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Top 10 most popular videos on WTOP in 2023 12/29/2023 04:27am • In 2023, everyone could get their 15 minutes of fame — whether they wanted it or not. Only in the case of viral videos on WTOP's social media platforms, those 15 minutes last roughly 90 seconds or so. To cap off the year, we compiled a list of our 10 most-played videos on Instagram, from fun an Iran executes four people for alleged links with Israel’s Mossad 12/29/2023 02:54am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran executed on Friday four people and sentenced several others to prison for having alleged links with Israel’s Mossad security service, local media reported. Mizan, the news website affiliated with the country’s judiciary, said three men and one woman were executed Frida Death of ‘Parasite’ star puts spotlight on pressures facing South Korean celebrities 12/28/2023 11:32pm • Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Actor Lee Sun-kyun’s sudden death this week is the latest in a string of shock celebrity losses in South Korea, a country with one of the world’s highest suicide rates and where public figures are often expected to be paragons.Lee, who received acclaim for his ro $25M lawsuit claims Deshazor Everett, 2 other Washington football players were racing before 2021 fatal crash 12/28/2023 10:47pm • The mother of a woman killed in a 2021 crash while riding in a car driven by former Washington football player Deshazor Everett in Loudoun County, Virginia, has filed a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against Everett, two current Washington players and a friend. The filing by Kathleen Peters n Man shot his mother then led Vegas police on chase as he carjacked bystanders, killing father of 7 12/28/2023 09:17pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who authorities say fatally shot his mother two days after Christmas led police officers on a chase through the suburbs of Las Vegas and, along the way, stole a police vehicle and carjacked bystanders at gunpoint, shooting and killing one of them. The victim killed in what L Judge rejects Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez's request to delay his May bribery trial for two months 12/28/2023 07:45pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The New York federal judge scheduled to preside over the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez rejected on Thursday a defense request to delay the start of jury selection from May to July. Judge Sidney H. Stein's order leaves in place a May 5 trial date in Manhattan for the New J Live updates | Israel expands offensive as Hamas warns only permanent ceasefire will free hostages 12/28/2023 07:10pm • A Hamas official said Thursday that a “partial or temporary cessation of aggression” wouldn’t be enough to free the more than 100 hostages who Israel says remain in captivity in Gaza. The Israeli-Hamas war has already driven around 85% of Gaza's 2.3 million people from their homes, leveling t Israeli strikes across Gaza kill dozens of Palestinians, even in largely emptied north 12/28/2023 07:04pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces bombarded cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza on Thursday, killing dozens of people in a widening air and ground offensive against Hamas that has forced thousands more to flee from homes and shelters in recent days. The war has already killed Personal Loan Statistics and Trends to Watch in 2024 12/28/2023 07:00pm • Consumers are increasingly turning to unsecured personal loans to achieve their financial goals, whether they want to knock out home improvement projects, consolidate high-interest credit card debt or simply pay for an unexpected car repair. Personal loan balances have ballooned -- both at the indiv Storm Gerrit disrupts trains and leaves thousands without power as it batters northern UK 12/28/2023 05:43pm • LONDON (AP) — A storm that battered the U.K. with high winds and heavy snow and rain damaged houses, canceled trains and left thousands of people without electricity on Thursday across Scotland and parts of northern England. Workers faced wind speeds of 80 miles (128 kilometers) per hour in some c Virginia mom asks Taylor Swift fans for help with her daughter and boy did they respond 12/28/2023 04:48pm • Click here for updates on this story CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Virginia (WTVR) — Like many mother-daughter relationships, Sarah Blanks and her daughter Abby have a special one. Along with a deep love for each other, the pair also share a love for Taylor Swift. Mother Sarah claims she was a Swifty Texas has arrested thousands on trespassing charges at the border. Illegal crossings are still high 12/28/2023 03:21pm • EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Before settling in New York City like thousands of other migrants this year, Abdoul, a 32-year-old from West Africa, took an unexpected detour: Weeks in a remote Texas jail on local trespassing charges after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. "I spent a lot of hours without Mbongeni Ngema, South African playwright and creator of 'Sarafina!', is killed in a car crash at 68 12/28/2023 01:15pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Renowned South African playwright, producer and composer Mbongeni Ngema, the creator of the Broadway hit “Sarafina!”, has died in a car crash at the age of 68, his family said. Ngema was killed in a head-on accident while returning from a funeral in a rural town in Eastern Mexican officials clear border camp as US pressure mounts to limit migrant crossings 12/28/2023 01:15pm • MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — A ragged migrant tent camp next to the Rio Grande is a long way from Mexico's National Palace, where a U.S. delegation met this week with Mexico's president seeking more action to curb a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. border. But as Mexican officials in the city of Ma 3 years after White’s Ferry closed, Md. group feels ‘betrayed’ 12/28/2023 10:06am • On the third anniversary of the shutdown of historic White’s Ferry, which runs between Montgomery County, Maryland, and Loudoun County, Virginia, people on the Maryland side of the Potomac River say they feel "beyond frustrated" and "betrayed," that the ferry remains closed with "no end to the sta