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Why Colton Herta is leaving IndyCar for junior series F2 01/22/2026 10:47am • DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Colton Herta is well aware it sounds insane to leave IndyCar, where he's one of the series stars and the veteran driver at Andretti Global, and walk away at age 25 with seven full seasons on his resume. All to move to the United Kingdom and race in F2, a junior season lo Colombia imposes tariffs and halts energy sales to Ecuador as trade feud escalates 01/22/2026 10:45am • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia announced Thursday that it will apply a 30% tax on a group of products from Ecuador and will suspend the sale of energy to that country, in response to a matching tariff announced the previous day by the government of Ecuadorian Daniel Noboa. The escalating trade d Prices ticked up in November as Americans keep spending, a key inflation measure shows 01/22/2026 10:39am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked up in November in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated, while consumers spent at a healthy pace. Consumer prices rose 2.8% in November from a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Thursday, up from a Trump's European threats could cause lasting damage to US standing in the world 01/22/2026 10:31am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely a month into his presidency, Joe Biden had a message for Europe. “America is back,” Biden told the Munich Security Conference in 2021. “The transatlantic alliance is back.” It was a promise Biden delivered often as he sought to cast the disruptions of his predecess Texas leads the nation in supplying new residents to other states 01/22/2026 10:29am • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Texas supplied the most new residents of any U.S. state for nine other states, despite having the biggest population growth this decade, according to figures released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau. Texas was the top source of new residents for Alaska, Arkansas, Californi Moore’s 4th budget uses cuts, fund shifts to close $1.5 billion budget gap 01/22/2026 10:04am • Gov. Wes Moore (D) unveiled a $70.8 billion fiscal 2027 budget proposal Wednesday that he said increases funds for education, housing and police initiatives, while closing a $1.5 billion budget gap without increased taxes or fees. The budget, the last of Moore’s curent term, comes as the state At Paris Fashion Week, Issey Miyake turns quiet control into a statement 01/22/2026 10:03am • PARIS (AP) — Issey Miyake brought a monastic calm to Paris on Thursday, staging its IM Men show inside the medieval Collège des Bernardins and sending out sweeping, robe-like silhouettes that matched the venue’s stillness. Stone vaulting and filtered light gave the fall 2026 runway a spiritual, Inflation fears are high. A new poll shows one group is particularly worried 01/22/2026 09:25am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Anxiety about costs and affordability is particularly high among Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians, even at a moment when economic stress is widespread, according to a new poll. About half of Asian American and Pacific Islander adults said they wanted the go Naomi Osaka tones down her walk-on outfit. Turns up the heat at Australian Open 01/22/2026 09:15am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Fashion and friction have been the defining features for Naomi Osaka in two rounds at the Australian Open that couldn't have been more different. Osaka fended off Sorana Cirstea in a tense 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 win at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday night. Cirstea's parting Alex Honnold is climbing Taipei 101 with no ropes, live on TV. It's drawing excitement — and concern 01/22/2026 08:29am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Towering high above Taiwan’s capital city at 1,667 feet (508 meters), Taipei 101 dominates the skyline. The earthquake-proof skyscraper of steel and glass has captured the imagination of professional rock climber Alex Honnold for more than a decade. On Saturday morning, he La Liga to hold a minute of silence before games for victims of train crashes 01/22/2026 08:19am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — La Liga will hold a minute of silence before this weekend’s matches in memory of the victims of the two deadly train accidents in the country in the past week. At least 43 people were killed in southern Spain last Sunday when a high-speed train jumped the track and caused Djokovic one away from 400 Grand Slam match wins; Wawrinka makes history 01/22/2026 07:11am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka made it a day for the ages at the Australian Open. Djokovic improved to 399 wins in Grand Slam matches with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Francesco Maestrelli on Thursday, making the 38-year-old, 24-time major winner just one shy of becom Fire at Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh destroyed homes and displaced thousands of Rohingya 01/22/2026 05:41am • BANGKOK (AP) — A massive fire this week destroyed hundreds of makeshift homes and displaced more than 2,000 people in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, prompting calls Thursday from relief agencies for more funding to build safer housing and help provide emergency aid. The fire Things to do in the DC area: Burns Night, DC Auto Show … and more! 01/22/2026 05:31am • With bagpipes and classic Scottish dishes included, celebrate Scotland this Saturday at Fish Shop in D.C.'s Wharf neighborhood. Fish Shop's event, called Burns Night, celebrates Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, and is inspired by the restaurant's heritage with its first location in Balla 'We were outraged': Parents, students weigh in on Fairfax Co. proposed school boundary changes 01/22/2026 03:55am • This is the third story in Pushing Boundaries — WTOP’s three-part series on Fairfax County Public Schools’ vote on new school boundaries for the first time in 40 years.  As Fairfax County's school board prepares to vote on new boundaries as part of the division's first comprehensive bounda