ANKARA, Turkey -- Following days of condemnation over Turkey's military offensive into Syria, all the European Union could decide on was to ask member states to think twice before signing new arms deals with Ankara.

Foreign ministers from the EU's 28 nations agreed Monday to restrict defense industry exports to Turkey to send President Recep ...Read more

Jayme Closs, who freed herself from captor, feels 'stronger every day'

BARRON, Wis. -- Jayme Closs, the teenage girl who freed herself from her captor after she was abducted by a stranger in her home who murdered her parents one year ago, said in a statement released Monday that she is feeling "stronger every day."

Closs, now 14, said in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles arson investigators confirmed Monday that, although the cause of the Saddleridge fire remains undetermined, the blaze started Thursday beneath a high-voltage transmission tower.

The Saddleridge fire broke out in Sylmar on Thursday night and was fueled by Santa Ana winds, burning almost 8,000 acres, destroying 17 ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Jurors in the Robert "Chip" Olsen murder trial reached split verdicts for the former DeKalb County police officer.

They found him not guilty on two felony murder counts, sparing him a sentence of life in prison. But jurors reached guilty verdicts on four lesser charges: two counts of violation of oath of office, aggravated assault ...Read more

MIAMI -- Most tourists come to South Florida to lie in the sun, visit glitzy nightclubs and eat at fine restaurants. But law enforcement investigators suspect a group of Chileans have been visiting for more nefarious reasons -- like to steal safes loaded with expensive jewelry.

Commonly referred to as "burglary tourism," local and federal ...Read more

MIAMI -- A Miami-Dade police public service aide is under internal investigation after an allegation surfaced that he said a black sergeant "looks like a monkey."

Pablo Espinoza, a longtime public service aide, has now been reassigned to "administration duties" as the department conducts an investigation into the alleged conduct, according to a...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday urged Pacific Gas & Electric to provide $100 rebates to residential customers affected by last week's unprecedented power shut-offs, asserting that the company's communications failures "put lives at risk."

"PG&E has an obligation to the customers affected by the company's inadequate preparation...Read more

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump, facing blowback over his abrupt troop withdrawal from Syria and amid reports that Islamic State detainees have escaped in the ensuing chaos, imposed sanctions Monday on three Turkish officials and two government agencies, and called for an immediate cease-fire.

Just hours after Trump issued a statement that...Read more

MIAMI -- A group of parents who lost children in the state's worst school shooting issued a message to state lawmakers on Monday: They don't want ousted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel to get his job back.

Standing in the midafternoon heat in front of the Parkland Public Safety building, about a half-dozen parents expressed outrage over the...Read more

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has tapped a familiar face to head the global body's new political mission for Haiti just as its peacekeeping presence comes to an end Tuesday.

Former State Department diplomat Helen Meagher La Lime, who currently serves as U.N. special representative in Haiti, will now head the U.N. Integrated ...Read more

LONDON -- The European Union Presidency said it's unlikely to strike a deal with the U.K. this week, dimming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hopes of avoiding another delay to Brexit.

Antti Rinne, premier of Finland -- which currently has the rotating presidency of the EU -- said the two sides need more time to reach an agreement before ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California lawmakers continued the state's expansion of rights and protections this year for immigrants who enter the country illegally, with laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom allowing them to serve on government boards and commissions and banning arrests for immigration violations in courthouses across the state.

The ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- A couple from England who was visiting Canada and took a wrong turn into the United States -- swerving to avoid an animal in the road -- has been detained with their 3-month-old baby and shipped to the Berks Detention Center in Leesport, Pa., according to their attorneys.

The baby boy has been subjected to frigid and filthy ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Three women who ran a "fighting ring" at a North Carolina assisted living facility encouraged residents to get into a physical altercation, officials say.

They were workers at the Danby House in Winston-Salem in June when they didn't intervene in a fight between two residents with dementia, according to a report from the N.C. ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- When the White House finally released $400 million in defense assistance it had withheld from Ukraine while pressuring its government to investigate President Donald Trump's political opponents, Republican and Democratic lawmakers had mere days to ensure millions of dollars for military equipment would not expire.

Even as the ...Read more

BARRON, Wis. -- Jayme Closs, the teenage girl who freed herself from her captor after she was abducted by a stranger in her home who murdered her parents one year ago, said in a statement released Monday that she is feeling "stronger every day."

Closs, now 14, said in the statement read aloud by her guardian that she wanted to "thank everyone ...Read more