President Donald Trump appears to be prodding his administration to seek criminal charges against more targets after a grand jury returned an indictment against foe and former FBI Director James Comey.

“It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” Trump told reporters on Friday as he departed the White House.

He added: “It’s about justice. It’s not revenge.”

Comey is accused of making a false statement to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding back in 2020. He declared his innocence Thursday and said, “Let’s have a trial.”

“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” Comey said in a video posted to Substack.

Comey, who was FBI director from 2013 to 2017, was fired by Trump during the Republican president’s first term amid the government’s probe into allegations of ties between Russian officials and Trump’s 2016 campaign.

John Bolton, who was national security adviser during Trump’s first term before being fired in 2019, is being investigated for his handling of certain documents after leaving government. His lawyer has denied wrongdoing. Like Comey, Bolton wrote a book that portrayed Trump in very unflattering ways.

What was the Russia probe?

Prosecutors led by special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish that Trump or his associates criminally colluded with Russia in 2016, but they found that Trump’s campaign had welcomed Moscow’s assistance.

Trump and his supporters have called the investigation a “hoax” despite multiple government reviews showing Moscow interfered on behalf of the campaign.

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The indictment against Comey, however, doesn’t center on the Russia investigation. It accuses Comey of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he said he had not authorized anyone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about a particular investigation.

It appears from the context to refer to an FBI inquiry related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat who ran for president against Trump in 2016.

Trump, who has repeatedly called Comey a “bad person,” celebrated the indictment.

“He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation,” the president said on his social media platform.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, leader of House Democrats, said the indictment is a “disgraceful attack on the rule of law.”

Comey scorched Trump in book

Comey’s disgust for Trump was laid out in his 2018 memoir, “A Higher Loyalty.”

“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” Comey wrote. “His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.”

He recalled a private meeting with Trump early in his first presidency in which Trump demanded allegiance. Comey likened it to a mafia induction.

Earlier this year, the Trump administration said it was investigating a social media post by Comey that Trump and his allies interpreted as a call for violence against the president.

In an Instagram post, Comey wrote “cool shell formation on my beach walk” under a picture of seashells that appeared to form the shapes for “86 47.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary says 86 is slang meaning “to throw out,” “get rid of” or “refuse service to,” and Trump is the 47th president.

Comey deleted the post and said he didn’t know “some folks associate those numbers with violence.”

Family ties

Comey’s daughter was a federal prosecutor for 10 years until she was fired in July by the Justice Department. Maurene Comey is suing to get her job back, saying her dismissal was unconstitutional and connected to Trump’s hostility toward her father.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” Maurene Comey said in a note to her colleagues. “Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”

The White House said the decision came from Justice Department officials.

Separately, James Comey’s son-in-law, Troy Edwards, resigned as a federal prosecutor minutes after the former FBI director was indicted.

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO

BROADVIEW, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters near an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago on Friday.

The conflict over several hours is the latest pushback by federal authorities against protesters focused on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Broadview, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) west of Chicago, amid a surge of immigration enforcement that began early this month.

Agents repeatedly fired chemical agents toward a crowd of over 100 protesters after some of the group attempted to block a car from driving down a street toward the ICE building. The pepper bullets and tear gas canisters went into the entire crowd, most of them standing far back from the fence and not blocking any traffic.

Protesters fell to the ground and ran as agents repeatedly fired, dispersing most of the crowd. Some protesters pulled one another off the ground and poured water in each other’s eyes when out of the parking lot by the facility.

In previous weeks, protesters had also tried to block agents’ vehicles from moving in or out of a yard next to the building. A fence installed Tuesday pushed Friday’s demonstrators farther away.

Activists and family members of detainees have raised concerns in recent days that the facility meant to process arrestees is a de facto detention center plagued by inhumane conditions. Advocates say up to 200 people are being held there at a time, with some held up to five days in a space that doesn’t have showers or a cafeteria. Immigrants report they are being given little food, water and limited access to medication.

