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Meta buys startup Manus in latest move to advance its artificial intelligence efforts 12/30/2025 11:25am • DETROIT (AP) — Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues an aggressive push to amp up AI offerings across its platforms. The California tech giant declined to disclose financial details of the acquisition. But The Wall Street Journal rep Golf is a family affair for Steve Stricker's family and that includes wife Nicki 12/30/2025 11:00am • Steve Stricker is a 12-time PGA Tour winner and captain of a Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup team that won by a combined score of 38-20. His oldest daughter, Bobbi Maria, has had limited Epson Tour status. His youngest, Izzi, is the Wisconsin State Golf Association amateur of the year. Just don't forge Duke's unlikely ACC title season set to end against Arizona State in Sun Bowl 12/30/2025 10:58am • EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Duke's unlikely Atlantic Coast Conference title didn't get the Blue Devils anywhere close to the College Football Playoff berth that's supposed to go to every Power Four conference champion. The consolation prize comes Wednesday in the Sun Bowl against Arizona State, a team j After quiet off-year elections, Democrats renew worries about Trump interfering in the midterms 12/30/2025 10:46am • If history is a guide, Republicans stand a good chance of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2026. They have just a slim majority in the chamber, and the incumbent party usually gives up seats in midterm elections. President Donald Trump, whose loss of the House halfway through his fi How Prince William County schools' data leak impacts students, families 12/30/2025 10:34am • Prince William County schools mistakenly shared student and parent personal information with Hazel Health, a third-party partner of the school division. The division on Dec. 19 sent a notification to the affected families notifying them that on Dec. 16 Hazel Health inadvertently sent a welcome text European and Canadian leaders discuss US-led peace efforts in Russia-Ukraine war 12/30/2025 10:22am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Leaders from Europe and Canada held talks Tuesday on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv sparred over Russian claims, denied by Ukraine, of a mass drone attack on a lakeside residence used by President Vladimir Concerns over roads in Nigeria after crash that injured Anthony Joshua and killed 2 associates 12/30/2025 09:13am • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Tributes have been paid after the crash that injured British former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed two close associates on Monday, amid growing concern over Nigeria’s roads following the deadly incident near Lagos. Joshua, a two-time heavyweight champion and South Korea will end breeding of bears and extraction of their bile 12/30/2025 09:06am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea said it will formally end its dwindling yet much-criticized bear bile farming industry this week, though about 200 bears are still kept in pens and raised for their gallbladders. The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment announced Tuesday it will ban bre Takeaways from AP report on what sources say was Olympic watchdog's failure to close abuse case 12/30/2025 09:00am • DENVER (AP) — There was an eight-year gap between the time young gymnasts and their parents started sounding warnings about a coach in 2017 and when he was arrested earlier this year on federal child pornography charges. It took the U.S. Center for SafeSport — the agency formed by Congress to co In a tumultuous year, US health policy has been dramatically reshaped under RFK Jr. 12/30/2025 08:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) — In the whirlwind first year of President Donald Trump’s second term, some of the most polarizing changes have taken place within the Department of Health and Human Services, where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has openly rebuffed the medical establishment as he converts the ideas of hi In escalating tensions with Venezuela, Trump says the US 'hit' a coastal drug loading facility 12/30/2025 07:48am • PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. offered few details. Trump initially seemed to confirm a strike in what appeared to be an impromptu radio interview Frid US faith leaders supporting targeted immigrants brace for a tough year ahead 12/30/2025 07:14am • For faith leaders supporting and ministering to anxious immigrants across the United States, 2025 was fraught with challenges and setbacks. For many in these religious circles, the coming year could be worse. The essence of their fears: President Donald Trump has become harsher with his contemptuous US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash 12/30/2025 06:38am • MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have filled the guestbook with objections. Sometime in the spring, the American Battle Monuments Commis New Year's Day 2026: Check out what's open and closed in the DC area 12/30/2025 06:17am • It's the time of year to celebrate the transition from 2025 to 2026. With that, there will be closures for the D.C. region for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Transit and travel Metro announced that Metrorail will operate on a regular weekday schedule and run until 2 a.m. on New Year's Eve, Analysis: 2025 sees drastic changes in global security dynamics. Can democracies keep up? 12/30/2025 06:09am • As 2025 closes, the defining highlight in global security is not a single war but a systemic shift in how power is exercised and conflict is fought. The world moved further away from formally declared wars and deeper into sustained confrontation, with gray-zone pressure, cyber intrusions, economi