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Chicago prepares for an influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents 09/03/2025 07:06pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago community leaders forged ahead Wednesday with preparations for the influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents the city is expecting, advising residents about their rights and organizing protests with fresh urgency. Details about the operation are scant, but Presi 4 former Milwaukee hotel workers get probation and time served in dogpile death 09/03/2025 06:33pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge sentenced four former Milwaukee hotel workers accused of killing a man in a suffocating dogpile to a mix of probation and time served Wednesday, sparing them any more time behind bars. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Swanson handed down the sentences in D'Vontaye Boat accident in Nigeria leaves at least 31 people dead, authorities say 09/03/2025 06:31pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A boat accident on a river in north-central Nigeria killed at least 31 people, authorities said Wednesday. The overloaded boat hit a tree trunk in the Borgu area of Niger state while it carried 90 people, according to Hussaini Isah, an official with Nigeria’s National Emerg Trump assures Polish leader of a continued robust US military presence in the European nation 09/03/2025 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he had a warm meeting Wednesday with the country's new president, Karol Nawrocki. Trump had taken the unusual step of endorsing Nawrocki in the Polish elections earlier this y Bengals QB Joe Burrow feels stronger this year going into opener at Cleveland 09/03/2025 06:29pm • CINCINNATI (AP) — For the first time in his NFL career, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow completed a training camp that wasn’t impacted by any injury or pandemic. That gives him more confidence entering his sixth NFL season. “I think I’m in a good spot,” Burrow said. “I think I Joe Flacco to start for Browns at age 40, joining unique group of NFL QBs 09/03/2025 05:32pm • BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Joe Flacco is already part of an esteemed group as a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. On Sunday, he will join another club when he takes the field for the Cleveland Browns against the Cincinnati Bengals. Flacco, who turned 40 on Jan. 16, spent last season with the Colts. He signe DC Del. Norton, Democrats say National Guard deployment needs to end 09/03/2025 05:25pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton on Wednesday called for an end to the deployment of 2,200 National Guard troops in the District, and Democrats spoke out against President Don Movie Review: In 'The Baltimorons,' emergency dental work prompts an unlikely rom-com 09/03/2025 04:40pm • There are all kinds of movies that are either endangered or practically extinct. The big-studio comedy. The original musical. But the sweet and shaggy regular-people movie — more a province of the 1970s, always one that required a little hunting down — is a particularly rare breed. “Baltimoron DC police to get 13% pay raise 09/03/2025 04:35pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced a new collective bargaining agreement with the D.C. Fraternal Order of Police Union. It includes a 13% pay raise for officers, sergeants, lieutenants and above in the D.C. police department. That raise is effective starting Oct. 1. Trinidad and Tobago leader praises strike and says US should kill all drug traffickers 'violently' 09/03/2025 03:44pm • PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar praised a U.S. strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean and said that all traffickers should be killed “violently.” U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that 11 people Defense lawyer says there's no evidence Brazil’s Bolsonaro tried to carry out a coup 09/03/2025 02:50pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Lawyers for Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro said in a last-ditch effort to defend him in court Wednesday that there is no evidence he attempted to carry out a coup. On the second day of the verdict and sentencing phase of Bolsonaro’s coup trial, lawyer Celso Vi Timeline: Key events in the troubled history of the Boeing 737 Max jetliner 09/03/2025 02:18pm • Airlines have flown Boeing's 737 Max jets for just eight years, but in that short time two of them crashed, killing 346 people. The Max was marketed as a more fuel-efficient version of the American aerospace company’s popular 737, the best-selling airliner ever, but it quickly become a symbol of Trump can't use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members, court rules 09/03/2025 12:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of being in a Venezuelan gang. The decision blocking an administration priority is destined for a showdown at In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza 09/03/2025 12:25pm • VENICE, Italy (AP) — In January 2024, a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a bullet-riddled car in Gaza City begged for someone to rescue her. Contact was lost with the first ambulance. Hind Rajab, five family members and two medics were found dead 12 days later. The impact of the story, and the audio Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought 09/03/2025 11:36am • The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice. The study, published Wednesday in the journal N