Earlier in the morning, a handful of protesters yelled and rang bells at a section of the fence closer to the building. Agents shot the first round of pepper bullets Friday morning toward protesters using ribbons to tie handwritten messages of support for detainees onto the fence, including “No human is illegal,” and “We stand with you! You are not illegal!”

Protesters and agents yelled expletives at one another when federal immigration agents pulled signs and flags off the fence surrounding the building.

Bushra Amiwala, a 27-year-old elected official on the Skokie Board of Education, said an agent on the roof of the facility shot her with pepper bullets while she tied notes on the wall, causing her to cough and have trouble breathing.

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“They caught us so incredibly off guard,” she said as remnants of the white powder clung to her pants and hijab. “We literally were just tying notes on the wall.”

Amiwala called the use of chemical agents “fully unprovoked.”

Village officials have demanded the “illegally built” fence be removed over security concerns from the fire department. It remained in place Friday.

It was not immediately clear if anyone was arrested. Federal officials said multiple people were arrested in last week’s protests at the same location and characterized those arrested as “rioters.”

By BERENICE BAUTISTA

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The long-held secrets of the Kahlo family, including those of legendary artist Frida, are about to be unlocked for the world with the opening of the Casa Kahlo Museum this weekend.

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Although located very close to the iconic Casa Azul in Coyoacán’s historic center, the Casa Kahlo Museum is a different place with an intertwined history. This house belonged to Frida Kahlo’s parents, who bought it after giving her the Casa Azul — where she grew up and lived with Diego Rivera — as a wedding gift.

While the Kahlo House features elements familiar to Frida Kahlo fans — like a traditional kitchen and garden — its true value is the new perspective it provides on her life. It reveals intimate details about her close-knit family, including her photographer father, Guillermo, and her sister and caregiver, Cristina.

“You can find a more humane approach to her story, to her origins,” said museum director Adán García, adding that visitors will see that behind the great artist was a child who “struggled with polio and who was fond of her father and her mother.”

Frida herself lived in the house for a time, and it was inhabited by her relatives until just two years ago.

A portrait of Frida Kahlo by Mexican photographer Wallace Marly is displayed in the new museum Casa Kahlo, a house bought by Kahlo’s father after he gave the iconic Casa Azul to his daughter as a wedding gift, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

The Associated Press took an exclusive tour of this new museum that includes the only murals painted by Kahlo on record.

The basement

As a child, Frida Kahlo loved to collect insects and use a microscope to see their wings. That microscope is in the basement of the Kahlo House, a very special place for the painter. It was there where, already married to Diego Rivera, she used to find a space for herself.

“When she fought with Diego, she would come here to the basement for refuge,” said Frida Kahlo’s great-niece, Mara Romeo Kahlo. “It was like her place of peace; this was her home.”

Asian dolls Frida Kahlo purchased during a trip to San Francisco are displayed in the basement inside the new museum Casa Kahlo in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

The basement also features a unique collection, including votive offerings painted by Frida and Asian dolls she purchased during a trip to San Francisco.

The kitchen

Romeo Kahlo remembers having breakfast in the kitchen surrounded by murals of flowers and fruit trees. The murals were created by Frida and inspired by the plants found in the house’s garden. The murals were painted over during a kitchen modernization, which paradoxically helped preserve them. After special treatment, they can now be seen in all their splendor.

The murals bear an inscription that reads “the inn of the sparrows,” a Spanish pun on the word gorrones — or uninvited guests — that sounds like gorriones (sparrows), who came to eat at the house.

“Anyone who came, whether invited or not, could always find a place at this table,” said García, the museum director.

The darkroom

Visitors can step into the photography studio of Frida’s father, where an interactive camera takes virtual black-and-white photos, demonstrating the process of developing on paper.

A view of the darkroom that belonged to Frida Kahlo’s father, Guillermo, who was the first official photographer for Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, inside the new museum Casa Kahlo in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

The museum also displays photographs of a young Guillermo Kahlo and tells the story of how he arrived in Mexico from his native Germany. It also details his first marriage, his two daughters, and how he met Frida’s mother, Matilde Calderón. A celebrated photographer, Kahlo was the first official photographer for Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.

The other half of Frida’s heart

In order for Frida to endure the many surgeries she went through in her adult life, she had someone by her side who took care of her: her younger sister Cristina.

“She used to talk about her like she was the other half of her heart,” García said.

Cristina Kahlo, a single mother herself, founded a charity to help hundreds of other women in the same situation as her.

Frida Kahlo’s great-niece Mara Romeo Kahlo speak during an interview inside the new museum Casa Kahlo where visitors will see dresses with intricate embroidery and pieces of pre-Hispanic jewelry that Frida famously wore in photographs, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Every Saturday, Romeo Kahlo remembers, “the gate was opened here and a basic food basket was given for more than 500 single women.”

The new museum also highlights Frida’s relationship with her mother, a figure who has been historically overshadowed by her father.

“The truth is that they had a close relationship,” Romeo Kahlo said, noting that her great-grandmother Matilde was actually the first to wear flowers in her hair — a look long associated with Frida.

The family decided to paint the house red and keep it that way over the years, because this color symbolizes “the heart of the Kahlo family,” she said.

Other notable objects

The museum provides a glimpse into the Kahlo family’s extensive correspondence, including letters from Frida marked with kisses of Mexican pink lipstick.

“These letters provided the guideline to write all these anecdotes that you’ll discover throughout the museum,” said curator Adriana Miranda.

Visitors will see dresses with intricate embroidery and pieces of pre-Hispanic jewelry that Frida famously wore in photographs.

The bathroom is intact and recalls Frida Kahlo’s 1938 painting “What the Water Gave Me,” featuring her feet in a bathtub.

A corridor displays a mirror that Frida had made for an exhibition in New York. In another room, “A Tray of Poppies” — one of Frida Kahlo’s first works — is on view.

A local architecture

David Rockwell, an architect and board member of the Kahlo Foundation, collaborated with the family to create the exhibition spaces. Some sections such as the curved steps in the courtyard were rebuilt to more closely resemble the house in its original state.

He said artists from all over Mexico were commissioned to create the different pots and pieces that make up the patio.

“The thing I love about this house is the warmth. The warmth of the material, the warmth of tile, the quality of the wood, the care that’s been taken into restoring it,” said Rockwell, noting the ceilings are a particular favorite material of the house. “All these ceilings are quite different, they all create different kinds of atmospheres and conditions.”

The museum is located at Aguayo 54, in the Carmen neighborhood of Coyoacán in Mexico City.

By DIDI TANG, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of a House committee that pushed for the law demanding TikTok be spun off from its Chinese owners has requested an urgent briefing from the White House, one day after Trump signed an executive order supporting a proposed deal that would put the popular social video platform under U.S. ownership.

In a statement released Friday, Rep. John Moolenaar, the chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, praised the proposed deal as “an important step” in transitioning ownership of the TikTok platform to American hands but he emphasized that “divestment was not the law’s only requirement.”

“The law also set firm guardrails that prohibit cooperation between ByteDance and any prospective TikTok successor on the all-important recommendation algorithm, as well as preclude operational ties between the new entity and ByteDance,” Moolenaar said.

The Michigan Republican’s statement marks the first congressional effort to conduct oversight into the negotiations over TikTok, coming nearly two weeks after Chinese and American officials met in Spain to discuss a framework divestment deal for TikTok. Trump on Thursday signed an executive order providing support for the deal, and said Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to move forward with negotiations.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry from the Associated Press regarding the urgent briefing.

It’s more than the algorithm

Much is still unknown about the actual deal in the works, but the new U.S. venture would license the famed ByteDance-owned algorithm that currently keeps TikTok users engaged. U.S. tech giant Oracle, a confirmed partner in the U.S. investment consortium that would own TikTok, would audit the copy of the algorithm and monitor it for security purposes.

