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What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro and the investigation into his shooting 12/17/2025 01:43pm • Authorities are searching for a suspect in the killing of Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a prominent physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was shot at his home near Boston. Loureiro, a married 47-year-old from Portugal, was shot Monday night and died Tuesday at a local hospital. Au Bowser names interim DC police chief 12/17/2025 01:43pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser has tapped Jeffery Carroll to serve as interim chief of the D.C. police department following Pamela Smith's resignation. "I know that he is the right person to build on the momentum of the past two years so that we will continue to drive down crime in the city," Bowser said du Movie Review: SpongeBob is back in madcap ���Search for SquarePants��� 12/17/2025 12:35pm • SpongeBob SquarePants just wants to be a big guy. For our bubble blowing, Bikini Bottom resident (voiced by Tom Kenny ), that means reaching the coveted height of 36 clams tall so that he can finally ride the big roller coaster at Captain Booty Beard���s Fun Park. In the new feature-length movie, �� Sophia Wilson is returning to the Portland Thorns for the 2026 season 12/17/2025 11:49am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� Sophia Wilson is returning to the Portland Thorns for the 2026 season. The 25-year-old U.S. national team star has exercised the player option of her contract for an additional year, the National Women's Soccer League team announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not reve Italy may not support EU-Mercosur free trade deal without changes 12/17/2025 11:30am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� Italy signaled on Wednesday that it might not support a massive transatlantic free trade deal between the European Union and South American countries, casting further doubt on the agreement as European leaders gather for a summit in Brussels and farmers enraged by the trade pact de Putin warns that Russia will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if peace talks fail 12/17/2025 11:20am • Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Moscow will seek to extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin's demands in peace talks. U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed an extensive diplomatic push to end nearly four years of fighting following Rus 'Buck Rogers' star Gil Gerard dies at 82 12/17/2025 11:03am • Gil Gerard, who played television's hunky sci-fi hero William ���Buck��� Rogers soon after the Star Wars franchise took hold in the late 1970s, has died. He was 82. Gerard died Tuesday in hospice as a result of a rare, aggressive form of cancer, said his manager, Tina Presley Borek. His wife, Janet Meet the Loudoun Co. family whose Christmas lights are so good, they won $50K 12/17/2025 10:38am • If you like to drive around at Christmastime and look at the lights people put up on their homes, you'd better add this one to your list. The best home Christmas light display in the United States is in Ashburn, Virginia. The Horn family, who live at 21260 Rosetta Place, won this year���s "Gre 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