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Virginia Tech food safety expert offers advice on keeping turkey free of germs 11/17/2025 08:41pm • When it comes to reducing the chance of foodborne illness, experts generally center advice around four concepts: clean, separate, cook and chill. "Make sure you're starting with clean hands," said Melissa Wright, food safety extension specialist at Virginia Tech. "Use warm water and soap, and was Fed's Cook blasts mortgage fraud allegations against her as 'baseless' in letter to AG Bondi 11/17/2025 08:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday, lawyers for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook disputed allegations by a Trump administration official that she committed mortgage fraud. President Donald Trump used the accusation as a basis to seek her firing, the first time The Latest: UN approves US Gaza plan with possible future path to an independent Palestinian state 11/17/2025 08:29pm • The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security and envisions a possible future path to an independent Palestinian state. The vote was a crucial next step for the fragile ceasefire and efforts to outline Gazaâ Cost projection for new Key Bridge doubles, with expected opening far later than first hoped 11/17/2025 08:21pm • Rebuilding Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is going to cost a lot more, and take a lot longer, than originally hoped. The Maryland Transportation Authority said Monday its board is updating its cost estimate range for the new bridge as $4.3-$5.2 billion — well over double the state's initi Ja'Marr Chase's spitting incident is the latest example of Bengals' lack of discipline 11/17/2025 08:12pm • Just when Cincinnati Bengals fans thought this season couldn't get worse, Ja'Marr Chase spat on Jalen Ramsey during the fourth quarter of Sunday's 34-12 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers to provide the ugliest moment of a brutal year. It was also another sign that the Bengals may be the league's most Epstein files and affordability concerns threaten to knock Trump's 2nd presidency off course 11/17/2025 07:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ’s veneer of political invulnerability has begun to crack as he struggles to find his footing on Americans’ concerns about affordability and fails to extinguish a push by renegade Republicans to release more files from the Jeffrey Epstein case. The twin The Cardinals are losing games and losing the discipline they had built under Jonathan Gannon 11/17/2025 07:27pm • TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals were not the NFL's most talented team during the second year of coach Jonathan Gannon's tenure, but they were among the most disciplined, committing the league's second-fewest penalties in 2024. Their mantra was simple: Be accountable. Don't beat yourself. Quentin Lake's elbow injury in Rams' victory over Seahawks casts a pall over his surging team 11/17/2025 07:14pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams' defense has been one of the NFL's best since midway through last season, and Quentin Lake has been a major reason for its rise. Lake's elbow injury from the Rams' 21-19 victory over Seattle doesn't just cast a pall over a breakthrough win that put Los Angel Dan Quinn's defense was better than Joe Whitt Jr.'s, but the Washington Commanders keep losing 11/17/2025 07:01pm • Dan Quinn's defense was better than Joe Whitt Jr.'s has been. Otherwise, the Washington Commanders made the sorts of mistakes — Marcus Mariota's overtime interception, Matt Gay's flubbed field-goal attempts, Mike Sainristil's dropped punt and so on — that are contributing to a failure of a seaso New laws passed, others yet to be voted on, as Prince George's Co. Council ends year 11/17/2025 07:00pm • The Prince George’s County Council is getting ready to wrap up its legislative year with a busy final two days of the session. On Monday, the council passed what’s been dubbed as Zoey’s Law. The new law, which passed by a 10-0 vote, is named after 3-year-old Zoey Harrison, who was killed What to Do When You Become the Family Caregiver 11/17/2025 07:00pm • Naomi Williams, a 47-year-old single mother in Augusta, Georgia, gave birth 15 years ago to her only child, Noah. During her pregnancy and regular doctor visits, she expressed concerns that were mostly ignored. Her blood pressure was high, her feet were swollen, and she gave birth by emergency cesar 8 Best Emerging-Market ETFs to Buy for 2026 11/17/2025 07:00pm • Warren Buffett famously said to "never bet against America," and that advice has held up for more than a decade. Investors who avoided U.S. stocks during that period likely trailed the broad market. Those who actively bet against them outside of brief downturns in 2008 or 2022 did even worse. Even s Trump says he will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia on eve of crown prince's Washington visit 11/17/2025 06:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite some concern within the administration that such a sale could lead to China gaining access to the U.S. technology behind the advanced weapon system. The announcement came on the eve of Saudi New York Jets bench struggling quarterback Justin Fields for Tyrod Taylor, AP source says 11/17/2025 06:41pm • Justin Fields is heading to the bench and Tyrod Taylor is replacing him as the New York Jets' starting quarterback. Coach Aaron Glenn decided to play Taylor over the embattled Fields at Baltimore on Sunday, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Monday. Glenn said One issue is uniting Americans in a time of polarization, according to a new poll 11/17/2025 06:37pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Pessimism about the country's future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what's ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from the American Communities Project. And despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that crime is o