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Sports on TV for Thursday, Dec. 18 12/17/2025 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Dec. 18 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5 p.m. ESPNU — Hampton vs. Jackson St., College Park, Ga. 7:30 p.m. ESPNU — Norfolk St. vs. Grambling St., College Park, Ga. COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 7 p.m. ACCN — S. Dakota St. Sports on TV for Dec. 22 - 28 12/17/2025 10:00am • Adv20-21 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Dec. 22 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 6 p.m. ACCN — American U. at Virginia BTN — Siena at Indiana 7 p.m. SECN — Prairie View A&M at LSU 8 p.m. ACCN — East Carolina at North Carolina BTN — Cent. Michigan at Faith-based entertainment sees a revival in Hollywood. Defining what it is can be a challenge 12/17/2025 09:04am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the movies this fall, Josh O’Connor plays a hot priest with a complicated past, Keanu Reeves is an angel who lost his wings and Elizabeth Olsen has a romantic dilemma in the afterlife. Hollywood, it seems, has found God. But it’s not just starry big-budget Netflix films o Marylanders split on resolving budget shortfall, pessimistic about Key Bridge rebuild 12/17/2025 08:29am • A new poll finds Maryland residents roughly split on how officials should resolve a budget shortfall, and highlights growing pessimism about the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The poll released Wednesday by the Institute of Politics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County sug Blue Jays newcomer Cody Ponce takes page from playbook of his brother-in-law, NFL star George Kittle 12/17/2025 06:00am • TORONTO (AP) — After a short and unsuccessful stint in the major leagues, Cody Ponce was pitching in Asia and still trying to find a mental approach that worked for him on the mound. So he started emulating his brother-in-law, NFL star George Kittle. That led to a huge turnaround for Ponce and a $ An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation 12/17/2025 05:46am • BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone's throw from his grave at the Vatican 12/17/2025 05:19am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope. Seven years on, the man’s likeness has gone on display in the Vatican, a reunion of s Norman Podhoretz, contentious and influential neo-conservative, has died 12/16/2025 11:58pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Norman Podhoretz, the boastful, hard-line editor and author whose books, essays and stewardship of Commentary magazine marked a political and deeply personal break from the left and made him a leader of the neo-conservative movement, has died. He was 95. Podhoretz died “peacefull Tristan Jarry and Stuart Skinner, traded just 5 days ago, face off against former teams 12/16/2025 11:51pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the first time in NHL history, goalies that were involved in the same trade faced one another within seven days of the deal. Tristan Jarry and Stuart Skinner, traded for one another just five days ago, starred against their former teams as Edmonton defeated Pittsburgh 6-4 on New Fairfax Co. Supervisor Rachna Sizemore Heizer wants to restore trust in government 12/16/2025 11:23pm • Former Fairfax County School Board member Rachna Sizemore Heizer was sworn in as a county supervisor during a ceremony Tuesday night, vowing to address concerns about affordability and hoping to restore the public’s trust in local government. Speaking to a crowded room, with her former school b Jared Kushner pulls out of Paramount’s hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery 12/16/2025 09:59pm • A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed Tuesday. Days after Warner agreed to be bought by Netflix in early December, Paramount launched a rival bid tha The Latest: Hegseth and Rubio brief lawmakers on US military escalation 12/16/2025 09:45pm • President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Las Vegas and Seattle are the front-runners if NBA expansion to 32 teams happens 12/16/2025 09:42pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NBA plans to make a decision regarding domestic expansion in the coming year, Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday, offering the most definitive timeline since the league began exploring the possibility of moving from 30 to 32 teams. And if there are favorites, as has long be In Senegal, climate change is adding to historic tension between farmers and herders 12/16/2025 09:05pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Cheikh Diouf and his father had just delivered a load of manure to the family's fields near their village in January when Diouf, returning home for a second load, got an urgent phone call from his sister-in-law: His father, she said, was arguing with a group of herders. By th Silver says NBA is taking gambling scandal seriously, may look into Heat relief over Terry Rozier 12/16/2025 08:53pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — It is critical for the NBA to be perceived as having integrity, Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday, adding that the gambling scandals that led to the arrests of Miami guard Terry Rozier, Portland coach Chauncey Billups and others are being taken with the utmost seriousness. Sil