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Wall Street falls in light trading on the final day of 2025, another banner year for markets 12/31/2025 05:47pm • Wall Street closed out another banner year for stocks Wednesday with a downbeat finish that extended the market’s recent losing streak to a fourth day. The S&P 500 gave up 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq composite closed 0.8% lower. Trading volume was very thin Trump administration orders a Colorado coal-fired power generator to stay open 12/31/2025 05:34pm • FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — The Trump administration has told another coal-fired power facility to remain open, this time ordering the owners of a Colorado electricity generating unit to keep it running beyond its Wednesday retirement date. Compliance will cost Tri-State Generation and Transmissio Patriots defensive lineman Christian Barmore accused of throwing girlfriend to the ground 12/31/2025 05:17pm • New England Patriots defensive lineman Christian J. Barmore is facing a domestic assault and battery charge after his girlfriend told police he threw her to the ground in August at his home outside Boston. A criminal complaint issued Dec. 18 claims Barmore, 26, briefly took the woman's phone, threw Disney World worker is injured trying to stop runaway boulder at Indiana Jones show 12/31/2025 05:17pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Walt Disney World worker in Florida was injured while attempting to stop a large runaway prop boulder from rolling into seated spectators at the Indiana Jones live show. The worker at the “Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular” at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios park was Trump administration terminates lease for Washington's 3 public golf courses 12/31/2025 04:49pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended the lease agreement for three public golf courses in Washington, a move that offers President Donald Trump an additional opportunity to put his stamp on another piece of the nation's capital. The National Links Trust, the nonprofit that has o Prominent California farmer pleads not guilty to killing estranged wife in Arizona 12/31/2025 04:35pm • HOLBROOK, Ariz. (AP) — A prominent California farmer has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the shooting death of his estranged wife at her home in an eastern Arizona mountain community. Michael Abatti, 63, made his first appearance Wednesday in Navajo County Superior Court after being extra Department of Justice is reviewing more than 5.2 million documents related to Jeffrey Epstein 12/31/2025 03:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also increases the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating release of the files, according to a person briefed on a letter s These bipartisan bills were noncontroversial — until Trump vetoed them 12/31/2025 02:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term on Tuesday, rejecting two low-profile bipartisan bills, a move that had the effect of punishing backers who had opposed the president's positions on other issues. Trump vetoed drinking water pipeline legislation fr Kalshi Promo Code WTOP: Claim $10 Bonus for Miami-Ohio St., CFP Predictions 12/31/2025 02:14pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Dive into the College Football Playoffs Wednesday night by signing up with the Kalshi promo code WTOP and collect a bonus. Sign up an As CFP plods along, transfers and coaching moves don't wait. Oregon's Dan Lanning wants change 12/31/2025 02:01pm • DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It's the biggest time of year in college football. And it has become a circus, with coaches on the move everywhere and in some cases essentially trying to work at two schools at the same time. On top of that, players will be formally on the move as well. Oregon coach Dan L Russian drone attack injures 3 Ukrainian children as Putin expresses confidence in victory 12/31/2025 01:51pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in the southern Ukraine city of Odesa in an overnight attack that injured six people, including a toddler and two other children, officials said Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence in hi Vanderbilt punter's illegal kick sets up Iowa for an easy touchdown in ReliaQuest Bowl 12/31/2025 01:49pm • TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Iowa scored a touchdown late in first half of the ReliaQuest Bowl on Wednesday as the result of a quirky play involving an illegal kick by the Vanderbilt punter. On fourth down at the Vandy 15, punter Nick Haberer took the snap and began moving toward the line of scrimmage as if Palestinians watch as Israeli bulldozers claw down their West Bank homes 12/31/2025 01:24pm • NUR SHAMS REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank watched as Israeli military bulldozers pulled down their homes Wednesday as part of a nearly year-long incursion into the territory's northern refugee camps. The scene in Nur Shams has been repeated often acros Authorities investigating damage to undersea telecom cable in Gulf of Finland 12/31/2025 01:08pm • HELSINKI (AP) — Authorities are investigating damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland early Wednesday that occurred between the capitals of Finland and Estonia. Finnish authorities seized and inspected the vessel suspected to have caused the damage, the country's bord Hong Kong greets 2026 without fireworks after deadliest blaze in decades 12/31/2025 01:03pm • HONG KONG (AP) — Fireworks are typically a celebratory centerpiece of Hong Kong's New Year celebrations. Not this year. The territory greeted 2026 without spectacular and colorful explosions in the sky over its iconic Victoria Harbor after a massive fire in November that killed at least 161 peopl