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday assured the public that the deal would not only keep TikTok operating but also protect Americans’ data privacy as required by law. Moolenaar on Friday said he would like to know more.

While algorithms are valuable assets, the real value of TikTok is its users, which is likely why the consortium won’t just start from scratch to build a new app, said computer scientist Bart Knijnenburg, an associate professor at Clemson University who has studied how recommendation systems steer people to online content.

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Knijnenburg said all algorithms are biased in some way and if the administration is serious about retraining the TikTok algorithm to avoid Chinese influence, it should push for “radical openness” in TikTok’s mechanics so that users have a window into how bias might be influencing their feeds.

More than politics, Knijnenburg said the biggest problem with TikTok’s algorithm is that it’s geared toward addictive engagement and overuse.

“Moving it to the U.S. is not going to magically solve these types of problems,” he said. “Any company might put undue influence on these applications and from a business perspective, the best way to engage users is to make them addicted to watching these videos, which is not a good idea.”

ByteDance’s representation in the new venture

Craig Singleton, senior China fellow at the Washington-based think tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies, doubts that the deal, as revealed so far, complies with the law.

“The law is clear: divestiture means severance, not supervision,” Singleton said. “A board seat for ByteDance or any continued role in maintaining the algorithm would flout Congress’s mandate.”

Though the details have yet to be finalized, the U.S. investment group’s controlling stake in the new venture would be around 80%. While ByteDance is expected to have a stake in the new venture, it would be less than 20% — a portion of the ownership reserved for foreign investors. The board running the new platform would be controlled by U.S. investors. ByteDance will be represented by one person on the board, but that individual will be excluded from any security-related matters.

Singleton argues that a board foothold by ByteDance is not merely symbolic. “ByteDance’s reported role as the largest single shareholder in a restructured TikTok U.S. venture, combined with a board seat, ensures continuing Chinese influence over the app,” he said. “Plainly put, ByteDance on the board means Beijing in the building.”

Is TikTok undervalued in this deal?

Vance said he expects the new U.S.-based TikTok to be valued at about $14 billion, describing it as a “good deal” for investors who must ultimately decide “what they want to invest in and what they think is the proper value.”

That’s a “surprisingly low” valuation, said Daniel Keum, a management professor at Columbia University’s business school.

Keum said it’s possible that “politics overrode the business case” or that the licensing structure, which hasn’t yet been disclosed, could have been designed with high fees or profit-sharing that depressed the value of TikTok’s app in the U.S.

Keum said TikTok had an early edge in attracting youth to its innovative video-sharing format, but its competitiveness has “fundamentally eroded” as social media creators and influencers increasingly post their videos on many different apps.

As TikTok’s popularity soared among young Americans in the past several years, U.S. lawmakers grew concerned that Beijing — viewed by many on the Capitol Hill as the biggest geopolitical rival to the U.S. — could use the platform to influence public discourse in the United States.

“ByteDance has shown time and again that it is a bad actor, and the Chinese Communist Party’s ultimate goal is to see America divided and weakened,” Moolenaar said in his statement. “That is why, on an overwhelming bipartisan basis, Congress required ByteDance to divest control of TikTok.”

President Joe Biden signed legislation passed by Congress last year that would ban TikTok unless ByteDance sold its U.S. assets to an American company by early this year. The U.S. Supreme Court in January unanimously upheld the TikTok law.

Trump, after he returned to the White House, has repeatedly signed orders that have allowed TikTok to keep operating in the U.S. as his administration tries to reach an agreement for the sale of the company.

On Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry didn’t provide any new information but repeated China’s position on TikTok.

“The Chinese government respects the will of enterprises and welcomes them to conduct sound commercial negotiations based on market rules, reaching solutions that comply with Chinese laws and regulations and achieve a balanced outcome of interests,” said Guo Jiakun, a ministry spokesperson. “We hope the U.S. will provide an open, fair, and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese enterprises investing in the United States.”

AP Writer Matt O’Brien contributed to this report.