diego Police Officer fatally shot 16-year-old Konoa Wilson as he ran away from gunfire on Jan. 28, 2025. (San Diego Police Department via AP)2025-12-06T15:30:47Z SAN DIEGO (AP) The San Diego city attorneys office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot by police last January in what would be one of the largest settlements of a police-involved killing case in U.S. history.A resolution authorizing the proposed settlement with the family of Konoa Wilson has been added to the city councils agenda for Tuesday morning.What happened to Konoa was a catastrophic failure of policing, family attorney Nick Rowley said in a statement to City News Service. A 16-year-old boy was running for his life. He was not a threat and not a suspect, yet he was shot in the back by a police officer who only saw him for one second before deciding to pull the trigger.If approved, the settlement would exceed the $27 million the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay the family of George Floyd, whose May 2020 murder by a police officer who kneeled on his neck sparked a nationwide racial reckoning. Surveillance and body-worn camera footage from Jan. 28 showed Wilson running away from someone who pulled a gun and fired at him in a downtown train station. As he exited the station, Wilson encountered San Diego Police Officer Daniel Gold. In a lawsuit against the city and Gold, the family alleged the officer instantly, without any warning, fired two shots at Wilson, who was Black, as he ran by, striking him in the upper body. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Only after shooting DECEDENT and watching him fall to the ground did Defendant GOLD finally announce San Diego Police, said the suit, which was filed in June. Defendants committed acts of racial violence against DECEDENT, a teenager, by shooting him in his back as he ran past Defendant GOLD, in an attempt to get to a place of safety.Wilson was pronounced dead at UC San Diego Health Medical Center less than an hour later.An agenda item posted Friday said the settlement would be paid from the Public Liability Fund.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan speaks to city employees in Detroit, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)2025-12-06T15:47:04Z DETROIT (AP) When Mayor Mike Duggan announced his plan to run for Michigan governor, he did so from a tower in the iconic but aging Renaissance Center overlooking Detroit.Its not the same city that Duggan inherited in January 2014.No longer defined by blocks of vacant houses, empty downtown storefronts, rampant crime and scores of broken streetlights, many believe Detroit is finally experiencing its renaissance.I wish he would stay, 40-year-old plumber Thomas Millender said of Duggan, who will step down in January after serving three terms as mayor.Duggan did a good job from what the city was to how it has been revamped, Millender said from his fathers porch in a neighborhood where many homes are dilapidated. Private renovation crews buzzed in and out of once-vacant houses, preparing them for sale.There is not any neighborhood in this city that hasnt had blight reduced, that hasnt had street lights on, that hasnt had parks renovated, Duggan told The Associated Press.We have it going in the right direction, but the next mayors gonna have to go build on what I do and the following mayor is gonna have to build on that mayor, Duggan said. Its going to take decades to bring the city all the way back. A once broken cityDuggan, a former prosecutor and health center chief, ran for mayor in 2013, when Detroit was broke and saddled with billions of dollars in long-term debt.It was tough to keep basic services running. City employees were forced to work fewer hours and take pay cuts. More than a third of Detroit residents lived in poverty.Weve hit bottom, then-Mayor Dave Bing said flatly.Bing, a successful business owner and basketball Hall of Famer, was elected in 2009 after a scandal involving once-popular Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick roiled City Hall and forced Detroits financial straits into the spotlight.By early 2013, the state had taken over city finances and installed an emergency manager who filed for bankruptcy that summer. Because of the depths of the citys debt, there was no way to get any relief on that without bankruptcy, Bing said. He didnt seek reelection and the city, looking for new leadership, found it in Duggan. Rebuilding Detroit after bankruptcyDetroit exited bankruptcy in December 2014, after wiping away $7 billion in long-term debt. For several years after, a state review team monitored the citys finances and made sure its bills were paid. Detroit has since recorded more than a decade of consecutive balanced budgets.Violent crime, including murders, is trending down.There were more than 40,000 vacant houses and other empty buildings in Detroit when Duggan took office. Using mostly federal funds, his administration spearheaded the demolition of more than 24,000. Thousands of others that were teetering and unlivable have been saved.Some neighborhoods are in better shape than others, said Wayne State University Urban Studies and Planning Professor Jeff Horner. There are still blocks of terrible destitution and poverty.But the biggest hurdle overcome during Duggans tenure is the citys massive population loss. Detroits population reached 1.8 million people in the 1950s. By 2010, it had plunged below 700,000. The city lost a million people since 1957, Duggan said. That is a lot of years of decline. Its going to take decades of growth to get all the way back.A census estimate placed Detroits population at 645,705 in 2024, showing an increase of about 12,000 people since 2021, according to the city.When he ran in 2012-13, he said, Judge me by one thing and one thing only: whether Detroit can gain population, Horner said of Duggan. He kept that promise. Focusing on the entire cityJay Williams, 36, acknowledges there is less blight, but he would like to see alternatives to tearing down houses and leaving lots vacant.There is a lot of open space, he said. You can do new developments. A majority of the money is focused downtown.Detroit megachurch pastor the Rev. Solomon Kinloch argued during his unsuccessful mayoral campaign this year that every neighborhood