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Swiss investigators believe sparkling candles atop wine bottles ignited fatal bar fire 01/02/2026 07:58pm • CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year's Eve revelers. Authorities planned to look into whether sound-da Montgomery Co. police charge 147 with DUI during holiday initiative, with more planned 01/02/2026 05:25pm • Montgomery County police charged 147 people with driving under the influence during the first six weeks of their annual holiday alcohol task force initiative. According to data that runs from Thanksgiving through Dec. 27, members of the task force conducted 1,300 traffic stops. From Dec. 24-27 al Why crime in Fairfax Co. fell across several categories in 2025 01/02/2026 05:03pm • Crime fell across several categories in Fairfax County last year, Police Chief Kevin Davis told WTOP, touting the agency’s use of emerging technology, recruitment, retention efforts and focus on road safety. In an interview with WTOP on Friday, Davis said homicides fell 15% in 2025, compared wi DC police sergeant arrested in Maryland road rage incident 01/02/2026 04:39pm • Maryland State Police have arrested a D.C. police sergeant who allegedly pulled out a gun during a road rage incident in Anne Arundel County. Police said Sgt. Kaila Crews, 29, of Annapolis, Maryland, brandished a crowbar and then a firearm during a road rage incident on Dec. 18 in the westbound l Federal judge dismisses Louisville police reform agreement spurred by Breonna Taylor's death 01/02/2026 04:36pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the department withdrew its support of the plan earlier this year. The Justice Department announced in May it was canceling proposed con Patriots face Dolphins as legal cases for Diggs, Barmore cast cloud over pursuit of AFC's top seed 01/02/2026 04:25pm • FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The New England Patriots' regular-season finale will be the biggest game of their season. It has been preceded by a challenging week off the field. The Patriots (13-3) enter Sunday’s matchup with the Miami Dolphins (7-9) having secured their first playoff berth since 202 Grandmother and grandson burn to death in Gaza tent while cooking; Jolie visits Rafah crossing 01/02/2026 04:19pm • DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire while cooking, as thousands of Palestinians endure colder weather in makeshift housing. The nylon tent in Yarmouk caught fire Thursday night while a meal was being prepare Today in History: December 31, Edison demonstrates incandescent lights in Menlo Park 01/02/2026 02:23pm • Today is Wednesday, Dec. 31, the 365th and final day of 2025. This is New Year’s Eve. Today in history: On Dec. 31, 1879, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electric incandescent lights for the public by illuminating some 100 bulbs in and around his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Also on Anthony Joshua’s driver charged after deadly crash in Nigeria 01/02/2026 01:33pm • LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The driver in a deadly car crash that injured heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and killed his two friends in Nigeria was charged, the police said on Friday. Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged with dangerous and reckless driving in southwestern Ogun state following Mo 2 men rescued from 9th-floor Bethesda hotel ledge after armed suspect breaks in 01/02/2026 01:24pm • Two men, who were stuck on a Bethesda, Maryland, hotel ledge during an attempted armed robbery, were rescued by police early in the morning of New Year's Day. Two men who were stuck on the ledge of a ninth-floor hotel room at the Embassy Suites Hotel on Democracy Boulevard were brought down aroun Pakistan sentences journalists, YouTubers and ex-military officers to life over inciting violence 01/02/2026 08:23am • ISLAMABAD (AP) — A court in Pakistan’s capital sentenced seven people, including three journalists, two YouTubers and two retired army officers, to life imprisonment on Friday, after convicting them of inciting violence during riots in 2023 and spreading hatred against state institutions. An ant Police in Finland arrest 2 members of cargo ship's crew in connection with damage to undersea cable 01/02/2026 08:20am • HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish authorities have arrested two members of a cargo ship's crew in connection with damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland that occurred earlier this week between the capitals of Finland and Estonia, police said Thursday. The damage was discovered At least 7 reported killed during widening protests in Iran sparked by ailing economy 01/01/2026 07:38pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran's ailing economy spread Thursday into the Islamic Republic's rural provinces, with at least seven people being killed in the first fatalities reported among security forces and protesters, authorities said. The deaths may About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year's celebration 01/01/2026 05:51pm • CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said. Authorities did not immediately have an exact Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves hospital and returns to jail in capital Brasilia 01/01/2026 05:50pm • BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left a hospital in capital Brasilia on Thursday, a week after he underwent a double hernia surgery. A car took the embattled ex-leader back to the federal police headquarters where he is serving his 27-year prison sentence for leadi