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'Get your act together': Federal workers line up for free groceries during shutdown 10/21/2025 04:41pm • 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. The first food distribution run The Dow hits a record as 3M, Coca-Cola and other big US stocks climb 10/21/2025 04:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record on Tuesday as the floodgates opened for companies reporting how much profit they made during the summer. The Dow rose 218 points, or 0.5%, and topped its prior all-time high, which was set early this month. The S&P 500 index, which Belichick says suspended North Carolina assistant coach is back working with Tar Heels 10/21/2025 04:13pm • CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) ��� North Carolina coach Bill Belichick said suspended cornerbacks coach Armond Hawkins has been reinstated and returned to work ahead of Saturday's visit from No. 16 Virginia. The school announced Oct. 9 that it had suspended Hawkins for ���violating NCAA rules��� tied to imp Rough game against the Lions brings the Buccaneers back to the pack 10/21/2025 03:54pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� Hold up on that MVP talk. Slow down on giving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the No. 1 seed. Baker Mayfield and the Buccaneers crashed in Detroit against a depleted defense missing its entire starting secondary. The Bucs (5-2) were outplayed from start to finish in a 24-9 loss on Mond Trump administration pledges to speed some student loan forgiveness after lawsuit 10/21/2025 03:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for an estimated 2.5 million borrowers who are enrolled in certain federal repayment plans following a lawsuit from the American Federation of Teachers. Under the agreement reached Friday between the teachers un Ex-Amazon driver sues civil rights agency for dropping her case following Trump's executive order 10/21/2025 03:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A former Amazon delivery driver has filed a lawsuit accusing a federal civil right agency of abruptly and unlawfully abandoning her sex discrimination case and others like it following an executive order from President Donald Trump. The lawsuit filed by the former Colorado driver d Sports on TV for Wednesday, Oct. 22 10/21/2025 03:05pm • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Wednesday, Oct. 22 COLLEGE FOOTBALL 7:30 p.m. ESPN2 ��� MTSU at Delaware 9 p.m. CBSSN ��� Missouri St. at New Mexico St. COLLEGE SOCCER (WOMEN���S) 9 p.m. ESPNU ��� Santa Clara at Gonzaga COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN���S) 7 p.m. ACCN ��� S Takeaways from AP's investigation on anti-science legislation in US statehouses 10/21/2025 02:52pm • A wave of anti-science bills has been introduced in statehouses across America this year, pushed by people with special interests who have close ties to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protection Greek government seeks to ban protests at Tomb of Unknown Soldier monument, sparking backlash 10/21/2025 02:47pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Greece���s conservative government is seeking to ban protests at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, an iconic monument outside Parliament in Athens which has frequently been the site of demonstrations. Opposition parties accuse the prime minister of intolerance and of sowing di Trump's nominee to lead a watchdog agency hits trouble over MLK and 'Nazi streak' text messages 10/21/2025 02:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump���s pick to lead an office charged with protecting federal whistleblowers appeared to be in jeopardy on Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he hoped the White House would withdraw the nomination. The growing opposition to Paul Ingrassia com Japan's parliament elects Sanae Takaichi as nation's first female prime minister 10/21/2025 02:10pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Japan���s parliament on Tuesday elected ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country���s first female prime minister, and she underlined her commitment to boosting Japanese defense as she prepared to host visiting U.S. President Donald Trump next week. Takaichi replaces outgoing S Jannik Sinner's decision to sit out Davis Cup criticized at home in Italy 10/21/2025 02:09pm • ROME (AP) ��� Jannik Sinner���s decision not to play for host Italy in the Davis Cup Final 8 is being met with a sense of abandonment in his home country ��� where he was fiercely defended during his doping case earlier this year. The second-ranked Sinner, who led Italy to tennis��� biggest team tro Movie Review: Jeremy Allen White is a tortured Boss in 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' 10/21/2025 01:56pm • In his 500-page memoir, ���Born to Run,��� Bruce Springsteen spends less than three pages on the making of his 1982 album ���Nebraska.��� Moving on, folks, nothing to see here, he seems to be saying. The first authorized biopic of his life ��� ���Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere��� ��� disagrees Japan's first female leader is an ultraconservative star from a male-dominated party 10/21/2025 01:40pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country's first female prime minister. Takaichi, 64, is also the first woman to lead the Liberal Democratic Party that has dominated Japan���s What Americans think about rising health care costs, according to a new AP-NORC poll 10/21/2025 01:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Most U.S. adults are worried about health care becoming more expensive, according to a new AP-NORC poll, as they make decisions about next year���s health coverage and a government shutdown keeps future health costs in limbo for millions. About 6 in 10 Americans are ���extremely