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The Education Department is dismantling. Here's what that means 11/18/2025 05:28pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely. Offices that serve the nation's sch DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say 11/18/2025 05:28pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Around 250 federal border agents are set to descend on New Orleans in the coming weeks for a two-month immigration crackdown dubbed “Swamp Sweep” that aims to arrest roughly 5,000 people across southeast Louisiana and into Mississippi, according to documents obtained by The Big Ten denies Michigan regent's claim of coercion over $2.4 billion investment plan 11/18/2025 05:05pm • ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The Big Ten Conference pushed back Tuesday on a claim by a University of Michigan regent that Commissioner Tony Petitti threatened to punish the school if it refuses to support a plan that would clear the way for $2.4 billion in private investment in the league. Mark Ber Commissioner Jim Phillips says ACC freed to focus on future with legal fight resolved 11/18/2025 04:30pm • CARY, N.C. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference opened 2025 mired in a legal fight with two member schools while waiting on broadcast partner ESPN to extend a media deal with the league for the long term. Those issues long resolved, the league has been focused on the future, building its brand wit Ex-aide to NYC Mayor Eric Adams avoids prison time as federal judge addresses 'elephant in the room' 11/18/2025 03:47pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams was sentenced Tuesday to three years’ probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams. But as a federal judge announced the sentence for Mohamed Bahi, a liaison to the cit Tuesday turns soggy with rain showers in DC area 11/18/2025 03:23pm • A cool and cloudy Tuesday is expected to turn wet with showers moving into the D.C. area. "High temperatures this afternoon will be in the 40s with wet weather overspreading most of the DMV just in time for the rush hour commute. We'll see pockets of moderate to heavier rain later tonight," 7News Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M in government funds to operate US public radio system 11/18/2025 03:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — National Public Radio will receive approximately $36 million in grant money to operate the nation’s public radio interconnection system under the terms of a court settlement with the federal government's steward of funding for public broadcasting stations. The settlement, annou Injured Giants running back Cam Skattebo defends his WWE 'Monday Night Raw' appearance 11/18/2025 03:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — While Cam Skattebo has not played football for the New York Giants since undergoing season-ending surgery in late October, the rookie running back still has plenty of people around sports talking about him. Skattebo attended WWE's "Monday Night Raw” at Madison Square Garden, alon Meta prevails in historic FTC antitrust case, won't have to break off WhatsApp, Instagram 11/18/2025 03:09pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling Tu Roblox steps up age checks and groups younger users into age-based chats 11/18/2025 03:02pm • Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to chat with other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to communicate with people around their own age. The moves come as the popular gaming platform continues to face criticism and Zelenskyy visits Picasso's 'Guernica' painting after drawing parallel to Ukraine's bombing 11/18/2025 03:01pm • MADRID (AP) — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a one-day visit Tuesday to Spain and took the opportunity to view Pablo Picasso's “Guernica.” It was a move laden with symbolism. Among the last century's most famous paintings, “Guernica” depicts the horrors of war — specificall Brian Walshe remains on trial for murder after pleading guilty to disposing of wife's body 11/18/2025 02:56pm • BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man remains on trial for murder in the death and dismemberment of his wife after pleading guilty just as jury selection began Tuesday to disposing of her body and misleading police. Brian Walshe did not plead guilty to killing his wife, Ana Walshe, an immigrant from S Microsoft partners with Anthropic and Nvidia in cloud infrastructure deal 11/18/2025 02:22pm • Microsoft said Tuesday it is partnering with artificial intelligence company Anthropic and chipmaker Nvidia as part of an AI infrastructure deal that moves the software giant further away from its longtime alliance with OpenAI. Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude that competes with OpenAI's ChatG Marcel Reed's leadership and talent propel No. 3 Texas A&M to 1st 10-0 start since 1992 11/18/2025 01:51pm • COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Marcel Reed wasn’t always a quarterback. He got his start in Pee Wee football as the team’s star running back. But it quickly became clear he could throw better than anyone on the team, so they implemented halfback passes for the young Reed. That wasn’t nearly e Chile's most polarized presidential race in decades boosts the right and divides immigrants 11/18/2025 01:45pm • SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans face perhaps the starkest choice in the history of their country’s young democracy when they vote next month in a presidential runoff that pits hard-right José Antonio Kast against communist Jeannette Jara. Neither candidate cleared the 50% threshold to win, but