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Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged even as Trump continues to insist they be lowered 01/28/2026 05:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Federal Reserve pushed the pause button on its interest rate cuts Wednesday, leaving its key rate unchanged at about 3.6% after lowering it three times last year. Chair Jerome Powell said at a news conference after the central bank announced its decision that the economy's ou Dozens of water main leaks and breaks have WSSC Water crews busy 01/28/2026 05:18pm • WSSC Water continues to ask customers to conserve water ��� as heightened demand from people snowed in at home coupled with an ever-growing list of water main breaks and leaks threatening to strain the system ��� which spans Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland. As of Wednesday aft Sergi L��pez on 'Sir��t': A journey that makes you look inward 01/28/2026 11:59am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� ���Sir��t,��� Spain���s latest Oscar contender, follows Luis as he treks through the North African desert with his 12-year-old son and his dog to find his missing daughter. Blending the grit of ���Mad Max��� with the underground rave culture of the 1990s, the film is set against It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain 01/28/2026 11:28am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast. Deep cold is forecast to stick around Movie Review: Jason Statham sticks close to the formula as a lethal former spy in 'Shelter' 01/28/2026 10:45am • Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in ���Shelter��� and that's a pretty good analogy for Statham's usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone, tough, quiet and only intermittently illuminating. Statham may appear to be just a grim-faced lighthouse keeper, but he's real Swedish amusement park fined over fatal roller coaster derailment 01/28/2026 10:26am • STOCKHOLM (AP) ��� A Swedish amusement park was fined nearly $590,000 on Wednesday in connection with a roller coaster derailment that left one passenger dead and nine others injured, including several children. Witnesses at the Gr��na Lund park described how the front of the Jetliner ride appeared Huge landslide leaves Sicilian homes teetering on cliff edge as 1,500 people are evacuated 01/28/2026 09:23am • ROME (AP) ��� Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited a southern town in Sicily on Wednesday that has been left teetering on the edge of a cliff after days of heavy rains from a cyclone triggered a huge landslide that brought down properties and forced the evacuation of over 1,500 people. The landsli Germany trims this year's growth forecast to 1% as its economy is slow to gather pace 01/28/2026 09:10am • BERLIN (AP) ��� The German government on Wednesday trimmed its 2026 forecast for the country's economy, Europe's biggest, as growth picks up more slowly than previously hoped. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government now expects gross domestic product to expand by about 1% this year and 1.3% in 2027, The EU is seeking new trade partnerships. Here's why 01/28/2026 05:11am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� The ambitious free trade agreement between the European Union and India underscores the EU���s efforts to ink new global partnerships at a time when the Trump administration has rattled a continent deeply tied to Washington on trade, defense and diplomacy. The agreement announced T 7 police officers won't face criminal charges after man���s restraint death in Boston suburb 01/27/2026 10:16pm • SALEM, Mass. (AP) ��� The seven officers involved in the death of a 43-year-old man who became unresponsive and died as police tried to restrain him in a Boston suburb will not face criminal charges, Essex District Attorney Paul Tucker announced Tuesday. ���After a comprehensive review of the facts, Mexican president says her country has paused oil shipments to Cuba 01/27/2026 09:10pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday her government has at least temporarily stopped oil shipments to Cuba, but struck an ambiguous tone, saying the pause was part of general fluctuations in oil supplies and that it was a ���sovereign decision��� not made under press India and the European Union reach a free trade deal representing a third of global trade 01/27/2026 08:51pm • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� India and the European Union reached a free trade agreement Tuesday that could affect as many as 2 billion people after nearly two decades of negotiations. The accord, which the head of the EU's executive branch described as the ���mother of all deals," will see free trade on almo Man who beat 4 people to death on NYC streets heard voices telling him to kill, lawyer says 01/27/2026 07:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A man on trial for bludgeoning four men to death with a metal bar as they slept on the New York City streets had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he left jail months earlier and was hearing voices telling him he needed to kill 40 people or he would die too, his lawyer told ju Labor and Delivery: What to Expect at the Hospital 01/27/2026 07:00pm • Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing -- and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery the same way, new mothers who give birth at the hospital often share overlapping experiences.. Learning a Trump's Tax Cuts: What Will Be Different When You File Taxes in 2026? 01/27/2026 07:00pm • President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law in July. The legislation made permanent many provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and ushered in numerous new and modified tax deductions. "A lot of the changes that the bill made will take effect in 2026," says Patrick