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Trump nominates White House aide to be top US prosecutor for office probing Letitia James 09/20/2025 09:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday. In a social media post just after he Marchers gather in worldwide protest of financial institutions 'profiting off the climate crisis' 09/20/2025 06:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires' Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump's immigration crackdown and a ceasefir California bans most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations 09/20/2025 06:15pm • California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and swiftly denounced by Trump administration officials. The ban is a Pirates GM Ben Cherington expects to return in 2026 despite another losing season 09/20/2025 05:31pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh general manager Ben Cherington expects to return in 2026 despite the Pirates having losing seasons during each of his six years on the job. Cherington said Saturday that Pirates owner Bob Nutting and team president Travis Williams have not given any indication that he Israeli strikes kill 14 in Gaza City as some countries prepare to recognize Palestinian state 09/20/2025 05:09pm • CAIRO (AP) — Scores of Palestinians, many pushing carts of belongings or carrying their possessions on their backs, fled Gaza City on Saturday as Israel ramped up its offensive, including with strikes that health officials said killed at least 14 people overnight. Later in Israel, thousands joine Naz Hillmon makes history as the Atlanta Dream's first Sixth Player of the Year 09/20/2025 04:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta forward Naz Hillmon was named the WNBA's Sixth Player of the Year on Saturday, making her the first Dream player in franchise history to win the award. Hillmon averaged 8.6 points and 6.2 rebounds for the Dream and made 53 3-pointers after hitting just one across her first t WTOP reflections: Staffers and listeners look back on the work of Jeff Clabaugh 09/20/2025 03:49pm • WTOP staffers, past and present, as well as listeners, remember business reporter Jeff Clabaugh, who died Thursday night at age 63. He was known for delivering money news twice an hour on WTOP’s airwaves and writing short-to-the-point stories for the website. Staffers reflect on their coll Trump's economic promises to Black voters fall short after a modest shift in support for him in 2024 09/20/2025 03:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — At one of his final rallies before the 2024 election, then-candidate Donald Trump warned that Black Americans were losing their jobs in droves and that things would get even worse if he did not return to the White House. “You should demand that they give you the numbers of how Violence erupts at right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands ahead of election 09/20/2025 01:52pm • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands erupted into violence and chaos Saturday as rioters clashed with police and vandalized a political party's office, just weeks before the country holds a general election. Police used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse Russia launches a large-scale attack on Ukraine, killing 3 and wounding dozens 09/20/2025 10:21am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack targeting regions across Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attacks took place across nine regions, in Luigi Mangione's lawyers want death penalty off the table in UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case 09/20/2025 10:18am • NEW YORK (AP) — Luigi Mangione’s lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that authorities prejudiced his case by turning his arrest into a “Marvel movie” spectacle and by public Trump's peace efforts falter as conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza escalate 09/20/2025 09:10am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A month after an Alaskan summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump still seems surprised that his gambit did not pay off with peace in Ukraine. "He’s let me down,” Trump said this week. “He really let me down.” There has been no more progress in t Zohran Mamdani's been called a communist who'll defund the police. Here's where he actually stands 09/20/2025 08:17am • President Donald Trump calls him a “communist." His critics say he wants to defund the police. Zohran Mamdani insists he's just a guy trying to make New York City more affordable. Mamdani 's meteoritic rise to become the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor has put his past and present polic Pakistani dating show sparks anger ahead of its debut on YouTube 09/20/2025 06:48am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — A dating show modeled on “Love Island” that features Pakistani contestants has sparked anger in the Muslim-majority country, despite no episodes being aired yet, and the series being only accessible on YouTube. The country's broadcasting regulator said Saturday it was not in On the front line of Congo’s conflict, a trauma center tells a story of horror and survival 09/20/2025 05:06am • GOMA, Congo (AP) — In a sunlit rehabilitation room, Jerome Jean Claude Amani offers a faint smile. For the first time since losing his wife and children to a rebel attack in eastern Congo, the 35-year-old is standing again — one leg his own, the other made of plastic. “I feel at peace,” said