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Indigenous groups get the spotlight at UN climate talks, but some say visibility isn't power 11/11/2025 02:48pm • BELEM, Brazil (AP) ��� Indigenous people are used to adapting, so when the power failed at their kickoff event at this year's United Nations climate talks, they rolled with it. Participants from around the world sweated through song, dance and prayers, improvising without microphones and cooling the Speaker Johnson faces an unruly House as lawmakers return for shutdown vote 11/11/2025 02:30pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After refusing to convene the U.S. House during the government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson is recalling lawmakers back into session ��� and facing an avalanche of pent-up legislative demands from those who have largely been sidelined from governing. Hundreds of representatives White House says naming new Washington Commanders stadium after Trump would be 'beautiful' 11/11/2025 02:22pm • WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) ��� The White House said Saturday it would be ���beautiful��� to name the new stadium for Washington's NFL team after President Donald Trump following an ESPN report that an intermediary has told the Commanders' ownership group that he wants it to bear his name. Trump cou The chase is over for Rory McIlroy. He hasn't stopped running 11/11/2025 01:30pm • The questions Rory McIlroy found so annoying in the months after his greatest feat in golf still linger. Where is the next mountain? What else is there to achieve? Now that he is nearing the end of a most sensational year, McIlroy realizes the answer lies in the form of another question. What does i White House's 50-year mortgage proposal has one notable benefit but a number of drawbacks 11/11/2025 01:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The White House says it is considering backing a 50-year mortgage to help alleviate the home affordability crisis in the country. But the announcement drew immediate criticism from policymakers, social media and economists, who said a 50-year mortgage would do little to resolve oth UK government defends the BBC as critics circle and Trump threatens to sue 11/11/2025 01:14pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain���s government rallied to the defense of the BBC on Tuesday after allegations of bias from its critics and the threat of a lawsuit from U.S. President Donald Trump over the way the broadcaster edited a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election Culture Secreta South Carolina court rejects final death row appeal focused on brain damage from mother's drinking 11/11/2025 01:03pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� South Carolina's highest court has refused to stop the execution of a man who killed three people over five days more than 20 years ago while leaving taunting messages for police in the blood of one of his victims. Stephen Bryant, 44, is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. Friday by f WWII nurses who dodged bullets and saved lives deserve Congressional honor, lawmakers say 11/11/2025 12:34pm • DANVILLE, Calif. (AP) ��� At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II, part of a pioneering group that dodged bullets as they hauled packs full of medical supplies and treated the burns and gunshot wounds of troops. Some nurses were killed by enemy fire. Othe Tony Mansolino to become the Atlanta Braves bench coach rather than 3rd base coach 11/11/2025 12:21pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Former Baltimore Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino will become the Atlanta Braves bench coach under new manager Walt Weiss rather than third base coach. Atlanta changed Mansolino's job Tuesday, four days after his hiring was announced. Mansolino had been the Orioles third ba There's a Gary Cole for every TV fan. Now, he's leading an 'NCIS' Veterans Day special 11/11/2025 11:46am • There���s a Gary Cole for everyone. Whether you know him from ���The West Wing��� or ���Veep,��� ���The Good Wife��� or ���Office Space,��� ���Dodgeball��� or ���Midnight Caller,��� you most likely know his face. For a while he was the ���hero of the schoolyard��� with his daughter���s classmates fo Help and assistance programs for furloughed federal workers in the DC region 11/11/2025 11:21am • We want to know your thoughts on the government shutdown. How are you and your family affected? Share your story ��� Send us a message or a voice note through the WTOP News app on Apple or Android. Click the ���Feedback��� button in the app���s navigation bar. Some companies and local governments Editorial Roundup: United States 11/11/2025 11:02am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Nov. 9 The Washington Post says TrumpRx isn't the best way to lower prices In a landmark deal announced Thursday, President Donald Trump negotiated dramatically lower costs for weight-loss drugs produced by pharmaceutical giants El Sports on TV for Wednesday, Nov. 12 11/11/2025 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Nov. 12 COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN���S) 7 p.m. FS1 ��� Milwaukee at Indiana 8 p.m. ACCN ��� UNC-Greensboro at NC State 9:30 p.m. PEACOCK ��� S. Dakota St. at Oregon COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN���S) 7:30 p.m. TRUTV ��� Loyola of Ch Raffaele Palladino replaces the fired Ivan Juri�� as Atalanta���s new manager 11/11/2025 09:40am • BERGAMO, Italy (AP) ��� Former Monza and Fiorentina coach Raffaele Palladino was named Atalanta���s new manager on Tuesday. Palladino replaces Ivan Juri��, who was fired on Monday amid a seven-match winless streak in Serie A that has left Atalanta in 13th place. The sacking came two days after a 3-0 Ukraine detains 5 people in $100M energy sector graft investigation 11/11/2025 09:14am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A Ukrainian anti-corruption agency said Tuesday it has detained five people and identified seven other suspects in a major graft investigation that is centering on alleged kickbacks worth some $100 million in the country���s energy sector. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau d