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Today in History: December 2, first permanent artificial heart implanted 12/02/2025 04:10am • Today is Tuesday, Dec. 2, the 336th day of 2025. There are 29 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 2, 1982, in the first operation of its kind, doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center implanted a permanent artificial heart in the chest of Barney Clark, a retired dentist who liv Virginia bill would ban law enforcement from wearing masks 12/01/2025 11:07pm • Most state and federal law enforcement officers would be banned from wearing masks as part of a proposed plan to increase transparency and boost the public's trust in law enforcement. Ahead of the next Virginia General Assembly session, Del. Michael Jones has introduced legislation that would cra Trump tries to dial up Republican votes on eve of US House special election in Tennessee 12/01/2025 11:06pm • FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) ��� A Tennessee congressional seat that President Donald Trump and Republicans have previously won with ease became the unlikely epicenter of the fight for Congress on Monday, as House Speaker Mike Johnson headlined rallies and former Vice President Al Gore and Rep. Alexandria O 'It���s just heart wrenching': Locals pay respects at makeshift memorial for fallen National Guard member 12/01/2025 10:20pm • Flowers, flags, military challenge coins and stuffed animals were just some of the items that have left outside of the makeshift memorial honoring Specialist Sarah Beckstrom in Downtown D.C. The memorial is outside the Farragut West Metro station, where police say the 20-year-old, along with fell A California family was about to cut the cake when gunfire erupted at a toddler's birthday party 12/01/2025 09:11pm • STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) ��� Family members were getting ready to cut the cake at a toddler's birthday party when the gunfire started inside a banquet hall packed with relatives and friends over the weekend in California. ���I actually thought it was my balloons popping. It was gunshots," said Patrice USA Gymnastics and Olympic sports watchdog failed to stop coach's sexual abuse, lawsuits allege 12/01/2025 08:06pm • IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) ��� Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport���s oversight bodies, alleging they failed to stop Sean Gardner from preying on girls despite repeated complaints about the coach's behavior. The lawsuits alleg Son of drug kingpin ���El Chapo��� pleads guilty in US drug trafficking case in a plea deal 12/01/2025 08:01pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� One of the sons of notorious Mexican drug kingpin ���El Chapo��� pleaded guilty on Monday to U.S. drug trafficking charges, months after his brother entered a plea deal. Known locally in Mexico as the ���Chapitos��� ��� or ���little Chapos��� ��� Joaqu��n Guzm��n L��pez and brother Luigi Mangione fights to exclude evidence from his trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare's CEO 12/01/2025 07:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Luigi Mangione watched stoically in court Monday as prosecutors played surveillance videos showing the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a New York City sidewalk last year and Mangione���s arrest five days later at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania. The videos, including Gangs launch large-scale attack in Haiti's central region as hundreds flee gunfire and burning homes 12/01/2025 06:12pm • SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) ��� Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti���s central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as they set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness. Police made emergency calls for backup, asserting that 50% of the Artibonite region had fallen National Guard member shot in DC has shown positive signs, West Virginia governor says 12/01/2025 05:54pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last week in a brazen daytime attack in Washington, D.C., remains in serious condition but showed positive signs by giving a thumbs-up that he could hear a nurse���s question and wiggling his toes, Gov. Patrick Morrisey sa DC police have been patrolling with National Guard. How long will it last? 12/01/2025 05:45pm • D.C. police have started patrolling with the National Guard, a change in the relationship between local and federal officials in the aftermath of last week's shooting that killed one guard member and left another critically injured. In some instances, officers have already started working direct 2 conservative operatives get probation for robocalls to discourage Black Detroit voters in 2020 12/01/2025 05:36pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Two conservative political operatives were sentenced to probation Monday for a scheme to discourage Black Detroit voters from voting by mail in the 2020 presidential election, the last court hearing in a multistate effort to blast thousands of robocalls. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman Suspect walking on crutches helps group steal car in Anne Arundel County, police say 12/01/2025 03:50pm • There's a search underway in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for three carjacking suspects, one of whom got a driver to stop by walking in front of his vehicle using crutches, according to police. The carjacking happened Friday around 1:20 a.m. in the 500 block of Brock Bridge Road, near Laurel, a Schumer says three of his New York offices were targeted with bomb threats 12/01/2025 03:17pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the ���2020 election was rigged.��� Schumer said in a statement that local law enforcement received bomb threats referencin Baltimore landlords found liable for hiring a sex offender who set tenants on fire 12/01/2025 01:55pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Landlords in Baltimore are being held liable for hiring a convicted sex offender with a violent criminal record who then attacked two tenants and set them on fire, with a jury awarding the victims $21.5 million. The same man murdered a tech CEO just days after attacking April Hurl