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Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall has 1-game suspension upheld 12/22/2025 01:14pm • SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) ��� Seattle Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall had his one-game suspension for unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct upheld on Monday. Hall was suspended without pay for stepping on the leg of Los Angeles Rams guard Kevin Dotson at the end of a play in the Seahawks' 38 Parity is one of the pillars of the NFL. Steelers have spent a record 22 years defying it 12/22/2025 01:11pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� The NFL is not designed to work like this. If anything, the league is designed to prevent what the Pittsburgh Steelers have done for the past 22 years and counting. In a league that considers parity one of its pillars, particularly in the salary cap era, the Steelers are an outli Former QB Jacob Rodriguez now All-America linebacker for playoff team Texas Tech 12/22/2025 12:58pm • Jacob Rodriguez was sleeping on the floor of his brother���s apartment and learning how to really play defense when he joined Texas Tech for spring practice in 2022, right after a season as a quarterback at Virginia. Suddenly a walk-on on the other side of the ball, Rodriguez even wondered if he mig Golden Gate Park's dazzling holiday light display brings joy to the season 12/22/2025 12:38pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� A new night-time holiday display featuring music, colors and more than a million twinkling lights in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is delighting children and adults. There are towering peonies and fields of lights on the mile-long ( 1.6-kilometer) illuminated trail at the c Bondi Beach shooting suspect conducted firearms training with his father, Australian police say 12/22/2025 12:38pm • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� A man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney���s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training in an area of New South Wales state outside of Sydney with his father, according to Australian police documents released on Monday. The documents, made public following Naveed Akram Addiction-stricken community struggles to keep a syringe program going after Trump's order 12/22/2025 12:35pm • JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) ��� Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, ���DO NOT USE.��� They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs. The supplies, which came from the state and were paid for with federal money, w Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions 12/22/2025 12:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump���s ���America First��� priorities. The ch Grupo Frontera heads to the Grammys with 2 nominations 12/22/2025 12:25pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Regional Mexican band Grupo Frontera is heading to the 2026 Grammys with two nominations, following a double-nod at the Latin Grammys, where they competed for best regional Mexican song and a collaboration with Fuerza Regida. While they didn't win a Latin Grammy, the band said t NYC Mayor Eric Adams once called himself the 'future of the Democratic Party.' What went wrong? 12/22/2025 12:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Four years ago, New York City Mayor Eric Adams swept into office with swaggering confidence, pledging to lead a government unlike any other in history and declaring himself the ���future of the Democratic Party.��� On the first promise, the mayor more than delivered. But as his tum Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled 12/22/2025 12:15pm • THIBODAUX, La. (AP) ��� The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and t College student deported during Thanksgiving travel describes ICE officer's intimidation 12/22/2025 11:56am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving said an immigration officer told her it wouldn���t matter if she spoke to a lawyer, she was going to be removed from the country anyway. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshm Bet365 Bonus Code WTOP365: Claim $150 Bonus for 49ers vs. Colts Monday Night Football 12/22/2025 11:37am • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services New players can sign up with bet365 bonus code WTOP365 and go all in on Monday Night Football. Set up a new account and grab a $150 bon From Broadway understudy to star: John Skelley's magical journey with Harry Potter comes full circle 12/22/2025 11:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� John Skelley can't escape the pull of Harry Potter. It's as if something magical keeps them together. The stage actor was first hired to be an understudy of the grown-up wizard in Broadway's ���Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.��� Then he led the cast in San Francisco before the p WSJ's parent firm on trial in Hong Kong, accused of dismissing reporter over union role 12/22/2025 10:41am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� A former Hong Kong reporter at the Wall Street Journal began testifying Monday against the newspaper she accuses of terminating her due to her union activities in a trial ��� a closely watched case that has raised concerns about press freedom in the city. Former WSJ reporter Seli Pop culture in 2025: A ring for Taylor, an ill-timed KissCam ... and whatever ���6-7��� means 12/22/2025 10:34am • Dictionaries define things. It���s their job. So when dictionary.com pronounced ���6-7��� as their 2025 word of the year, you���d think they would have, well, defined it. But no. ���We���re all still trying to figure out exactly what it means,��� they told us of this year���s ���linguistic time caps