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Church Nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids 12/15/2025 12:09pm • DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) ��� One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled ���ICE.��� Prescott says Cowboys have to stick to business with playoff hopes all but gone 12/15/2025 11:18am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Dak Prescott stared blankly for several seconds when the star quarterback was asked what the goal would be for the Dallas Cowboys over the final three games with their playoff hopes all but gone. The long pause said it all after a Minnesota team that was eliminated from pos Professors, students appeal ruling on Alabama law banning DEI initiatives at public universities 12/15/2025 11:03am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� A group of students and professors at public universities across Alabama are asking an appeals court to halt a state law that bans diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in public schools and prohibits the endorsement of what Republican lawmakers dubbed ���divisive con Frigid weather stretches on with relief in sight for DC area 12/15/2025 10:45am • It won't warm up much Monday as a stretch of frigid days lingers in the D.C. area, keeping temperatures below-average for weeks. Highs are only expected to reach the low 30s Monday afternoon after the day started out with bone-chilling temperatures in the teens. "Plenty of sunshine to start th Billy Napier back in Sun Belt at James Madison. It's a changed world from Louisiana-Lafayette days 12/15/2025 10:25am • HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) ��� Four years ago, Billy Napier walked away from a Sun Belt Conference powerhouse he had built at Louisiana-Lafayette. It was, in part, because he wasn���t sure how that program would handle the financial challenges of new rules allowing college athletes to profit from their Iran's rial currency plummets to new low, sparking fears of higher food prices 12/15/2025 09:01am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iran���s rial slid further Monday to a new record low of more than 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening the currency���s collapse less than two weeks after it first breached the 1.2-million mark amid sanctions pressure and regional tensions. Currency traders in Tehran quot How an AM radio station in California weathered the Trump administration's assault on media 12/15/2025 08:29am • Before Jimmy Kimmel, there was KCBS. Just six days into President Donald Trump's new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM reported that immigration agents were in the area ��� driving ���unmarked vehicles including a black Dodge Durango, a gray Nissan Maxima and white Nis Stokes wants to see 'a bit of dog' as England recalls Tongue for third Ashes test 12/15/2025 08:00am • ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) ��� England cricket captain Ben Stokes called for his team to ���show a bit of dog��� against Australia in the third Ashes test with the series on the line. The tourists have made one change to the team beaten by eight wickets at the Gabba in the second test to slip 2-0 behi Thailand to hold early election on Feb. 8 after parliament dissolution 12/15/2025 07:31am • BANGKOK (AP) ��� Thailand will hold an early election on Feb. 8, the country���s election regulator said Monday, days after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the country's parliament. Anutin, who has been in office for only three months and is seeking another term, disbanded the legislat Czech president swears in new coalition government of populist billionaire Andrej Babi�� 12/15/2025 06:35am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� A new Czech coalition government led by populist billionaire Andrej Babi�� took office on Monday with an agenda to steer the country away from supporting Ukraine and reject some key European Union policies. President Petr Pavel swore in the Cabinet at the Prague Castle, ending a pro- Rugby to trial lower tackle height at elite level amid concussion concerns 12/15/2025 05:44am • Rugby remains ���a long, long way��� from making a law change to lower the tackle height at elite level despite ���positive results��� from trials in the amateur game, the world governing body said Monday. World Rugby said trials over the last two seasons involving 11 unions around the world that se This Chinese table game, described as 'the new pickleball,' is surging in the DC area 12/15/2025 04:40am • The sound of clinking glasses pierced over the din at Lucky Danger in D.C.���s Chinatown. Past the tables filled with diners and happy hour patrons on a Wednesday night, toward the back and beyond another bar in the restaurant���s inner sanctum, the washing is taking place. The "dishwasher," Dak Prescott and Cowboys watch playoff hopes all but vanish in 34-26 loss to Vikings 12/15/2025 12:45am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� The last time Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys were on their home field, they had finished a two-game sweep of last season's Super Bowl teams to spark talk of a rally to a playoff spot. This time, they watched those postseason hopes all but vanish. J.J. McCarthy threw fo Seahawks spoil Rivers��� late rally with last-minute field goal in 18-16 win 12/14/2025 11:49pm • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Jason Myers kicked a franchise-record six field goals, including a 56-yarder with 29 seconds left, and the Seattle Seahawks outlasted 44-year-old quarterback Philip Rivers and the Indianapolis Colts 18-16 on Sunday. Rivers threw a touchdown pass after coming out of retirement to mak Volkswagen's $3.5B gamble: Can it win back share in the competitive Chinese market 12/14/2025 11:24pm • HEFEI, China (AP) ��� Volkswagen is making a major bet in China, the largest and one of the most cutthroat auto markets in the world. The question is whether it will work. The German carmaker, which once dominated the market with a more than 50% share, has invested 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in