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Colombia's ELN rebels say they will only stop kidnappings for ransom if government funds cease-fire 12/26/2023 03:09pm • BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ��� The head of Colombia���s largest remaining rebel group said on Monday it would only abide by a recent agreement to suspend the kidnappings of civilians for ransom if the government keeps its promise to finance projects that could provide the rebels with alternate sources of Baltimore's new approach to police training looks at the effects of trauma, importance of empathy 12/26/2023 09:36am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A three-minute viral video shows an irate Baltimore police officer berating a teenager because he ignored orders to stop skateboarding and called the officer ���dude.��� ���Obviously your parents don���t put a foot in your butt quite enough because you don���t understand the meani The death toll rises to 18 in a furnace explosion at a Chinese-owned nickel plant in Indonesia 12/26/2023 06:55am • PALU, Indonesia (AP) ��� The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia���s Sulawesi island rose to 18 on Tuesday, as police ordered the plant to stop operations until an investigation is completed. The blast, which occurred on Sunday, was t Whisky wooing young Chinese away from 'baijiu' as top distillers target a growing market 12/25/2023 10:56pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� A distillery in southwestern China is aiming to tap a growing taste among young Chinese for whisky in place of the traditional ���baijiu��� liquor used to toast festive occasions. The more than $100 million distillery owned by Pernod Ricard at the UNESCO World Heritage site Mount E Tommy DeVito benched at halftime of Giants loss to the Eagles 12/25/2023 09:55pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Tommy DeVito wanted to become a brand ��� he filed for a trademark on his ���Tommy Cutlets��� nickname ��� as much as he wanted to become the starting quarterback for the New York Giants. He still has designs on plastering his name on pizzas and pastas ��� but the one endorseme Kalen DeBoer is a South Dakota man through and through. It shows in his work at Washington 12/25/2023 12:39pm • Kalen DeBoer got called into the athletic director's office a few days after the University of Sioux Falls won its third national championship in four years. The 2009 Cougars had just finished one of the most dominating seasons in NAIA history. In Willie Sanchez's mind, DeBoer had outgrown the small What to do when someone gives you a gift you don���t really want 12/25/2023 07:37am • (CNN) ��� When Abby Eckel saw the small jewelry gift bag her husband gave her for her birthday, she thought she knew exactly what was inside ��� a ring with a morganite gemstone that she had requested. But when Eckel opened the package and saw a necklace instead, she couldn���t hide her disappointme EXCLUSIVE: American prisoner in Russia calls on Biden to do more to secure his release 12/25/2023 06:27am • On Christmas Eve, the phone rang at 5:58 a.m. The call rolled to voicemail. The voice on the message was very familiar, even though he and this WTOP reporter had never spoken before. Calm, polite and quietly desperate, the voice said, ���My name is Paul Whelan. I���m a U.S. citizen being held Ukraine snubs Russia, celebrates Christmas on Dec. 25 for first time 12/25/2023 05:15am • Ukrainian Orthodox Christians attended services on Sunday as the country for the first time celebrated Christmas on Dec. 25, after the government changed the date from Jan. 7, when most Orthodox believers celebrate, as a snub to Russia. "All Ukrainians are together," said Ukrainian President Volodym Mason Rudolph's reward for Steelers' win over the Bengals should be another start in Seattle 12/24/2023 03:10pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Mason Rudolph didn't get ahead of himself. Nor should he. Call it the residue of six years spent mostly as an afterthought for an organization that said once upon a time it regarded him as a first-round pick. So while the Pittsburgh Steelers longtime backup quarterback soaked in Grand Canyon's Tyon Grant-Foster is thriving despite a pair of near-death experiences 12/24/2023 01:36pm • PHOENIX (AP) ��� The darkest path often presents as the easiest one, a facade funneling into a trap. Tyon Grant-Foster saw the lurking danger behind the illusion but refused to detour no matter what life threw in his way. As a child surrounded by a world of gangs, drugs and crime, he chose the light New migrants face fear and loneliness. A town on the Great Plains has a storied support network 12/24/2023 11:37am • FORT MORGAN, Colo. (AP) ��� Magdalena Simon's only consolation after immigration officers handcuffed and led her husband away was the contents of his wallet, a few bills. The hopes that had pushed her to trudge thousands of miles from Guatemala in 2019, her son���s small frame clutched to her chest, A school reunion for Albert Brooks and Rob Reiner 12/24/2023 10:06am • ▶ Watch Video: Rob Reiner and Albert Brooks Sixty years ago Rob Reiner and Albert Brooks met at Beverly Hills High School in a drama class. Recently they returned. "This is the first time both of us have been back since we graduated," said Reiner."Over a certai Migrants cross U.S. border in record numbers 12/24/2023 09:31am • ▶ Watch Video: 10,000 migrants crossed the southern border with Mexico in one day Eagle Pass, Texas ��� By 6:30 a.m., there were scores of migrants, including parents carrying young children and babies, between a seemingly endless line of razor wire and the Rio Grande, pleading with Te All the things Taylor Swift made us care about this year 12/24/2023 07:00am • (CNN) ��� Every year seems to be Taylor Swift���s year. Since the early stages of her career, Swift has consistently held the news cycle in the palm of her hands ��� making headlines for everything from her romantic interests to the sale of her masters and the resulting rereleases. And yet 202