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Rescuers rushed into flames to save nursing home residents after deadly explosion 12/24/2025 04:24pm • BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — Rescuers braved shooting flames, falling debris and the threat of more explosions to evacuate dozens of nursing home residents after a blast ripped through a Pennsylvania facility, killing a resident and an employee, and setting off a frantic search of the wreckage. Officials s Two Iowa National Guard members killed in Syria return home on Christmas Eve 12/24/2025 04:05pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The remains of two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert were welcomed back to Des Moines on Wednesday, marking a solemn Christmas Eve for their grieving families. Several loved ones approached the caskets carrying Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25 DC police officer seriously injured in crash while helping driver of broken-down vehicle 12/24/2025 03:03pm • A police officer is seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle near South Capitol Street on Tuesday night, according to D.C. police. It happened at around 10:10 p.m. when the officer was helping a motorist whose vehicle broke down in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 695, according to a ne Two injured in Anne Arundel County shooting by immigration officer 12/24/2025 03:02pm • Two people were injured in a shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on Wednesday morning. A spokesperson with the Anne Arundel Police Department confirmed with WTOP the shooting took place around 11 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of West Court. Zelenskyy says he's open to creating demilitarized zone in Ukraine's industrial heartland 12/24/2025 02:20pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia’s war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces. Eritrean man accused of people-smuggling is extradited to the Netherlands 12/24/2025 02:14pm • AMSTERDAM (AP) — An Eritrean man alleged to be a people-smuggling kingpin was extradited Wednesday to the Netherlands by the United Arab Emirates, paving the way for trial in a Dutch court. The 41-year-old Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam had been on an international wanted list since 2021 after fleein A blast in Gaza wounds a soldier and Israel accuses Hamas of ceasefire violation 12/24/2025 01:39pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — An explosive device detonated in Gaza on Wednesday, injuring one Israeli soldier and prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. It was the latest incident to threaten the tenuous truce that has held since Oct. 10 as each side accuses the other of vi Fenerbahce president detained in Istanbul drug investigation after positive narcotics test 12/24/2025 01:00pm • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The president of Fenerbahce, one of Turkey’s leading sports clubs, was taken into custody in Istanbul on Wednesday as part of a widening drug investigation that has ensnared prominent entertainment and media figures, state media reported. Sadettin Saran, a dual citizen of T Explosion in Moscow kills 3 people. Official says Ukrainian intelligence was behind it 12/24/2025 12:14pm • An explosion in Moscow on Wednesday killed three people, including two police officers, Russian investigators said, days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far away. An official from Ukraine’s military intelligence, known as GUR, told The Associated Press that the attack had been c South African police continue arrests after mass shooting at a pub 12/24/2025 12:10pm • Johannesburg (AP) — Police in South Africa on Wednesday said they had arrested 11 people, including many suspected of being illegal miners, and were seeking a potential connection to Sunday's shooting at a pub that killed 10 people. In search for illegal miners in the area, police and Sibanye-Stil These 5 stories defined the DC-area in 2025 12/24/2025 11:35am • This year has been full of twists and turbulent moments, none that surprised the D.C. area more than the deadly aviation disaster in January. From the federal law enforcement surge that threatened the nation’s capital’s already limited autonomy to the government shutdown that saw hundred 1 killed in early morning crash in Prince William County that closed portions of I-66 12/24/2025 11:12am • One person is dead after a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 66 in Prince William County, Virginia, Wednesday morning. The crash happened before 5:20 a.m. in the eastbound lanes at the 48-mile marker, according to Virginia State Police. The person who was killed has not been publicly identified. Turkey recovers black boxes from jet crash that killed top Libyan military officials 12/24/2025 11:02am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Search teams in Turkey on Wednesday recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from a jet crash that killed eight people, including western Libya’s military chief, while efforts to retrieve the victims' remains were still underway, Turkey's interior minister said Six dead and a family left reeling after Mexican Navy medical flight crashes in Texas 12/24/2025 09:35am • Air traffic controllers lost communication for about 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane carrying a young medical patient and seven others before it crashed off the Texas coast in thick fog, killing at least six people, Mexico's government said Tuesday. The plane was working with a nonprofit Pro-Russian hackers claim cyberattack on French postal service 12/24/2025 06:47am • PARIS (AP) — A pro-Russian hacking group claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack that halted package deliveries by France’s national postal service just days before Christmas, prosecutors said Wednesday. After the claim by the cybercrime group known as Noname057, French intelligence agenc