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After losing her partner to suicide, woman successfully advocates for barriers on DC bridge 10/14/2025 02:54pm • The Taft Bridge along Connecticut Avenue Northwest has been the site of multiple suicides. D.C.’s Department of Transportation has now installed temporary pedestrian fencing on the bridge, as part of a project to increase safety and prevent suicide attempts. Chelsea Van Thof’s partner, Peter Coach Tomasson fired while star-studded Sweden in crisis in World Cup qualifying 10/14/2025 02:39pm • Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson was fired on Tuesday after overseeing a woeful World Cup qualifying campaign in which he failed to get the best out of a team filled with players from Europe's leading clubs. Tomasson, a former Denmark striker hired last year as Sweden’s first foreign-born coach, los Warner, Kaine push bill to shield federal workers from evictions, defaults amid shutdown 10/14/2025 01:57pm • As the federal government shutdown stretches into its third week, Virginia’s U.S. senators are backing a bid to shield federal workers and contractors from the fallout. Last week, Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine joined 16 other Senate Democrats in introducing the Federal Employee Civil Reli A team of artisans brings Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life 10/14/2025 01:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When Tamara Deverell, the production designer on Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” first strode across the nearly finished set of Victor Frankenstein’s lab, she couldn’t help herself. Deverell had by then spent countless hours toiling over the film’s central set, a m French prime minister will suspend a pension reform to avoid government collapse 10/14/2025 12:23pm • PARIS (AP) — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday announced he would suspend a much-debated plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, in a move aimed at preventing his fragile minority government from being toppled. After a week of political turmoil, the newly reappointed Leco Espanyol's new American owner wants Spanish club to build a winning mentality 10/14/2025 11:52am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — In Barcelona, Espanyol is perpetually in the shadow of the Spanish city's other — much more famous — soccer club. Espanyol's new American owner wants to change that by slowly yet surely working to create a winning mentality. “That’s the ambition that we have: To ch 3 Italian carabinieri killed in apparently deliberate farmhouse explosion 10/14/2025 11:43am • MILAN (AP) — Three carabinieri militarized police officers were killed and another 13 carabinieri and police officers were injured in an explosion allegedly set by three middle-aged siblings who had been fighting eviction from a family farm near the northeastern Italian city of Verona early Tuesda Editorial Roundup: United States 10/14/2025 11:21am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Oct. 11 The Washington Post on the revival of the U.S.-China trade war The United States and China, inveterate rivals yet inextricably interlinked, are once again barreling into a trade war nobody wants. Tit-for-tat tariffs and exp J&J lays out plan to splinter orthopedics business into separate company 10/14/2025 10:48am • Johnson & Johnson is narrowing its focus again, nearly four years after peeling off its consumer health business. The health care giant said Tuesday that it will separate its orthopedics business into a standalone company known as DePuy Synthes. The move leaves J&J focused on its pharmaceuti Barack Obama joins fight for US House control, urges vote for California districts to counter Trump 10/14/2025 10:28am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama is entering the fight for U.S. House control by appearing in a 30-second ad urging California voters to approve a November ballot proposal that could add as many as five Democrat-held House seats in California. Proposition 50 would dramatically reshape California's Max Greyserman has five runner-up finishes and is drawing some parallels to Cam Young 10/14/2025 09:56am • Max Greyserman is up to No. 31 in the world ranking and can count on a return trip to the Masters next year if he stays in the top 50 over the next few months. But this runner-up business is getting old. Greyserman now has five runner-up finishes in his 53 starts over two years, the most recent when In Iceland, a town still shaken by volcanic eruptions tries to recover 10/14/2025 09:01am • GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Vignir Kristinsson smiles as two women, the only customers all morning, enter his gift shop filled with handmade things of oak. After perusing decorations ranging from animals to kitchen cutting boards, one woman bought a small black-stained tree. After decades of making GM to take a $1.6 billion hit as tax incentives for EVs are slashed and emission rules ease 10/14/2025 08:21am • General Motors will record a negative impact of $1.6 billion in its next quarter after tax incentives for electric vehicles were slashed by the U.S. and rules governing emissions are relaxed. Shares fell less than 2% before the opening bell Tuesday. The EV tax credit ended last month. The clean veh Nations meet to consider regulations to drive a green transition in shipping 10/14/2025 08:00am • The world’s largest maritime nations gathered in London on Tuesday to consider adopting regulations that would move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels to slash emissions. If the deal is adopted, this will be the first time a global fee is imposed on planet-warming greenhouse gas emission CAS rejects Israel's effort to participate in artistic gymnastics worlds 10/14/2025 07:00am • LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected appeals by the Israel Gymnastics Federation to be allowed to compete at a world championships in Indonesia this weekend. The CAS also turned down Israel's request to force the International Gymnastic Federation (FIG) to g