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Judge wants whistleblower to testify in contempt probe of Trump official over planes to El Salvador 12/08/2025 06:22pm • A federal judge investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should face a contempt charge over flights carrying migrants to El Salvador said Monday he wants to hear from a whistleblower and top Justice Department official. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington ordered th Blues’ goalie Binnington focused on his game with Olympic selection looming 12/08/2025 06:05pm • MONTREAL (AP) — Jordan Binnington knows the chatter is out there. He’s leaning on the mindset that’s pulled him through tough stretches before. The goalie who backstopped Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off opened the NHL season as the front-runner to start in February’s Milan-Cortina Games. Bu Smith's tenure as DC police chief marked by drastic 2-year drop in crime 12/08/2025 06:03pm • D.C. police Chief Pamela Smith is stepping down at the end of the month after two years leading the department, taking over during a rash of postpandemic violence and ending her tenure on pace for an eight-year low number of homicides in 2025. Smith was nominated as chief in July 2023 and worked Former Trump aides allege judicial misconduct in Wisconsin fake elector case 12/08/2025 05:54pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump's former attorney in battleground Wisconsin alleged Monday that a judge presiding over his felony forgery case related to the 2020 election is guilty of misconduct and must step aside. The attorney and two other former Trump associates charged in relatio 12 FBI agents fired for kneeling during racial justice protest sue to get their jobs back 12/08/2025 05:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve former FBI agents fired after kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest in Washington sued Monday to get their jobs back, saying their action had been intended to de-escalate a volatile situation and was not meant as a political gesture. The agents say in their lawsuit Arlington teacher named finalist for 2026 Grammy Award 12/08/2025 05:41pm • Bill Podolski was alone at recess as an elementary schooler in New York when the band teacher approached him. Podolski didn’t have many friends at the time, he said, and the educator mentioned he might be a good fit in the band. He accepted the recommendation and quickly learned an instrument. Psychiatrists disagree on Catherine Hoggle’s ability to stand trial in 2014 disappearance of her two children 12/08/2025 05:37pm • A two-day competency hearing began Monday morning, in Rockville, Maryland, to determine whether Catherine Hoggle can stand trial for murder charges in the 2014 disappearance of her two children. Nicole Johnson, a forensic psychiatrist with the state psychiatric hospital Clifton T. Perkins, is tes ICEBlock app maker sues Trump administration over its pressure on Apple to remove app 12/08/2025 05:28pm • The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi used her “state power” to force Apple to remove the app. Apple in October removed ICEBlock and other app Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey 12/08/2025 05:03pm • President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully. In a statement posted on social media, Habba assailed the court's ruling as politic Hockey at the Winter Olympics will be played on shorter ice than NHL dimensions 12/08/2025 05:02pm • MILAN (AP) — Hockey, one of the premier events at the Winter Olympics and one that is welcoming NHL players back for the first time in more than a decade, will take place on ice that is shorter than NHL-regulation size. Men's and women's games at two arenas will be played in rinks that are 60 mete Jeff Kent elected to baseball Hall of Fame, which again keeps doors shut for Bonds and Clemens 12/08/2025 04:56pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Elected to baseball's Hall of Fame more than 17 years after his final game, Jeff Kent couldn't control his emotions. “Absolutely unprepared. Emotionally unstable,” he said after Sunday's vote announcement. “Thoughts are so far clouded." Kent received 14 of 16 votes from Supreme Court seems likely to back Trump's power to fire independent agency board members 12/08/2025 04:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday seemed likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members. The court’s conservative majority suggested it would overturn a unanimous 90-year-old decision t Toll Brothers: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 12/08/2025 04:46pm • FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Toll Brothers Inc. (TOL) on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $446.7 million. On a per-share basis, the Fort Washington, Pennsylvania-based company said it had net income of $4.58. The results fell short of Wall Street expecta Compass: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 12/08/2025 04:37pm • OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Compass Minerals International Inc. (CMP) on Monday reported a loss of $7.2 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Overland Park, Kansas-based company said it had a loss of 17 cents. The minerals producer posted reven Why some African countries are prone to military takeovers 12/08/2025 04:24pm • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power. A few hours later, the president announced the coup had been foiled. Just two weeks earlier, soldiers seized power in another Wes