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Trump administration wants to ensure Mexican crews operating trains in the US can speak English 12/19/2025 07:49pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ��� A number of Mexican train crews who had just hauled trains over the border to American rail yards in Texas had trouble understanding important safety information in English during recent focused inspections the Trump administration ordered. Railroads Union Pacific and CPKC routi Forecasters issue rare weather warning as strong gusts fuel wildfire threats in Colorado 12/19/2025 07:47pm • The National Weather Service on Friday issued a rare warning for part of Colorado's Front Range as hurricane-force winds and tinder dry conditions boosted the threat of wildfire across several counties, while flood warnings were issued in Oregon as rivers there swelled from heavy rain. It marked ano NTSB unclear who was at controls in jet crash that killed ex-NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and 6 others 12/19/2025 07:14pm • STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) ��� Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a business jet carrying retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others tried to return to a North Carolina airport just after takeoff but plowed into light poles and a tree line short of the runway, killing everyone on b Northern California city to reform police after racist texts scandal 12/19/2025 06:43pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� A Northern California city whose police department came under national scrutiny after it was revealed that some officers shared racist and sexist texts, used excessive force and falsified records has reached a settlement agreement to implement a series of reforms, officials an NC State defeats Memphis 31-7 in Gasparilla Bowl 12/19/2025 06:21pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) ��� CJ Bailey threw for 221 yards and two touchdowns, and scored another on the ground as NC State took down Memphis 31-7 in the Gasparilla Bowl on Friday. The Wolfpack concluded their season at 8-5 (4-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) and won a bowl game for the first time since the 201 Implosion takes down a nearly century-old Mississippi River bridge 12/19/2025 05:20pm • A nearly 100-year-old bridge over the Mississippi River between Iowa and Wisconsin was imploded Friday, an unusual spectacle that clears the way for a modern replacement. The Mississippi River Bridge, also known as the Black Hawk Bridge, was completed in 1931. It connects Lansing, Iowa, to Wisconsin What to know about the man authorities say fatally shot 2 Brown students and an MIT professor 12/19/2025 05:07pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Several days of investigations into the Brown University mass shooting and the slaying of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor ended when authorities discovered evidence they say indicates the killings were committed by the same man, who was then found dead fro Former New York state prison guard sentenced to up to life in prison in inmate's death 12/19/2025 04:48pm • UTICA, N.Y. (AP) ��� A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera footage was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison. David Kingsley also received a 25-year sentence for a manslaughter conviction in A California fisherman may have broken records by catching a 10.25-pound canary rockfish 12/19/2025 04:21pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� A Northern California man caught a plump canary rockfish he says weighed in at 10.25 pounds (4.65 kilograms), likely setting state and world records. Mendocino County fisherman Brendan Walsh, 26, said he caught the fish Tuesday off the coast of Albion, about 150 miles (240 kil Ecuadorian police arrest 2 suspects in the armed attack that killed soccer player Pineida 12/19/2025 03:36pm • QUITO (AP) ��� Ecuadorian police have arrested two suspects in the killing of soccer player Mario Pineida, who was shot in an attack this week that also killed his partner and wounded his mother, underscoring the rising violence in the Andean nation. The 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender a Western Michigan rolls Kennesaw State 41-6 in a Myrtle Beach Bowl matchup of conference champs 12/19/2025 02:49pm • MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) ��� Jalen Buckley ran for 174 yards, and Western Michigan scored on a fumble recovery and a pick-6 on its way to rolling Kennesaw State 41-6 in the Myrtle Beach Bowl on Friday. The Broncos finished their season at 10-4 and became the first team in program history to win a con Army sergeant pleads not guilty to charges that he shot 5 people at a Georgia base 12/19/2025 01:54pm • FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) ��� An Army sergeant appearing before a military judge Friday pleaded not guilty in the shootings of five people, including his romantic partner, at a Georgia base where he faces a trial by court-martial in June. Sgt. Quornelius Radford, 28, is charged with attempted murder an Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility that left houses without water 12/19/2025 11:18am • Russia carried out cyberattacks against infrastructure and websites in Denmark in 2024 and 2025, Danish authorities say in a new assessment published this week describing new cases not previously reported. Moscow was responsible for ���destructive and disruptive��� cyberattacks on a Danish water uti NASCAR's Greg Biffle killed in plane crash. Here are some other athletes who died in the air 12/19/2025 08:37am • Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was believed to be on the plane that crashed outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, killing all seven people aboard. He joins a somber roll of athletes who died in plane or helicopter crashes, including fellow race car drivers Alan Kulwicki and Davey All Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments 12/19/2025 08:01am • Every animal with a brain needs sleep ��� and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal ���even though it���s actually very risky,��� said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon i