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7 Best ETFs to Buy Now 01/14/2026 07:00pm • As 2026 gets underway, many investors are wondering how to position their portfolios for growth while managing volatility in an increasingly complex environment. From geopolitical unrest to a frothy tech sector and shifting interest-rate expectations, there are many trends to consider. The best ETFs Section of GW Parkway will see overnight lane closures until the weekend 01/14/2026 02:28pm • Over the next few nights, the George Washington Parkway will see overnight lane closures. Lanes of the GW Parkway and the Route 50 westbound off-ramp at the overhead crossing of Interstate 66 will be closed from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. from Jan. 14 through Jan. 17. It will involve single-lane closure Proposed billionaires' tax in California rattles Silicon Valley, entangles Gov. Newsom 01/14/2026 12:11am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A proposed billionaires' tax in California has ignited a political uproar in Silicon Valley, with tech titans threatening to leave the state while Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom maneuvers to defeat a levy that he fears will lead to an exodus of wealth. A technology mecca, Californ Stone Bridge High School student struck, killed by Loudoun Co. schools maintenance truck 01/13/2026 06:57pm • A student at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia, was struck and killed Tuesday morning by a Loudoun County Public Schools maintenance truck, according to the county sheriff's office. The driver, a school system employee, struck and killed 20-year-old Calina Yu while she was on her way Wall Street ticks to records after shaking off worries about Trump's feud with the Fed 01/12/2026 05:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Wall Street ticked to more records Monday after bouncing back from losses taken because of worries about the worsening feud between the White House and the Federal Reserve, one that experts warn could lead to higher inflation in the future. The S&P 500 tacked 0.2% onto its prio Apple calls on Google to help smarten up Siri and bring other AI features to the iPhone 01/12/2026 04:52pm • Apple will rely on Google to help finish its efforts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology's latest craze. The deal allowing Apple to tap into Google's AI technology was disclos Google's corporate parent joins $4 trillion club as investors continue to bet on AI breakthroughs 01/12/2026 04:46pm • Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that's become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race. Alphabet reached the threshold just four months after Google dodged th Dump truck driver dies after crash on I-95 in Maryland 01/12/2026 01:00pm • One man is dead and three other people are in the hospital Monday morning following a collision between a tractor-trailer and a dump truck on Interstate 95 in Elkridge, according to Maryland State Police. Police said the dump truck crashed into the back of a parked tractor-trailer between the Har Google teams up with Walmart and other retailers to enable shopping within Gemini AI chatbot 01/11/2026 05:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant. An instant checkout function will allow customers to make pur Theme park-style exhibit booths transform CES into 'Disneyland for techies'�� 01/11/2026 08:18am • After three full days of networking, deal-making and relationship building, why not spend your final hours at the Consumer Electronic Show enjoying yourself? That's what I did. CES can be exhausting ��� navigating 4,000 exhibitors across a dozen venues alongside 140,000 of your closest friends. It's Indiana and Miami in a college-football title matchup that once seemed impossible 01/10/2026 06:00am • It looked improbable two months ago. Two years ago ��� impossible. But against the odds, Miami and Indiana have a date in the College Football Playoff final ��� a first-of-its-kind matchup on Jan. 19 in the second national title game of the expanded-playoff era. The Hoosiers (15-0), the top-seeded National championship game will be a homecoming for Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza 01/10/2026 12:48am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Indiana is headed to the national championship game for the first time in program history. For Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza, that means a chance to end a fairytale season in the place where his story first began. It's been a historic season for Indiana, and Mendoza is large Movie Review: ���Greenland 2: Migration��� is an unmemorable sequel with a memorably newsy title 01/08/2026 03:24pm • Let���s get the obvious thing out of the way first, shall we? There may never have been a better week in the history of the modern world ��� or at least recent cinema ��� to release a movie with ���Greenland��� in the title. Just in case you���re reading this from another era or galaxy, you���ll see Spanish soccer league battles Cloudflare over piracy, says US company ignores illegal content 01/08/2026 03:18pm • MADRID (AP) ��� Once the ball starts rolling in the Spanish league, the game is on for some 50 analysts who start looking for signs of online piracy. They scan websites, social media posts, IPTV platforms and streaming portals in search of illegal broadcasts of La Liga matches. The trained analysts As a shooting unfolded at Brown, students turned to anonymous app for answers before official alerts 01/08/2026 01:58pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn't wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got information almost instantly, in bits and bursts ��� through phones vibrating in pockets, messages from strangers, ru