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Today in History: December 28, U.S. Afghan war formally ends 12/28/2025 04:10am • Today is Sunday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2025. There are three days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 28, 2014, the U.S. war in Afghanistan came to a formal end after 13 years with a quiet flag-lowering ceremony in Kabul, marking the transition of fighting from U.S.-led combat troo Chilly Gaza braces for more winter rain and word of any progress in ceasefire talks 12/27/2025 05:00pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) ��� Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza ���s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents on Saturday for another round of winter rain. Some families in the central town of Deir al-Balah said they had been living in tents for about two years, or Missing Kentucky girl found in Montgomery County after 2 month search 12/27/2025 03:32pm • A 13-year-old Kentucky girl who had been missing since October was found in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Saturday. Montgomery County police said in a release Saturday afternoon that Wynter Wagoner, 13, was located in a Silver Spring home in the 12000 block of Dalewood Drive. The Rockcastle Brazilian judge puts coup plot convicts under house arrest after former police commander flees 12/27/2025 02:13pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� A Brazilian judge on Saturday issued house arrest orders for 10 people who have been convicted and sentenced for participating in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after he lost the 2022 election. The decision by Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes came j US Park Police officer hurt after being struck on BW Parkway 12/27/2025 12:13pm • A U.S. Park Police officer sustained critical injuries after being hit by a car early Saturday on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The incident, which was reported after 3 a.m., took place on the northbound lanes of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near Route 410, which led to a temporary closur 5 people shot near DC's Walter E. Washington Convention Center 12/27/2025 10:42am • Five men were injured in a shooting near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest D.C. Friday night. The incident occurred around 9 p.m. near the intersection of 5th and N streets. Police said that when officers arrived at the scene, three men were found conscious and breathing but A massive crash on a highway in Japan kills 2 people and injures 26 as the holiday season starts 12/27/2025 04:33am • TOKYO (AP) ��� A massive crash involving 67 vehicles in snowy weather killed two people and injured 26 on an expressway in Japan late on Friday as the country kicked off its end-of-year holiday season. The Gunma prefectural highway police said Saturday that the pileup on the Kan-etsu Expressway star Today in History: December 27, Benazir Bhutto assassinated 12/27/2025 04:10am • Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2025. There are four days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 27, 2007, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a shooting and bomb attack that killed at least 20 people in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Also on this Man accused of 1996 Tupac Shakur killing seeks to suppress evidence 12/26/2025 09:26pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� The attorneys for the man accused of killing rap icon Tupac Shakur in 1996 are pushing to suppress evidence obtained in what they claim was an ���unlawful nighttime search.��� Las Vegas criminal defense attorneys Robert Draskovich and William Brown filed a motion this week on beha At least 15 injured in a knife and chemical attack at a factory in Japan 12/26/2025 08:44pm • TOKYO (AP) ��� A man was arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with what was believed to be bleach at a tire factory in central Japan on Friday, officials said. There was no immediate explanation of his motive. Eight people were taken to hospitals after being stabbed by the California's intense winter storms turned some roads into rivers of mud 12/26/2025 06:54pm • WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (AP) ��� Powerful winter storms brought the wettest Christmas season to Southern California in years, sending mud and debris sliding and half-filling homes with mud. There was still a risk of more flash flooding and mudslides Friday despite slackening rain around Los Angeles, the Man dead, 2 police officers hurt in shooting during custody exchange in North Carolina 12/26/2025 06:51pm • MINT HILL, N.C. (AP) ��� A man was shot and killed Friday after firing at police in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, during a child custody exchange, authorities said. Two Mint Hill police officers were also wounded in the shooting Mint Hill Police said in a statement on social media. Mint Hil 2 killed, 6 injured in Fairfax Co. car crash on Christmas 12/26/2025 04:52pm • Two people have died, and six others were injured after a car crash on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Christmas. Virginia State Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that happened on Interstate 495 around 10:40 p.m. on Thursday. In an email, a VSP spokesperson said A Palestinian man kills 2 in car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel and injures 2 others 12/26/2025 04:20pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� A Palestinian attacker rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel on Friday afternoon, killing both, police said. The Israeli military swiftly launched an operation in the assailant's hometown in the occupied West Bank. The attack started in the no Altitude mask on dead Norwegian biathlon competitor wasn't part of federation's training program 12/26/2025 03:09pm • The performance-enhancing altitude mask that Olympic hopeful Sivert Guttorm Bakken was wearing when he was found dead this week ���is not part of the Norwegian Biathlon Association���s organized training programs,��� the federation said Friday. Bakken, 27, was found dead in his hotel room in the Alp