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Sleeper Promo Code WTOP Activates $100 Bonus for MLB, NFL Daily Fantasy 09/09/2025 04:47pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Get a fantasy bonus for MLB and the NFL with the Sleeper promo code WTOP. Register here to claim a deposit match and begin with a free Georgia governor's electric mobility dream for Georgia tested after South Koreans detained in raid 09/09/2025 04:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Can Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp be tough on immigration and still encourage foreign investment? Kemp has courted foreign investment to his state but also once offered to use his own pickup truck to round up “criminal illegals.” Those two stances collided this past week when immigrat Special election day in Virginia: Fairfax voters decide next member of Congress 09/09/2025 04:20pm • Check back with WTOP for special election results on Tuesday night. WTOP will have election analysis and team coverage on air, online and on our social media platforms. Voters in the City of Fairfax and Fairfax County, Virginia, are lining up Tuesday to cast their ballots and decide who will be Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show 09/09/2025 03:30pm • BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intrica The longest Metro escalator has an even longer wait time 09/09/2025 11:58am • Some commuters in the D.C. area have to factor in the time it takes just to wait on an escalator to get to their train. But, that’s because it's the longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere, and it's in Wheaton, Maryland. Residents in the region have to wait roughly 2 minutes and 54 seconds PBS, NPR stations struggle with Trump-fueled government funding cuts 09/09/2025 11:47am • NEW YORK (AP) — Coping with a sudden loss in federal funding, PBS affiliate KSPS in Spokane, Washington, faced a surprise extra hurdle. Many of its contributing members — at one point almost half — lived in Canada, and they were withdrawing support out of anger at President Donald Trump's desi Will anything stop 'The Studio' and 'Severance' at the Emmys? AP writers make their predictions 09/09/2025 11:41am • Sunday's 77th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive with clear favorites but few sure things. Will the acclaim for “Adolescence” carry it to limited series dominance, or will “The Penguin” complete a run that began with big nomination numbers and continued with a big performance at the Creative Arts Maryland Gov. Moore makes re-election bid official, adds staff; Hale is now officially a Republican; more notes 09/09/2025 05:56am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) makes it official Tuesday, announcing his plans to seek re-election in 2026. The announcement, which was widely expected, was made in a campaign video in which Moore recounts his historic 2022 campaign, which made him the first Black governor in state history, as well as his ef DC's marijuana market is changing. Some cultivators are seizing the moment 09/09/2025 04:45am • Taking the advice of the old adage to stop and smell the flowers really takes on a new meaning at this D.C. medical marijuana growing operation. In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP visits the headquarters of Alternative Solutions, or Alt Sol, a cannabis cultivator in D.C., to lear McLean Boy Scout troop jumps into action to save leader after collapse on bike trail 09/09/2025 04:28am • A Boy Scouts of America troop leader from McLean, Virginia, says he owes his life to his troop after they saved him during a bike ride on March 30. Laurent Lee, 59, joined a group of Scouts, other leaders and parents for a bike ride in Lorton as part of the Cycling Merit Badge. The first part Palestinian beer defies the odds and goes on sale in Britain with help from Scottish brewer 09/09/2025 04:19am • LONDON (AP) — A Palestinian beer managed to find its way to British store shelves this week from the Israeli-occupied West Bank despite onerous border checks, a distance of some 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) and a raging war in the region. 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