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Federal government to withhold $40M from California for not enforcing trucker English requirements 10/15/2025 06:19pm • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he will withhold $40 million from California because it is the only state that is failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers. An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an ille Georgia man charged with murder in the death of his 6-month old son after kidnap claim 10/15/2025 06:14pm • JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) ��� A suburban Atlanta man has been charged with murder in the death of his six-month-old son after initially telling police the baby was kidnapped during an armed robbery. Antonio Pearce told police on Sunday that his son, Nnakai Pratt, was snatched by robbers. Clayton County Po Faulty engineering led to implosion of Titan submersible headed to Titanic wreckage, NTSB finds 10/15/2025 06:06pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failur Proposal for toll lane extension along Capital Beltway���s south side on hold 10/15/2025 04:59pm • A plan to extend toll lanes along an 11-mile stretch of the south side of the Capital Beltway is on hold, after the D.C. region���s Transportation Planning Board voted Wednesday to revisit the project next year. The board, which includes members from Maryland, D.C. and Virginia local governments, Jury deliberates in trial of 3 New York corrections officers charged in inmate's fatal beating 10/15/2025 04:44pm • UTICA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the trial of three former New York state corrections officers charged in the fatal beating of an inmate that was captured on bodycam video. Lawyers spent most of the day delivering closing arguments in a Utica court in the trial of Mathew G Supreme Court seems inclined to limit race-based electoral districts under the Voting Rights Act 10/15/2025 03:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that has helped root out racial discrimination in voting for more than a half century, a change that would boost Republican electoral prospects, particularly across the South. During 2 1/2 ho UN warns Colombia over mercury contamination in Atrato River, calls crisis a human rights emergency 10/15/2025 03:26pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� The United Nations warned that mercury contamination from illegal gold mining in Colombia���s Atrato River basin has created a ���serious and ongoing human rights crisis,��� threatening the health and survival of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities who depend on the Walking is good for you. Walking backward can add to the benefits 10/15/2025 02:32pm • Here���s a simple way to switch up your walking routine, according to experts: try going backward. Taking a brisk walk is an exercise rich in simplicity, and it can have impressive mental and physical benefits: stronger bones and muscles, cardiovascular fitness and stress relief, to name a few. But AFC North leader Pittsburgh travels to reeling Cincinnati for Thursday night matchup 10/15/2025 02:22pm • Pittsburgh (4-1) at Cincinnati (2-4) Thursday, 8:15 p.m. EDT, Prime Video. BetMGM line: Steelers by 5 1/2. Against the spread: Steelers 3-2; Bengals 2-4 Series record: Steelers lead 71-40. Last meeting: Bengals won 19-17 in Pittsburgh on Jan. 4. Last week: Steelers beat Browns 23-9; Bengals lost at Florida judge grants protective order against US Rep. Cory Mills at request of ex-girlfriend 10/15/2025 12:02pm • LAKE CITY, Florida (AP) ��� A Florida judge has granted a protective order against Republican U.S. Rep. Cory Mills at the request of a former girlfriend who claimed that he threatened to release nude images of her and physically harm her future boyfriends after she broke up with him. Under the order Why a Supreme Court case from Louisiana will matter for the future of the Voting Rights Act 10/15/2025 11:28am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Voting rights activists were relieved in 2023 when, in a surprise to some, the Supreme Court upheld the most important remaining element of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling forced Alabama and later Louisiana to redraw their congressional maps to give Black residents greater repr Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston though it's up to FIFA to choose sites 10/15/2025 11:02am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been ���taken over��� by unrest. Foxborough, Massachusetts, home to the NFL's New England Patriots and about 30 m Photos show polar bears chilling at home in abandoned Russian research station 10/15/2025 10:18am • Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia���s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov. The photographer was filming the landscape of Kolyuchin Island during a cruise in the Chukchi Sea in September, when he noticed polar bea Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas 10/15/2025 10:03am • SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) ��� As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they fed the line from the rocky shore down to the seafloor ��� home to Nobody in the Southeast was over .500 last year. All 5 teams expect to be better this season 10/15/2025 08:10am • The Southeast Division set records last season. They weren���t good records. Orlando won the division at 41-41. That means the other Southeast teams ��� Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte and Washington ��� were, obviously, under the .500 mark. Combined, the winning percentage of the five teams was .378. Sin