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New DC museum focuses on helping you achieve the American dream 09/25/2025 12:56pm • What is your American dream and how do you achieve it? A new museum, steps from the White House, hopes to help answer that question. “This space is dedicated to the idea of the American dream and the sense that this is an ideal worth striving for, worth celebrating,” said Emily Mitzner, d Israel is increasingly being treated as a global pariah. It's shielded by Trump, for now 09/25/2025 12:53pm • When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the United Nations on Friday, it will be at the helm of a country that is increasingly being treated as a pariah, even by some of its longtime allies. Western countries are outraged by Israel's intensifying offensive in the Ga AP, Reuters demand answers from Israeli government on airstrike that killed journalists last month 09/25/2025 12:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Two major news agencies demanded that Israel explain what happened during a strike on a hospital in Gaza last month that killed five journalists, calling for concrete actions and accountability to ensure it doesn't happen again. Reuters and The Associated Press — through their to One Tech Tip: How to move your music library to another streaming platform 09/25/2025 12:17pm • LONDON (AP) — Want to switch to Apple Music because you can't find your favorite indie band on Spotify? Or maybe you're on Amazon Music but saw a new subscriber offer on Tidal that's too good to pass up. There are a variety of reasons to change music providers. But if you're thinking about it, and Israeli strikes kill at least 17 Palestinians in Gaza as international pressure for ceasefire grows 09/25/2025 12:17pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck houses and tents in central and southern Gaza Thursday, crushing families inside and killing at least 17 people, including 10 children and three women, local health officials said, as international pressure for a ceasefire continued to grow. On the s Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn to undergo surgery for a collapsed lung 09/25/2025 12:11pm • FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn will undergo surgery for a collapsed lung, the team said Thursday. In an announcement by general manager Jim Nill, the Stars said Benn was diagnosed with the injury late in its preseason game Tuesday night against Minnesota. Nill said Benn is ex What we know about how a government shutdown would unfold 09/25/2025 11:51am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The threat of a government shutdown has become a recurring event in Washington, though most of the time lawmakers and the president are able to head it off. This time, however, prospects for a last-minute compromise look rather bleak. Republicans have crafted a short-term measur US home sales sluggish in August despite late-summer mortgage rate slide 09/25/2025 11:31am • Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes remained sluggish in August, even as a late-summer slide in mortgage rates brought home loan borrowing costs to a 10-month low. Existing home sales slipped 0.2% last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million units, the National Associat What to know about the opposition around renaming new Pell grants after Trump 09/25/2025 10:51am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A proposal to brand a new type of federal Pell Grant as “Trump Grants” has sparked pushback from Rhode Island lawmakers who want the program to retain the name of its creator — the state’s longest-serving U.S. senator. The name change is currently tucked inside a Ho Laila Lockhart Kraner carries 'Gabby’s Dollhouse' positivity to DreamWorks’ live-action hybrid film 09/25/2025 10:50am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Laila Lockhart Kraner first slipped on the headband and cat ears for “Gabby’s Dollhouse” at age 11, she couldn’t have predicted how her character’s mantras of positivity and resilience and “failing fantastically” without giving up would shape her own life. Six New York Liberty GM feels team needs to evolve and be more innovative to keep up with WNBA trends 09/25/2025 10:50am • NEW YORK (AP) — New York general manager Jonathan Kolb decided to make a coaching change so the Liberty could evolve for the future and not live in the past. “Very serious thought and consideration was made to retaining Sandy (Brondello), but ultimately we determined that evolution and innovatio Ryan Walters resigns as Oklahoma's top public schools official to lead conservative educators' group 09/25/2025 10:22am • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican Ryan Walters, Oklahoma's top public schools official who lauded President Donald Trump, pledged to put a Turning Point USA chapter in every high school to honor Charlie Kirk and end what he called “wokeness” in public schools, is resigning to lead a conservative Palestinian President Abbas appears via video at UN General Assembly after US blocked his visa 09/25/2025 09:41am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Abbas appears via video at UN General Assembly after US blocked his visa. Fewer Americans file for jobless benefits last week despite signs of a slowing labor market 09/25/2025 08:46am • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. jobless claim applications fell to their lowest level in two months last week as layoffs remain low despite mounting evidence of a softening labor market. The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the week ending Sept. 20 fell by 14,000 to 218,000, the Lab China gives up developing-country benefits to boost WTO in face of Trump tariffs 09/25/2025 08:12am • SHANGHAI (AP) — China has said it would no longer seek the special treatment given to developing countries in World Trade Organization agreements — a change long demanded by the United States. Commerce Ministry officials said Wednesday the move was an attempt to boost the global trading system a