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Sabres show signs of character, consistency new GM Kekalainen emphasized in replacing Adams 12/19/2025 06:00am • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ��� Two familiar sounds were missing during the Buffalo Sabres��� first game under general manager Jarmo Kekalainen. There was no hint of former GM Kevyn Adams pounding at the table in the Sabres��� executive suite next to the press box each time the team made a mistake. And there New online hub helps young DC-area filmmakers get connected��to start making movies 12/19/2025 04:37am • Finding the equipment and instruction needed to get started as a young filmmaker can be extremely difficult. The D.C. Independent Film Festival has launched a new online hub that helps fill that gap. "We hope that we are giving young people useful skills to take with them," said Deirdre Evans-Pri Worldwide attention comes to Annapolis doughnut shop featured on new TV show 12/19/2025 04:09am • Their doughnuts were licked at the start of a popular TV show. Now, people around the world are becoming fans. That���s all it took for people all over the world to become fans of Sandy Pony Donuts, which has stores in Annapolis and at the Delmarva beaches. Now, those who knew about Sandy What to know about the Bank of Japan's interest rate hike 12/19/2025 03:09am • The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as widely expected, and financial markets took the move in stride. The 0.25 percentage point hike took the BOJ's benchmark short-term rate to 0.75%, its highest level since September 1995. It will raise Seahawks overcome 16-point deficit to stun Rams 38-37 in OT in NFC West showdown 12/19/2025 02:11am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Mike Macdonald was in no mood to play for a tie, and the Los Angeles Rams��� defense had no interest in letting Sam Darnold connect with any of his top receiving options. After Darnold hit Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a touchdown in overtime, Macdonald entrusted his quarterback to win it Pro Picks: Bears and Panthers will win in first-place showdowns 12/19/2025 12:06am • So much for home-field advantage in December. Nine road teams are favorites in Week 16, including two playing in matchups for first place in three of the four NFC divisions. The Seattle Seahawks kicked off the week with a 38-37 comeback victory over the Los Angeles Rams in a battle for first place i Bucks' Antetokounmpo says his focus is on his health rather than rumors about his future 12/18/2025 11:30pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) ��� Giannis Antetokounmpo said Thursday he���s focused on getting healthy and helping the Milwaukee Bucks turn their season around, not on rumors about his future plans. Antetokounmpo spoke to reporters for the first time since a Dec. 3 ESPN report indicated that he and his agent, Ale Huibregtse and Bradley win 108-99 in 3OT against Indiana State 12/18/2025 10:38pm • TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) ��� Alex Huibregtse scored 21 points, Timoty van der Knaap added seven in the third overtime and Bradley beat Indiana State 108-99 on Thursday night in a Missouri Valley Conference opener. Jo Van Buggenhout's 61-foot 3-pointer for Indiana State made it 74-all at the end of re Trump's blockade of sanctioned Venezuelan oil raises new questions about legality 12/18/2025 09:59pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump���s ���blockade��� of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela���s coast is raising new questions about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America, while fueling concerns that the U.S. could be edging closer to war. The Trump administration says it Capitals rebound from a bad road trip, beat Maple Leafs 4-0 behind goalie Thompson 12/18/2025 09:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Logan Thompson earned his second shutout of the season, Jakob Chychrun scored twice and the Washington Capitals rebounded from a pair of ugly losses, beating the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-0 on Thursday night. The Capitals lost at Winnipeg and Minnesota by a combined 10-1, but Alia Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center 12/18/2025 09:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump���s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington���s leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that made Democrats fume, saying the board had overstepped its legal authority. Congress named the ce Kremlin envoy set to visit Miami for talks on US peace plan for Ukraine 12/18/2025 08:16pm • A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, part of the back-and-forth diplomacy as the Trump administration pushes for a potential deal. Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia���s sovereign wealth fund, is set to meet w Four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a leader in education reform, dies at 88 12/18/2025 08:07pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� Four-term North Carolina Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, a towering figure in North Carolina politics in the late 20th century who helped leaders from both major parties strive for public education reform, died Thursday at the age of 88, his daughter Lt. Gov. Rachel Hunt announced. Trump signs order to reclassify marijuana as Schedule III drug 12/18/2025 07:53pm • ▶ Watch Video: Inside Trump's executive order reclassifying marijuana Washington — President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to reschedule marijuana to a lower drug classification, one of the most significant changes to drug policy in dec The Latest: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children 12/18/2025 07:41pm • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans. The sweeping proposals ��� the most significant moves th