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Thousands turn out in Kabul to cheer on Afghanistan's traditional buzkashi equestrian games 12/23/2025 05:50am • KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Through the dust kicked up by the pounding hooves of a scrum of horses and riders, a winner emerges. The victorious team gallops around the playing field, holding a flag aloft. The final of Afghanistan’s hugely popular annual tournament of buzkashi, a traditional equest Tips on how to try to avoid a trip to the ER this Christmas 12/23/2025 03:59am • While Christmas is a time to celebrate with family and friends, sometimes injuries and illnesses happen. WTOP talked with a local emergency room doctor on the patients they commonly see around the holiday and the steps you can take to try to stay away from the hospital this Christmas. "Over th How the 2025 passenger jet, chopper crash near Reagan National has changed DC's airspace 12/23/2025 03:55am • This story is part of WTOP’s series “Five stories that defined the DC-area in 2025.” You can hear it on air all this week and read it online. Almost a year after the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter, the congested airspace a At least 5 killed after Mexican Navy plane on medical mission crashes in Texas 12/23/2025 03:03am • A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in waters along the Texas coast, officials said. Four of the people aboard were Navy officers and four were civilians, including a Man critically injured in apartment fire in Southeast DC 12/22/2025 09:50pm • A man was critically injured in a fire at an apartment building in Southeast D.C. on Monday night. D.C. Fire and Emergency Services responded to a fire in the 3500 block of Minnesota Avenue SE, near Edgewood Baptist Church, at 7:52 p.m. Box Alarm updated address 3500 block Minnesota Ave SE. Vi Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigation 12/22/2025 08:53pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University's president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month. Questions surrounding Brown's security policies have on Jorge Polanco, with 1 pitch of first base experience, willing to make move for New York Mets 12/22/2025 07:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Jorge Polanco's experience at first base consists of one pitch, when San Francisco's Wilmer Flores lined a sinker off the end of his bat toward right field in the ninth inning of a tied game last April 6. “It's just like they always say, whenever you come into the game, the ball Workers organized by a key union rally in Bolivia against scrapping fuel subsidies 12/22/2025 07:18pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian miners marched in downtown La Paz, the country's capital, and union-organized protesters took to the streets elsewhere on Monday, the first day of a strike over the government's scrapping of fuel subsidies that have been blamed for contributing to dollar shortages a DC's new interim police chief on what's next in crime data tampering investigation 12/22/2025 07:02pm • Jeffery Carroll has always wanted to be a police officer. Growing up, he was a Law Enforcement Explorer, a program that allows young people to learn about career possibilities by working with local law enforcement. For three summers in college, he worked for Ocean City’s police department as a Playoff-bound Patriots are on the verge of an AFC East title. They also have injury concerns 12/22/2025 06:39pm • FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2021 after rallying from an 11-point, fourth quarter deficit to beat the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. The game was in many ways was emblematic of the culture that Mike Vrabel said he hoped to cultiva QB Bryce Young's turnaround boosts Panthers' playoff hopes 12/22/2025 05:55pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There were plenty of question marks surrounding Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young entering the season, the most obvious being if he could win at the NFL level. But after going 6-22 as a starter in his first two seasons, the No. 1 overall pick in 2023 has given the pl Waymos blocked roads and caused chaos during San Francisco power outage 12/22/2025 05:29pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Many of Waymo's self-driving cars blocked streets of San Francisco during a mass power outage Saturday and forced the company to temporarily suspend service, raising questions about the cars' ability to to adapt to real-world driving conditions. Social media users posted video Clashes flare as top Turkish officials visit Syria ahead of a deadline for Kurdish integration 12/22/2025 05:19pm • DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Clashes erupted between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters on Monday as top Turkish officials visited Damascus ahead of a deadline to implement a deal between the government and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast. Syria’s state-run SANA news agency re Trump administration suspends 5 wind projects off the East Coast, cites national security concerns 12/22/2025 04:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday suspended leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon. The suspension, effective immediately, is the latest step by the ad Parker Washington is far from an afterthought in Jacksonville's receiver room 12/22/2025 04:16pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Parker Washington was a somewhat forgotten receiver in Jacksonville when training camp opened. With Brian Thomas Jr. coming off a Pro Bowl, two-way rookie Travis Hunter garnering so much attention and Dyami Brown having signed a one-year, $10 million contract in free agen