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Senate confirmation of Trump nominee cements his shake-up of top civil rights agency 10/07/2025 06:23pm • The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to fill a critical vacancy at the top agency for worker rights, restoring it to the full power needed to deepen his overhaul of civil rights enforcement. The confirmation of Brittany Panuccio as a commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com The ACC's 1st run with Atlantic-to-Pacific league travel offers tweaks, lessons for Year 2 10/07/2025 05:46pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ask California women's coach Charmin Smith about her team's first run of cross-country travel for Atlantic Coast Conference games last year, and she'll shrug off the question about the challenges of doing it. “We’re in the ACC, we’re happy to be in the ACC,” she said Defending champion Arsenal loses Women’s Champions League opener to Lyon; Barcelona thrashes Bayern 10/07/2025 05:37pm • Defensive mistakes cost Arsenal again as it kicked off its defense of the Women’s Champions League title with a 2-1 home loss to Lyon on Tuesday. Alessia Russo gave Arsenal an early lead before Melchie Dumornay’s quick double turned the match around for record eight-time winner Lyon in the first Voting is underway in California on new maps that could swing US House control, check Trump's power 10/07/2025 05:32pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The midterm elections might be a year away, but the fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California. Voting opened statewide Monday on whether to dramatically reshape California's congressional districts to add as many as five Democrat-held seats in Congress — a Jaguars counting on more heart-pounding plays than head-scratching ones from QB Trevor Lawrence 10/07/2025 05:17pm • JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — It must be somewhat maddening to coach Trevor Lawrence. The Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback makes head-scratching decisions like leaping over the goal line on a designed tush push, running two steps past the line of scrimmage before releasing the ball and declining easy Trials delayed for 2 Uvalde school police officers, 1 to be moved out of town 10/07/2025 04:47pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The trials for the two former school police officers facing charges over the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, will be delayed, and one will be moved out of the city where the attack occurred, their lawyers said Tuesday. Former Uvalde Gold futures rise above $4,000 per ounce for the first time 10/07/2025 04:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Gold futures soared above $4,000 per troy ounce for the first time Tuesday, as many investors seek a safe place to park their money during the continuing U.S. government shutdown. The going price for New York spot gold had previously closed at $3,960.60 per troy ounce — the stand Taste of NoVA relocates venue due to government shutdown 10/07/2025 03:40pm • This weekend’s two-day Taste of NoVA food and drink festival is relocating from the National Museum of the U.S. Army at Fort Belvoir to Prince William County due to the federal government shutdown. Northern Virginia Magazine’s signature event will be held at the NOVA LIVE campus near Manassas Bengals acquire Joe Flacco from the Browns in a trade that also involves draft picks 10/07/2025 03:35pm • Joe Flacco is on the move again. The Cincinnati Bengals (2-3) acquired the veteran quarterback from the Cleveland Browns along with a 2026 sixth-round draft pick on Tuesday for a fifth-round pick next season. The 40-year-old Flacco gives Cincinnati another option. Jake Browning has struggled since r Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown 10/07/2025 03:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration warned on Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been long-standing policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. Tr Former home of Manassas Park mother Mamta Kafle Bhatt going up for auction 10/07/2025 03:25pm • The Manassas Park home in which police believe Mamta Kafle Bhatt, the missing Nepali nurse and mother, was killed by her husband in late July 2024 is going to auction. The house will be subject to a foreclosure auction Oct. 16 at 4:15 p.m. inside Prince William County Circuit Court at 9311 Lee Av LeBron James teased 'the decision of all decisions' announcement. It was an ad 10/07/2025 03:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James had another “decision” to announce. Turns out, it was an ad. The Los Angeles Lakers star teased that he would have something to say Tuesday. The “decision” reference is a nod to how he announced in July 2010 that he was joining the Miami Heat. It was suppose Rolando Villazón directs opera at the world's top houses while still singing 10/07/2025 02:42pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Tenor Rolando Villazón was singing the title role in Massenet's “Werther” in 2006 at Nice, France, when he started thinking about how he would direct the opera. “I said, ‘oh, this last act is very difficult. He shot himself and keeps singing for 40 minutes.' And so, what w US Ryder Cup a mess that not even another task force could fix 10/07/2025 02:39pm • The best news out of the American camp since losing the Ryder Cup again to the Europeans is that no one has suggested another task force. The path forward is no less muddled than it was leaving Scotland in 2014. An Indiana club pro — Ted Bishop, the PGA of America president — decided that Tom Wa EU proposes steel industry protections, rattling UK manufacturers 10/07/2025 02:04pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday proposed cutting by almost half its tariff-free quota on steel and steel products, effectively adding large tariffs on imports from countries including China, India, Turkey and the United Kingdom, which said the measures would wreck the British steel i