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Veterans Affairs Department reimposing near total abortion ban 12/26/2025 10:37am • The Veterans Affairs Department is reimposing a near total ban on abortions for veterans and their families after a Justice Department memo from the Office of Legal Counsel last week asserted that it's against federal law for the VA to provide them in most instances.VA press secretary Pete Sports on TV for Dec. 27 - 28 12/26/2025 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Dec. 27 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11 a.m. ESPN ��� Go Bowling Military Bowl: Pittsburgh vs. East Carolina, Annapolis, Md. Noon ABC ��� Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl: Penn St. vs. Clemson, New York 2:15 p.m. ESPN ��� Wasabi Fenway Bowl: Sports on TV for Dec. 29 - Jan. 4 12/26/2025 10:00am • Adv27-28 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Dec. 29 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN���S) 1 p.m. BTN ��� NC Central at Penn St. 3 p.m. BTN ��� Southern U. at Illinois 5 p.m. BTN ��� Mass.-Lowell at Iowa 6 p.m. SECN ��� Dartmouth at Florida 7 p.m. CBSSN ��� UNC-Wilmington Japan's Cabinet OKs record defense budget that aims to deter China 12/26/2025 07:46am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, aiming to fortify its strike-back capability and coastal defense with cruise missiles and unmanned arsenals as tensions rise in the region. The draft budget for ICYMI: Close out 2025 with these great reads from AP 12/26/2025 07:26am • As 2025 wraps up, The Associated Press has curated a list of memorable stories and enjoyable reads published this year that you may have missed in the flurry of news and the busyness of living. There are storybook endings and heartbreak. Some are stranger than fiction, and others take you behind the Federal funding shifts cloud Virginia���s transportation plans for 2026 12/26/2025 07:07am • Virginia���s transportation system is massive, with about 129,000 lane miles of roads and roughly 5,900 miles of rail criss-crossing the commonwealth, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation and a 2022 Virginia Statewide Rail Plan. There���s always some kind of improvement or expan Minnesota looks to stretch bowl winning streak to 9 when it faces New Mexico in Rate Bowl 12/26/2025 02:17am • PHOENIX (AP) ��� Opting out has become the in thing to do. Every year, players regularly choose not to play in bowl games, some wary of injuries affecting their pro prospects, others leaving for another school or sitting out after a coaching change. Entire teams even opt out. Minnesota still finds p Afghanistan's historic Ariana Cinema torn down to make way for shopping center 12/26/2025 12:21am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� Through the decades, downtown Kabul���s Ariana Cinema had weathered revolution and war, emerging battered and bruised but still standing to entertain Afghans with Bollywood movies and American action flicks. Now, it is no more. On Dec. 16, demolition crews began to tear Nix's late TD pass and stand by Broncos defense finishes off 20-13 win over Chiefs 12/26/2025 12:18am • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� Broncos coach Sean Payton sent his offense back onto the field on fourth down Thursday night, the ball inside the Kansas City Chiefs' 10-yard line and less than 2 minutes left on the clock ��� and no intention of ever snapping it. Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones didn't Amid a battery boom, graphite mining gets a fresh look in the US 12/26/2025 12:02am • GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (AP) ��� Graphite mines in the United States largely closed down seven decades ago. Mining the ubiquitous mineral found in everything from nuclear reactors to pencils seemed to make little sense when it could be imported inexpensively from other nations, especially China. That view Mohammad Bakri, renowned and controversial Palestinian actor and filmmaker, dies at 72 12/25/2025 08:53pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in both Arabic and Hebrew, has died, his family announced. He was 72. Bakri was best known for ���Jenin, Jenin,��� a 2003 doc How many is 96,000? Key housing number cited by Md. Gov. Moore is hard to explain 12/25/2025 04:58pm • Since he took office in 2023, Gov. Wes Moore (D) has made housing a focus of his administration, and nearly every speech, proclamation and press release since then has featured the state���s 96,000-unit housing shortage. Does that mean there are 96,000 unhoused people in the state? Hardly. The nu Christmas Eve winner in Arkansas lands a $1.817 billion Powerball lottery jackpot 12/25/2025 04:19pm • A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game���s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. The winning numbers were 04, 25, 31, 52 and 59, with the Powerball number being Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering 12/25/2025 02:45pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who are impoverished, such as in Yemen, and the many migrants who cross the Mediterranean Sea and the Am Fairfax Co. prepares for firehouse primary Sunday as voters look to elect new House District 17 delegate 12/25/2025 02:41pm • Voters in Fairfax County, Virginia, will soon be hitting the polls in 2026 to elect a new delegate to fill the House District 17 seat left open by departing Del. Mark Sickles. Residents were officially given notice of a call to caucus in a Wednesday announcement by the Fairfax County Democratic C