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Trump insists during NC visit he's brought down costs, but residents say they're feeling squeezed 12/19/2025 09:55pm • ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — She had worked 22 days straight in her job as a technician at an engine plant to save up, and now Daijah Bryant could finally do what she was putting off: Christmas shopping. Bryant pushed her cart out of a Walmart in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and loaded her sedan's ba Rep. Elise Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor and won't seek reelection to House 12/19/2025 09:33pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik suspended her campaign for New York governor on Friday and said she will not seek reelection to Congress, bowing out of what was expected to be a bruising Republican primary and ending a once-promising tenure in the House. Stefanik, an ally of President Dona The Latest: Justice Department releases some case files on Jeffrey Epstein 12/19/2025 09:27pm • The Department of Justice on Friday released some of its records related to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. The convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most powerful people, including President Donald Trump, who long sought to keep the f Brown University attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy finds 12/19/2025 08:32pm • An autopsy determined that the man suspected in last weekend's attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when his body was found, New Hampshire's attorney general's office said Friday Authorities found From power plants to data center campus: What's next in Montgomery County's agricultural reserve 12/19/2025 08:30pm • The latest item to grow in Montgomery County's agricultural reserve could be a campus for data centers, growth that other jurisdictions in the D.C. region have been experiencing. During its special session on Tuesday, Maryland's General Assembly gave a green light to legislation that would st Forecasters issue rare weather warning as strong gusts fuel wildfire threats in Colorado 12/19/2025 07:47pm • The National Weather Service on Friday issued a rare warning for part of Colorado's Front Range as hurricane-force winds and tinder dry conditions boosted the threat of wildfire across several counties, while flood warnings were issued in Oregon as rivers there swelled from heavy rain. It marked ano Texas judge orders Attorney General Ken Paxton's divorce records unsealed amid heated Senate primary 12/19/2025 06:47pm • McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — Court documents detailing the divorce of Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, were released Friday by order of a judge, months after she filed citing “biblical grounds.” The initial filing showed t DC police Chief Smith gives fiery speech at walkout ceremony 12/19/2025 06:43pm • Outgoing D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith had some strong parting words Friday as she gets ready to leave the department amid allegations of manipulating data to make it seem that crime decreased in the District. "Let's be really clear about one thing: Never would I, never will I, ever compromise m A timeline of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the fight to make the government’s files public 12/19/2025 06:28pm • Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to release its investigative files on the late millionaire, who was accused of repeatedly sexually abusing underage girls. Enacted last month, the Epstein Files Transparency Act requires disclosure of Hoffmann Family to purchase controlling interest in Pittsburgh Penguins 12/19/2025 05:51pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — A family-owned, Chicago-based investment company has reached a “definitive agreement” to purchase a controlling interest in the Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group. The Penguins announced Friday that Hoffmann Family of Companies and FSG have come to terms on a sale t Key questions about Minnesota's fraud schemes and the billions in losses 12/19/2025 05:37pm • The full scale of the federal fraud schemes targeting Minnesota-run programs remains unknown, but prosecutors now say losses could reach into the billions. Half or more of the roughly $18 billion in federal funds that supported 14 Minnesota-run programs since 2018 may have been stolen, First Assista Israeli fire kills at least 5 Palestinians in Gaza, a hospital in the enclave says 12/19/2025 05:17pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby, according to a local hospital that received the casualties. The killings came as the tenuous Israel-Hamas truce has stalled in r University of Virginia Board of Visitors names 10th president 12/19/2025 05:14pm • The University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors on Friday chose Scott Beardsley as the institution’s 10th president, despite calls from lawmakers, UVA faculty and community organizations and Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger to suspend the months-long search. Spanberger and others had asked for th Browns pass rusher Myles Garrett looks to set NFL single-season sack record against Bills' Allen 12/19/2025 05:11pm • Josh Allen has been compared to Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre due to his arm strength and ability to run with the ball despite the high risks at times. Myles Garrett hopes Allen will draw another similarity to Favre as quarterbacks who were sacked to set the single-season sacks record. The What to know about the man authorities say fatally shot 2 Brown students and an MIT professor 12/19/2025 05:07pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Several days of investigations into the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor ended when authorities discovered evidence they say indicates the killings were committed by the same man, who was then found dead fro