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Hong Kong residents and experts defend bamboo scaffolding after deadly fire 12/04/2025 12:55am • HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city’s deadliest blaze in decades, as a debate flares over whether it should be replaced. Autho Changing face of college football results in blue-chip prospects making some surprising choices 12/04/2025 12:27am • The changing landscape of college football means the nation’s premier recruits are no longer signing with the same handful of programs. That became particularly apparent this week when the nation’s top-ranked prospect landed in Vanderbilt of all places. Vanderbilt parlayed the first 10-win seaso How 2 killings exposed the depths of cartels' grip in Mexico's Michoacan state 12/04/2025 12:10am • APATZINGAN, Mexico (AP) — On a steamy night, a farmer from a village of modest tin-roofed homes surrounded by rolling lime orchards in western Mexico’s coastal mountains approached Rev. Gilberto Vergara for help. The drug cartels were extorting him and other growers so heavily that the math no l Family of Colombian man killed in US strike in the Caribbean files human rights challenge 12/03/2025 10:55pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an extrajudicial killing. 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The farmers amassed outside the congressional chamber to protest the G Honolulu to settle lawsuit over police shooting of Micronesian teen for $1M 12/03/2025 09:20pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu’s city council on Wednesday authorized $1 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police. The fatal shooting of Iremamber Sykap in 2021 came amid a national reckoning over police use of force, but the case also highlight Ohio State's and Indiana's top defenses clash in Big Ten Championship 12/03/2025 09:03pm • The quarterback matchup between Indiana's Fernando Mendoza and Ohio State's Julian Sayin is commanding most of the attention going into the Big Ten Championship Game. However, Saturday night's matchup also features the nation's top two ranked scoring defenses. The Buckeyes lead the Football Bowl Sub President Trump's contempt shocks the country's largest Somali community 12/03/2025 08:39pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Even for a president who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country’s largest Somali community. “They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country,” President Donald Trump told repor Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits Republicans as debate over intensifying AI race rages 12/03/2025 08:10pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday as tech executives work to secure favorable federal policies for the artificial intelligence industry, including the limited sale of Nvidia's highly valued computer chips to U.S. Bet365 Bonus Code WTOP365: Grab $150 NBA Bonus, $365 Missouri Promo 12/03/2025 08:09pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Register with the bet365 bonus code WTOP365 to choose an offer for NBA action on Wednesday. Click here to score an instant bonus or sta Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to US personnel, AP sources say 12/03/2025 08:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen's Houthi militants, two people familiar with the findings s Israel launches airstrike in southern Gaza after earlier attack by militants wounded 5 soldiers 12/03/2025 08:03pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said it launched an airstrike on a Hamas militant in southern Gaza late Wednesday in retaliation for an attack earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers. The strike was the latest test for a fragile ceasefire that has mostly held up since early October, despite Safety volunteer charged in the fatal shooting of a Utah 'No Kings' protester 12/03/2025 08:01pm • A safety volunteer accused of fatally shooting a man taking part in a “No Kings” protest last June in Salt Lake City while firing at another man he believed to be a potential mass shooter has been charged with manslaughter, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Matthew Alder allegedly fired three sho Ravens reach a 3-year contract extension with TE Mark Andrews, the franchise leader in catches 12/03/2025 08:00pm • OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens agreed to a three-year contract extension with Mark Andrews on Wednesday, days after the tight end became the franchise's career leader in receptions. Baltimore was facing some significant decisions after this season, with the 30-year-old Andrews an