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Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment 08/25/2025 02:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Some National Guard units patrolling the nation���s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of his military deployment that makes good on a directive issued late last week by his defense secretary. A Defense Department o Law School Video Responses: How to Prepare 08/24/2025 08:00pm • The number of law schools that conduct online interviews with candidates is small but increasing, particularly among the most selective schools. For some of these law schools, an admissions officer or alum conducts a live interview with select candidates under serious consideration. Others solicit v House Oversight Committee Democrats say most Epstein files turned over by DOJ were already public 08/24/2025 09:00am • (CNN) ��� Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are decrying what they say is a lack of new records in the Jeffrey Epstein files that the Justice Department provided to the panel Friday. ���Only 3% of the documents given to the Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate race 08/23/2025 07:27am • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an ���unrig Texas��� campaign tour, the state���s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O���Rourke rallied support in Austin for lawmakers who left the state to delay a Tour bus rollover kills 5 on interstate highway in western New York 08/22/2025 08:52pm • A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people aboard crashed and rolled on its side Friday on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said. The driver apparently became distracted, lost control and overcorrected before the bus we Connecticut's clever, relentless baserunning strategy draws attention at Little League World Series 08/22/2025 04:11pm • SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) ��� Four teams are set for Saturday's semifinals at the Little League World Series. In a runaway, none have sparked interest and conversation quite like the team from Connecticut. Fairfield's club representing the Metro Region is relentless on offense. It has outscored o Kansas reveals $450M Memorial Stadium renovation ahead of Fresno State game 08/22/2025 03:13pm • LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) ��� Travis Goff can picture what it was like to watch Kansas football players spill into Memorial Stadium when he was first hired as their athletic director. It was just over five years ago, back when the Jayhawks were a college football laughingstock. The players would leave a d Trump embraces tough-on-crime mantra amid DC takeover as he and Democrats claim political wins 08/22/2025 12:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� President Donald Trump stood among several hundred law enforcement officers, National Guard troops and federal agents at a U.S. Park Police operations center in one of Washington, D.C.'s most dangerous neighborhoods. As the cameras rolled, he offered a stark message about crime, an Lawyers ask judge to order ICE to free Spanish-language journalist from immigration detention 08/21/2025 01:37pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist who has been held in federal immigration detention since June argue in a court filing that the government is retaliating against him for his news coverage and is holding him in violation of his constitutional rights. Local police in DeKalb C Students face new cellphone restrictions in 17 states as school year begins 08/21/2025 11:34am • Jamel Bishop is seeing a big change in his classrooms as he begins his senior year at Doss High School in Louisville, Kentucky, where cellphones are now banned during instructional time. In previous years, students often weren���t paying attention and wasted class time by repeating questions, the te Surge in scooter, e-bike injuries has DC doctors urging riders to pay attention 08/21/2025 05:07am • Have you been on an e-bike or scooter recently? WTOP talked to a local trauma surgeon who says she's seen a lot of injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening from these micromobility devices. "These are super fun, but they can be dangerous to riders and other people nearby," said Dr. Christi Legal claim by ex-Los Angeles fire chief alleges mayor orchestrated smear campaign after her ouster 08/20/2025 06:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The former Los Angeles fire chief filed a legal claim Wednesday against the city, alleging that her ouster by Mayor Karen Bass was followed by an orchestrated effort to smear her conduct and decision-making during the most destructive wildfire in LA history. Former Chief Kristi Movie Review: Margaret Qualley shines in fun, gory neo-noir 'Honey Don't!' 08/19/2025 01:33pm • The skies are blue, the sun unrelenting and the body count escalating in the Bakersfield, California, of ���Honey Don���t!,��� where Margaret Qualley���s private investigator tries to get a handle on the nefarious goings-on in her city with a small-town feel. It���s the second film in Ethan Coen and Out of sight, out of earshot: Howard Co. schools continue cellphone restrictions for new school year 08/18/2025 06:58pm • From saving on school supplies to the impact of federal cuts, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series,�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. In an effort to curb distractions and improve sc Book Review: A gang of hatchet-wielding women try to take over the meth business in rural Texas 08/18/2025 01:19pm • A poor country woman and her kids are being terrorized by Porky, a rampaging hog that keeps breaking out of a neighbor���s pen. For help, she turns to Hap Collins and Leonard Pine in Joel R. Lansdale���s 14th darkly comic novel about the duo, ���The Hatchet Girls.��� Hap and Leonard aren���t animal