should share in Detroits revival.You cant make all of the investments downtown, Kinloch said. It has to reach the whole town.City Council President Mary Sheffield, who was elected this month to succeed Duggan and will take office in January, says she will build on his success and ensure Detroits progress reaches every block and every family.Any mayors first responsibility is to attend to the entirety of the civic fabric, said Rip Rapson, chief executive of the private Kresge Foundation, which provides grants and invests in cities nationwide.Its not like you can just fix roads or improve police response time or build 25 units of affordable housing, Rapson said. As mayor, you have to attend to the need for complete vitality of neighborhoods ... making sure neighborhoods have adequate housing, safe housing stock, small business cultures, educational opportunities that anchor a neighborhood.People will have quarrels with bits and pieces, but hes done all of those things, Rapson said of Duggan. He leaves quite a powerful and positive legacy.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel look at each other during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-12-06T16:59:07Z WASHINGTON (AP) After the arrest of a man charged with placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties on Jan. 5, 2021, the warning from the Trump administration was clear: If you come to the nations capital to attack citizens and institutions of democracy, you will be held accountable.Yet Justice Department leaders who announced the arrest were silent about the violence that had taken place when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol and clashed with police one day after those bombs were discovered.It was the latest example of the Trumps administrations to rewrite the history of the riot, through pardons and the firings of lawyers who prosecuted the participants of the siege, and of the disconnect for a government that prides itself for cracking down on violent crime and supporting law enforcement but has papered over the brutality of the Jan. 6 attacks on police officers. The administration has ignored and attempted to whitewash the violence committed by rioters on Jan. 6 because they were the presidents supporters. They were trying to install him a second time against the will of the voters in 2020, said Michael Romano, who prosecuted the rioters before leaving the Justice Department this year. And it feels like the effort to ignore that is purely transactional. The White House referred comment to the Justice Department, which referred comment to the FBI. The bureau did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press on Friday. Bongino once suggested pipe bomb incident was inside job FBI Director Kash Patel, as a conservative podcast host during the Biden administration, had called the Jan. 6 rioters political prisoners and offered to represent them for free. But on Thursday, he said the arrest of the pipe bomb suspect, 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr., was in keeping with Trumps commitment to secure our nations capital.When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack the nations capital, you attack the very being of our way of life, Patel said. And this FBI and this Department of Justice stand here to tell you that we will always combat it.Patels deputy, Dan Bongino, had suggested before joining the FBI that federal law enforcement had wasted time investigating Jan. 6 rioters and anti-abortion activists.These are threats to the United States? he said on a podcast last year. Grandma is in the gulag for a trespassing charge on January 6th.Bongino indicated last year he believed the pipe bomb incident was an inside job that involved a massive cover-up. After joining the FBI, Bongino repeatedly described t the investigation as a top priority that was receiving significant resources and attention.We were going to track this person to the end of the earth. There was no way he was getting away, he said Thursday.No public link has emerged between the pipe bombs and the riot, and Coles arrest was a significant development in a long-running investigation that had confounded authorities, who are now are assembling a portrait of Cole. People familiar with the matter told The Associated Press that among the statements Cole made to investigators is that he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, which Trump has insisted was stolen from him in favor of Democrat Joe Biden. The people were not authorized to discuss ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. There was no widespread fraud in that election, which a range of election officials across the country, including Trumps former attorney general, William Barr, have confirmed. Republican governors in key states crucial to Bidens victory have also vouched for the integrity of the elections in their states. Nearly all the legal challenges from Trump and his allies were dismissed by the courts. Administration has played down Jan. 6 and aftermathThe tough-on-crime words heard during Thursdays announcement about Coles arrest were at odds with the Republican administrations repeated efforts to play down the violence of Jan. 6, absolve those charged in the insurrection and target those who investigated and prosecuted the rioters.Trumps clemency action on his first day back in the White House in January applied to all 1,500-plus people charged with participating in the attack on the foundations of American democracy. That included defendants seen on camera violently attacking police with makeshift weapons such as flagpoles, a crutch and a hockey stick. More than 100 police officers were injured, including some who have described being scared for their lives as they were dragged into the crowd and beaten. Earlier this year, the Justice Department asked the FBI for the names of agents who participated in Jan. 6 investigations, a demand feared within the bureau for as a possible precursor to mass firings. In August, Patel fired Brian Driscoll, who as the FBIs acting director in the early days of the Trump administration resisted handing over those names. Trumps administration, meanwhile, has fired or demoted numerous prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases, including more than two dozen lawyers who had been hired for temporary assignments to support the investigation but were moved into permanent roles after Trump won the 2024 election.In October, two federal prosecutors were locked out of their government devices and told they were being put on leave after filing court papers that described those who attacked the Capitol as a mob of rioters. The Justice Department later submitted a new court filing that stripped mentions of the Jan. 6 riot.One man whose case was dismissed because of Trumps pardons was accused of hurling an explosive device and a large piece of wood at a group of officers who trying to defend an entrance to the Capitol. Some officers later said they had believed they were going to die, prosecutors wrote in court papers, and several reported suffering temporary hearing loss. ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Richer covers the Justice Department and federal courts. She joined The AP in 2013 and is based in Washington. twitter ERIC TUCKER Tucker covers national security in Washington for The Associated Press, with a focus on the FBI and Justice Department. twitter mailto

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This photo provided by St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office shows Keith Eli, 24, of Opelousas, one of three inmates who escaped from a southwestern Louisiana jail, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)2025-12-06T18:36:33Z OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall.We would prefer that he surrender himself peaceably, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said in a statement, but we will not rest until he is captured.Detectives and SWAT officers were following leads Saturday in pursuit of 24-year-old Keith Eli, who remained at large three days after he and two other inmates escaped the parish jail in southwestern Louisiana, said Maj. Mark LeBlanc, a spokesman for the sheriff. Eli had been jailed on a charge of second-degree murder.One of the escapees, 24-year-old Johnathan Jevon Joseph, was captured Friday following a brief chase. LeBlanc said investigators following a tip found Joseph, who was jailed on charges of rape and other crimes, hiding out at a home. Joseph ran to a nearby storage shed, where he surrendered after being cornered, LeBlanc said. The third escapee, 26-year-old Joseph Allen Harrington, killed himself with a hunting rifle Thursday after police found him at a home and used a loudspeaker to urge him to come out, said Port Barre Police Chief Deon Boudreaux. Before his escape, Harrington had faced several felony charges, including home invasion. It wasnt the first bold jail escape in Louisiana this year. In May, 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail after crawling through a hole behind a toilet and leaving a message that read To Easy LoL. Authorities searched across multiple states for the escapees as local officials pointed fingers over who was to blame for the jailbreak. It took five moths before all 10 inmates were recaptured. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on As sheriff, Guidroz oversees the St, Landry Parish jail in Opelousas, about 130 miles (209 kilometers) northwest of New Orleans. He has said the inmates escaped after discovering a degrading part of an upper wall area and over time managed to remove the mortar holding the walls concrete blocks together. That enabled them to remove enough blocks to slip through the wall.The inmates then used sheets to scale the jails outer wall, drop onto a first-floor roof and lower themselves to the ground, Guidroz said in a news release Wednesday.The sheriff said the breakout will be investigated internally.

This undated photo provided by California Department of Health shows a Death Cap Mushroom. (California Department of Health via AP)2025-12-06T18:26:43Z California officials are warning foragers after an outbreak of poisoning linked to wild mushrooms that has killed one adult and caused severe liver damage in several patients, including children.The state poison control system has identified 21 cases of amatoxin poisoning, likely caused by death cap mushrooms, the health department said Friday. The toxic wild mushrooms are often mistaken for edible ones because of their appearance and taste.Death cap mushrooms contain potentially deadly toxins that can lead to liver failure, Erica Pan, director of the California Department of Public Health, said in a statement. Because the death cap can easily be mistaken for edible safe mushrooms, we advise the public not to forage for wild mushrooms at all during this high-risk season.One adult has died and several patients have required intensive care, including at least one who might need a liver transplant. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Officials advise against wild mushroom foragingWet weather fuels the growth of death cap mushrooms, and officials warn against any wild mushroom foraging to avoid confusion. Residents in central Californias Monterey County became ill after eating mushrooms found in a local park, according to county health officials. Another cluster of cases were in the San Francisco Bay Area, but state health officials warned that the risk is everywhere.There were more than 4,500 cases of exposure to unidentified mushrooms logged at Americas Poison Centers in 2023, according to their National Poison Data System annual report. Roughly half were in young children, who experts warn may pick and eat a mushroom while playing outside.Californias poison control system sees hundreds of cases of wild mushroom poisonings each year. The death cap mushroom and the destroying angel mushroom look and taste similar to edible mushrooms, so experts warn that a mushrooms color is not a reliable way of detecting its toxicity. And whether it is eaten raw or cooked does not matter. Symptom improvement is not an all-clearPeople can have stomach cramping, nausea, diarrhea or vomiting within 24 hours after ingesting a toxic mushroom. Though gastrointestinal symptoms may improve, health officials warn that patients can still develop serious complications, including liver damage, that surface later.People looking for guidance on diagnosing or treating mushroom poisoning can contact the poison control hotline at 1-800-222-1222.

