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Analysis: How the DC police takeover is structured to work 08/12/2025 04:47pm • Even though the federal takeover of D.C.'s police department was announced Monday, it actually began Aug. 7, according to federal law enforcement sources. It is being built on a tightly scripted, highly centralized structure designed for rapid coordination across multiple agencies. A senio Spirit Airlines sounds the alarm on its future ability to stay in business 08/12/2025 04:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Just five months after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Spirit Airlines is warning about its future ability to stay in business. Spirit Aviation Holdings, the budget carrier's parent company, says it has “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a goin An explosion at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania has killed 2. Here's what to know 08/12/2025 03:59pm • An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant south of Pittsburgh killed two people and injured more than 10 others. The CEO has vowed to find out what caused Monday's blast while the workers' union says it will make sure there's a thorough investigation. The plant, Clairton Coke Works, is one of four major pl UN condemns deadly attack on famine-hit camp in Darfur that killed 40 08/12/2025 03:38pm • CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations on Tuesday condemned an attack by a paramilitary group on a famine-hit displacement camp in Sudan's western region of Darfur, killing at least 40 people. Monday’s attack by the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, on the Abu Shouk camp outside el-Fasher, the provincial c Golf is not like team sports. It was never meant to have a finish line to the season 08/12/2025 02:46pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Instead of outrage and grave concern that Rory McIlroy chose to sit out the first FedEx Cup playoff event — without dropping a single spot in the rankings — let it be a reminder that golf is not like other sports. These are not the “playoffs.” That's for team sp Israel targets and kills Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif in Gaza as journalist toll grows 08/12/2025 02:29pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military targeted and killed an Al Jazeera correspondent and others with an airstrike late Sunday in Gaza, after press advocates said an Israeli “smear campaign” stepped up when Anas al-Sharif cried on air over starvation in the territory. Both Israel and hospital o Terry Cole named interim federal administrator for DC police 08/12/2025 01:09pm • Terry Cole has been selected by President Donald Trump to be the interim federal administrator for D.C.'s police department. Cole has a long history in both federal and Virginia law enforcement circles, but it's still not clear how extensive his role as leader will be. His appointment come Parts of Europe burn as millions are facing record heat 08/12/2025 12:20pm • MADRID (AP) — Wildfires burned in parts of Europe on Tuesday as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat. Temperatures in some areas soared past 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). Europe is warming faster than any other continent, at twice Kodak cautions on business operations but remains confident it can meet debt obligations 08/12/2025 11:41am • The more than 130-year-old Eastman Kodak Co. is cautioning on its business operations, but says it is confident it will be able to work out upcoming debt obligations. “Kodak has debt coming due within 12 months and does not have committed financing or available liquidity to meet such debt obligat National Guard members report to DC Armory under Trump's emergency declaration 08/12/2025 11:31am • Dozens of men and women in camo Army fatigues, carrying large duffel bags, some even with pillows and blankets, filed into the D.C. Armory Tuesday morning. It is all part of the mobilization of 800 D.C. National Guard members that was ordered by President Donald Trump as he declared a public sa Trump's rhetoric about DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime 08/12/2025 11:30am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has taken control of D.C.'s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation's capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are necessary to curb an urgent public safety crisis. Even as district officials questioned The diplomatic efforts that led to the Trump-Putin meeting on Ukraine 08/12/2025 08:41am • Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, the latest development in the months-long effort by Trump to end the Ukraine war. The hastily arranged meeting between Putin and Trump will be the first U.S.-Russia summit since former President Joe Bid What DC leaders, residents say about Trump's federal control of police, National Guard deployment 08/11/2025 05:30pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Donald Trump's announcement that he is placing the police department under federal control and deploying the National Guard in the nation's capital is an effort to use his authority to "intrude on our autonomy." Bowser said that while she disagrees that t Could Trump move to federalize DC Monday? There's local pushback on that 08/10/2025 08:57pm • Last week, President Donald Trump warned he might "exert" his presidential powers to place the District under federal control. And with his announcement of a press conference today on District matters, that has led to speculation that he is about to make good on that assertion. Trump has previ 4 children, 2 adults dead in Charles Co. house fire 08/10/2025 06:26pm • Four children and two adults are dead after a house fire erupted in Charles County, Maryland, Sunday morning. There were a total of nine people linked to the house, according to officials. Of the survivors, two people managed to get out of the home and two others were not there when the blaz