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National Guard arrives in New Orleans for 1st New Year's since Bourbon Street attack 12/30/2025 08:17pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� National Guard members arrived in New Orleans Tuesday to help with safety measures ahead of New Year's celebrations as city officials are still seeking permanent security solutions nearly a year after a truck attack on Bourbon Street left 14 dead. The rampage, in which a man dr 9 Highest Dividend-Paying Stocks in the S&P 500 12/30/2025 07:00pm • As we close out 2025, most investors are likely sitting on nice returns. The broader stock market shrugged off economic and policy uncertainty all year and the S&P 500 is up 17.3% on the year as a result. Certain stocks in the tech sector, such as AI darling Nvidia Corp. (ticker: NVDA), have don What Are Discover's Rewards Categories Right Now? 12/30/2025 07:00pm • The potential to earn cash back is a favorite feature among those who frequently use credit cards. Today's best credit cards let customers earn 5% cash back or more, sometimes with no annual fee. Discover customers can use this benefit, as the card issuer maintains a cash back calendar with multiple If You're in Student Loan Default, Trump Might Start Garnishing Your Wages. Now What? 12/30/2025 07:00pm • Some student loan borrowers may discover an alarming letter in their mailbox in the coming weeks: A notice that the federal government is coming for their paycheck. The Department of Education has confirmed its plans to begin garnishing wages of student loan borrowers who are in default, dusting off No. 3 Georgia is eager to make better Sugar Bowl memories while No. 6 Ole Miss eyes payback 12/30/2025 06:29pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� For the Georgia Bulldogs and coach Kirby Smart, last year's Sugar Bowl brought a heavy dose of sadness that had more to do with life ��� and the loss of it ��� than football. As fate would have it, the third-ranked Bulldogs (12-1, No. 3 seed CFP) are back one year later to take Nuggets star Nikola Jokic hyperextended his left knee and will be evaluated in 4 weeks 12/30/2025 05:56pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Nikola Jokic is only going to miss a few weeks, which is surely cause for the Denver Nuggets to take a giant sigh of relief. The Nuggets' superstar center has been diagnosed with a hyperextended left knee, the team said Tuesday, adding that the three-time MVP will be re-evaluated in f Judge temporarily halts Trump���s move to end protected status for South Sudanese immigrants 12/30/2025 05:47pm • Hundreds of people from South Sudan may be able to live and work in the United States legally, while a federal judge on Tuesday weighs whether President Donald Trump's move to revoke temporary protected status for immigrants from the East African country was illegal. The termination was set to take Kennedy Center renaming prompts a new round of cancellations 12/30/2025 05:29pm • The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump's name was added to the facility, prompting the institution's president to accuse the performers of making their decisions because of politics. The Cookers Flu is rising rapidly, driven by a new variant. Here's what to know 12/30/2025 05:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Flu is rising rapidly across the U.S., driven by a new variant of the virus ��� and cases are expected to keep growing with holiday travel. That variant, known as ���subclade K,��� led to early outbreaks in the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. In the U.S., flu typically begin Indiana WR Omar Cooper Jr. ready for Rose Bowl after sustaining leg injury in Big Ten championship 12/30/2025 05:14pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Omar Cooper Jr.���s game-winning catch for No. 1 Indiana against Penn State is the kind of play that gets remembered forever, especially if the Hoosiers go on to claim their first national title. Cooper is ready for the next step in that College Football Playoff push, a quarterf Patriots star receiver Stefon Diggs faces strangulation charge, denies allegations 12/30/2025 05:00pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� New England Patriots star wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with a dispute with his former private chef, police said. News of the charges emerged after a court hearing Tuesday in Dedham, Massachusetts. Diggs is charged with fe A Colombian city swaps iconic horse buggies for electric carriages amid animal welfare concerns 12/30/2025 04:58pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� The Colombian city of Cartagena began replacing its iconic horse buggies with electric carriages Tuesday, following years of protests by animal rights activists, who argued that horses pulling 19th-century-like coaches for tourists suffered from exploitation and poor health Oysters, crab and $400,000 worth of lobster meat stolen in New England 12/30/2025 04:46pm • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� Imagine the buffet. Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all were stolen in separate incidents within weeks of each other in New England. The first seafood vanished on Nov. 22 in Falmouth, Maine, where authorities suspect someone stole 14 cage Sports on TV for Wednesday, Dec. 31 12/30/2025 04:45pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Dec. 31 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN���S) Noon ESPN2 ��� Wake Forest at NC State ESPNU ��� Tulane at East Carolina 2 p.m. ACCN ��� Virginia at Virginia Tech CBSSN ��� Stony Brook at William & Mary ESPN2 ��� Clemson at Syracuse Jeremiah Smith opted for Ohio State, and now faces his hometown Hurricanes in CFP Cotton Bowl 12/30/2025 03:49pm • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Jeremiah Smith was answering questions only a few feet away from his coach when Ryan Day was asked how different the Cotton Bowl would be for defending national champion Ohio State had the AP All-America receiver opted to sign with his hometown Miami team in recruiting. ���