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President Donald Trump speaks before a concert by Andrea Bocelli in the East Room of the White House walking towards the East Room, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)2025-12-06T18:51:52Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Saturday was hosting the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees in the Oval Office for what the White House described as a medal presentation ceremony. This years recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawford. Trump ignored the Kennedy Center and its marquis awards program during his first term as president. But the Republican president instituted a series of changes since returning to office in January, most notably ousting its board of trustees and replacing them with GOP supporters who voted him in as chairman. Trump also has criticized the centers programming and its physical appearance, and vowed to overhaul both.The president said in August that he was about 98% involved in choosing the 2025 honorees when he personally announced them at the Kennedy Center, the first slate chosen under his leadership. The honorees traditionally had been announced by press release. It was unclear how they were chosen. Before Trump, it fell to a bipartisan selection committee. Later Saturday, after the Oval Office event, Trump was scheduled to attend an annual State Department dinner for the honorees. In years past, the honorees would receive their medallions at the dinner but it appeared that Trump has moved the ceremony to the White House. Meanwhile, the glitzy Kennedy Center Honors program and its series of tribute performances for each recipient is set to be taped on Sunday at the performing arts center for broadcast later in December on CBS and Paramount+. Trump is to attend the program for the first time as president, accompanied by his wife, first lady Melania Trump. The president said in August that he would host the show, but the White House has not characterized his level of participation. Presidents traditionally attend the program and sit with the honorees in the audience. None has ever served as host. Ive been asked to host. I said, Im the president of the United States. Are you fools asking me to do that? Trump said back then. And then Susie Wiles said to me, Sir, Id like you to host. I said, OK, Susie, Ill do it, Trump said, referring to his White House chief of staff. Trump spent several hours at the Kennedy Center on Friday. He participated in the FIFA World Cup draw for 2026 and accepted its inaugural peace prize. Trump also met in a group with the leaders of Canada and Mexico. DARLENE SUPERVILLE Superville covers the White House for The Associated Press, with a special emphasis on first ladies and first families.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)2025-12-06T21:57:46Z WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended strikes on alleged drug cartel boats during remarks Saturday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, saying President Donald Trump has the power to take military action as he sees fit to defend the nation.Hegseth dismissed criticism of the strikes, which have killed more than 80 people and now face intense scrutiny over concerns that they violated international law. Saying the strikes are justified to protect Americans, Hegseth likened the fight to the war on terror following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. If youre working for a designated terrorist organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you. Let there be no doubt about it, Hegseth said during his keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum. President Trump can and will take decisive military action as he sees fit to defend our nations interests. Let no country on earth doubt that for a moment. The most recent strike brings the death toll of the campaign to at least 87 people. Lawmakers have sought more answers about the attacks and their legal justification, and whether U.S. forces were ordered to launch a follow-up strike following a September attack even after the Pentagon knew of survivors. Though Hegseth compared the alleged drug smugglers to Al-Qaida terrorists, experts have noted significant differences between the two foes and the efforts to combat them. Hegseths remarks came after the Trump administration released its new national security strategy, one that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert Americas dominance in the Western Hemisphere.During the speech Hegseth also discussed the need to check Chinas rise through strength instead of conflict. He repeated Trumps vow to resume nuclear testing on an equal basis as China and Russia a goal that has perplexed many nuclear arms experts. The speech was delivered at the Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in California, an event which brings together top national security experts from around the country. Hegseth used the visit to argue that Trump is Reagans true and rightful heir when it comes to muscular foreign policy.By contrast, Hegseth criticized Republican leaders in the years since Reagan for supporting wars in the Middle East and democracy-building efforts that didnt work. He also blasted those who have argued that climate change poses serious challenges to military readiness.The war department will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing and feckless nation building, he said. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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