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'We're going to be OK': Howard U. students navigate DC with National Guard and security checkpoints 08/18/2025 10:06pm • A lot has changed in the nation's capital since Howard University's Class of 2025 received their diplomas. As students start classes at the historically Black university this week, they will have to navigate the city with an extra police presence, National Guard patrols and security checkpoin What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape 08/18/2025 09:48pm • LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) ��� One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge ���Tuto��� Quiroga, galvanizing voters through promises of harsh austerity and a Democrats get police escorts to prevent a new redistricting walkout as California moves to retaliate 08/18/2025 09:09pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Texas Democrats who ended a walkout Monday found themselves shadowed by law enforcement officers to keep them from repeating the protest that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts and fulfill President Donald Trump's desire to reshape U.S. House maps. Re Takeaways from Trump's meeting with Zelenskyy and Europeans: Praise, security talks, more meetings 08/18/2025 08:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� During their second meeting in the Oval Office this year, President Donald Trump said the U.S. would be willing to support European efforts to police any peace deal in Ukraine, while its leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude and wore dressier clothes. And Vice Pres 2 dead, 3 wounded in shooting in southern West Virginia 08/18/2025 08:36pm • MOUNT CARBON, W.Va. (AP) ��� A shooting in southern West Virginia on Monday left two people dead including a suspected gunman, along with three others wounded, police said. Fayette County Sheriff Jess McMullen said the shooting happened in Mount Carbon. Police found the suspected gunman dead inside Kohberger's sexist, creepy behavior alarmed university faculty and students before Idaho murders 08/18/2025 08:13pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Bryan Kohberger developed a reputation for being sexist and creepy while attending a criminal justice program in the months before he killed four University of Idaho students in 2022, fellow grad students told investigators. His behavior was so problematic that one Washington 3 more GOP governors authorize deployment of National Guard troops as part of Trump show of force 08/18/2025 07:52pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Three more Republican governors authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington on Monday, part of President Donald Trump���s escalating show of force that he says is designed to crack down on crime and boost immigration enforcement in the nation���s capital. The 2 officers killed and a third is wounded in a Utah shooting, authorities say 08/18/2025 07:49pm • Two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance call were shot and killed in Utah, and a man was taken into custody after bystanders persuaded him to drop the gun, authorities said Monday. The officers were identified as Sgt. Lee Sorensen, 56, and Officer Eric Estrada, 31, of the Tremonton- Out of sight, out of earshot: Howard Co. schools continue cellphone restrictions for new school year 08/18/2025 06:58pm • From saving on school supplies to the impact of federal cuts, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series,�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. In an effort to curb distractions and improve sc Federal agent fires weapon during immigration stop in Southern California, officials say 08/18/2025 06:27pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� A federal agent fired at a moving vehicle in Southern California after the driver refused to roll down his window during an immigration stop and sped off, the Department of Homeland Security said. A DHS statement said the driver struck two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents 2nd Wyoming airman in a month is accused of manslaughter after a fatal shooting 08/18/2025 06:11pm • CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ��� A second airman in a month at a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming stands accused of involuntary manslaughter for a shooting death. F.E. Warren Air Force Base Airman First Class Jadan Orr, 20, remained jailed on Monday after he allegedly shot a man in a Cheyenne apartment early S Trump claims DC dining surge without sufficient evidence after his takeover of DC police 08/18/2025 05:55pm • President Donald Trump said Monday that since his announcement to take over the D.C. police department, people are now more comfortable going to dinner in the District. Restaurant reservation data doesn't yet support that. "People that haven't gone out to dinner in Washington, D.C. in two years, Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar drowns in a Utah reservoir 08/18/2025 05:30pm • Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar drowned Saturday in a Utah reservoir, police said. Herriman police said Mayar died at Blackridge Reservoir after going underwater about 35 yards from shore. Mayar, 22, was a graduate student who joined the Mavericks after playing two seasons for Summit League rival A look at Texas' redistricting walkout and California's response, by the numbers 08/18/2025 04:56pm • A walkout by Democratic legislators in Texas has ended and Republicans arranged to push a plan for redrawing the state's congressional districts through the GOP-controlled Legislature and give President Donald Trump a better political landscape. Democrats' boycott of daily sessions kept the House fr Arlington man charged in mother's death 08/18/2025 04:37pm • An Arlington County man has been charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed his mother inside an apartment in Virginia Square. Logan Chrisinger, 27, is being held at the Arlington County jail on murder and two other charges, according to an Arlington County Police Departm