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Black Friday arrives with solid momentum despite tariffs and economic uncertainty 11/27/2025 12:45am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Black Friday may no longer be the retail bacchanalia of years past, when the promise of one-time bargains caused people to leave Thanksgiving tables for malls where some customers got into fistfights over toys or TVs. But the event still has enough enthusiasts to make it the bigges 2 National Guard members shot in an ambush attack just blocks from the White House 11/26/2025 11:07pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation���s capital were shot Wednesday afternoon just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence that the mayor described as a targeted attack. FBI Director Kash Patel and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser sai Thousands protest in Bulgaria before budget with steep tax increases gets final approval 11/26/2025 10:43pm • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Thousands took to the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria���s capital, Wednesday to denounce steep tax increases in next year���s draft budget before its final vote in parliament. The opposition coalition We Continue the Change ��� Democratic Bulgaria organized the rally, which drew Utah death row inmate with dementia dies 3 months after court blocked his execution 11/26/2025 09:24pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, according to the state's Department of Corrections. Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, was set to die by firing squad in September, but th The Latest: West Virginia National Guard members shot near White House 11/26/2025 08:48pm • Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation���s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence. The West Virginia governor initially said the troops had died, but later walked back the statement to say the office was ���receiving conf WATCH: When to travel in the DC area before Thanksgiving 11/26/2025 06:35pm • Are you traveling by car on this Thanksgiving eve? A Google tech expert told WTOP they predict the best time to drive Wednesday in the D.C. area is before 10 a.m. or after 8 p.m. The worst time to be on the road ahead of Thanksgiving is between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. WTOP���s Luke Lukert spoke with t Car passenger dies after crash with Fairfax County ambulance 11/26/2025 06:20pm • The passenger of a car has died after the vehicle they were in struck a Fairfax County, Virginia, ambulance that was on its way to an emergency. It happened Tuesday afternoon��at Worldgate Drive and Alton Square in Herndon. A Fairfax County ambulance with its "full emergency equipment activate Court transcripts show Border Patrol official Greg Bovino dodging questions about use of force 11/26/2025 06:01pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Newly released transcripts of private interviews with a senior U.S. Border Patrol official and other authorities leading the immigration crackdown in the Chicago area reveal tense exchanges as leaders dodged questions about high-profile uses of force. Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol 3 men charged in shooting death of rising Latin singer DELAROSA in LA 11/26/2025 03:22pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Prosecutors charged three men Wednesday with murder in the death of 22-year-old Maria De La Rosa, who was shot over the weekend while sitting in a parked car in Los Angeles. De La Rosa, a Latin artist who performs under the name DELAROSA, was with two other people Saturday morni Gratitude and doubt: The effects of the shutdown linger as families prepare for Thanksgiving 11/26/2025 02:36pm • She had it figured down to the last dollar. The looming insurance payment, balanced against the hard-earned paycheck. The cost of keeping her children fed, covered mostly with government SNAP assistance. And when Shelby Williams reviewed the family budget for November, she told herself that this mon UK's unpopular Labour government tries to fight back with a tax-raising budget 11/26/2025 12:18pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease cost-of-living pressures. But the budget's contents were leaked half an hour before Under glare of world's media, Pope Leo XIV to visit Turkey and Lebanon on first foreign trip 11/26/2025 11:58am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history���s first American pope on the road. Leo is fulf A foot-tall elephant? 'Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age' on Apple TV reveals surprising creatures 11/26/2025 11:39am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� If you���ve seen any of the ���Ice Age��� animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don���t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense systemic changes and was filled with often nightmarish creatures ��� carnivorous kangaroos, No. 7 Texas Tech focused on Saturday's matchup at West Virginia and not what lies beyond 11/26/2025 10:50am • MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) ��� A berth in the Big 12 championship game and a chance to win its first league title. A spot in the College Football Playoff. National title aspirations. All of those possibilities are still ahead for Texas Tech. And those dreams could start going sideways if the Red Raiders Man pleads guilty to ramming crowd at Liverpool soccer parade 11/26/2025 10:32am • LONDON (AP) ��� A driver accused of injuring more than 100 people by ramming his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool���s Premier League championship dramatically changed his plea to guilty as his trial got underway on Wednesday. Paul Doyle, 54, sobbed as he admitted dangerous drivi