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Annual Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations make adjustments in current political climate 09/14/2025 09:59am • Each year during Hispanic Heritage Month, huge celebrations can be expected across the U.S. to showcase the diversity and culture of Hispanic people. This year, the Trump administration's immigration crackdowns, a federally led English-only initiative and an anti-diversity, equity and inclusion p Bell wins at Bristol, completing sweep in first round of NASCAR Cup playoffs for Joe Gibbs Racing 09/14/2025 12:28am • BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) ��� Joe Gibbs Racing completed a clean sweep of the first round in the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs as Christopher Bell charged to a victory Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway. Bell went from fourth to first on the final restart and led the last four laps at the 0.533-mile oval, en They witnessed Charlie Kirk���s assassination. Now students reckon with the trauma 09/13/2025 10:28pm • OREM, Utah (AP) ��� One student holed up in his house for two days after witnessing Charlie Kirk���s assassination, nervous about going back to the Utah college campus where the conservative activist was shot. Another, unable to sleep or shake what she saw and heard, called her dad to come take her California to extend cap-and-trade program aimed at advancing state climate goals 09/13/2025 07:17pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ��� California will extend a key climate program under a bill state lawmakers passed Saturday, sending the measure to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has championed it as a crucial tool to respond to the Trump administration���s environmental rollbacks. The Democrat-dominated Legislat Latino leaders condemn ICE over incidents in Chicago, including driver's fatal shooting 09/13/2025 06:58pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Latino leaders expressed dismay Saturday over recent immigration enforcement operations in Chicago that resulted in a fatal shooting during a traffic stop, the arrest of an immigrant at a barbershop and a tense standoff between protesters and agents at an immigration processing faci Iraq's Yazidis rediscover lost history through photos found in a museum archive 09/13/2025 12:04pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Archeologists studying ancient civilizations in northern Iraq during the 1930s also befriended the nearby Yazidi community, documenting their daily lives in photographs that were rediscovered after the Islamic State militant group devastated the tiny religious minority. The bla Ghana's fantasy coffins are a colorful celebration of life and legacy 09/13/2025 01:17am • ACCRA, Ghana (AP) ��� A giant pink fish, a colorful peacock, an airplane painted with the national flag. These are just some of Ghana's fantasy coffins, known as Abebuo, which translates to ���proverb.��� Each piece is crafted not just to bury the deceased, but to embody the essence of their life. A AJ Allmendinger leads qualifying at Bristol for 1st NASCAR Cup pole in 10 years 09/12/2025 10:23pm • BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) ��� AJ Allmendinger upstaged the NASCAR Cup Series playoff drivers at Bristol Motor Speedway, capturing the pole for Saturday night���s first-round cutoff race on the 0.533-mile oval. The Kaulig Racing driver qualified first for the first time in 10 years, turning a 15.117-second NHRA Reading Nationals Qualifying 09/12/2025 07:53pm • Friday At Maple Grove Raceway Mohnton, Pa. Qualifying after two rounds TOP FUEL 1. Clay Millican, 3.704 seconds, 336.32 mph; 2. Justin Ashley, 3.738, 331.69; 3. Doug Kalitta, 3.756, 335.40; 4. Shawn Reed, 3.758, 328.46; 5. Shawn Langdon, 3.762, 333.49; 6. Steve Torrence, 3.778, 332.34; 7. Tony Schum ICE officer fatally shoots suspect after being dragged by car near Chicago, officials say 09/12/2025 07:29pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest Friday in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them, officials said. The shooting outside the city follows days of threats by the Trump administration t 6 more officers fired over handling of domestic violence-fueled triple homicide in South Florida 09/12/2025 06:57pm • A South Florida sheriff's office has fired six more deputies and disciplined 11 others for their handling of the case of Mary Gingles, a woman who investigators say was murdered by her estranged husband after she had warned officers for months that she feared he would kill her. Two officers had prev The Latest: Trump says he���ll send National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns 09/12/2025 06:32pm • President Donald Trump said Friday he���ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor. Since sending the National Guard to Los Angeles and Washington, the Republican president has openly mused about sending troops to other cities Vibrant fall foliage in the forecast for the DC area 09/12/2025 06:30pm • Anyone itching to sip pumpkin spice lattes during sweater weather and go leaf peeping will be happy to hear that the forecast for this year's fall foliage is "vibrant." That's according to Aaron Cook, a forester with the Maryland Forest Service. "We had a wet spring, a reasonably wet beginning Dillon, Larson feeling optimistic at Bristol with NASCAR Cup playoff eliminations looming 09/12/2025 02:30pm • Austin Dillon and Kyle Larson have the same goal ��� reaching the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs ��� but divergent paths to get there at Bristol Motor Speedway. Entering Saturday night���s 500-lap cutoff race at the treacherous short track in Tennessee, Dillon is on the verge of bein Brittany Force, 'Queen of Speed,' to retire after record-breaking season to start a family 09/12/2025 11:00am • Not long after Brittany Force went 343.51 mph in the fastest run in NHRA history, the two-time Top Fuel world champion announced Friday she is retiring at the end of the season to focus on starting a family. Force, the second of four drag racing daughters of 16-time champion John Force, married Bob