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US, French troops in Romania hold NATO military drills 02/09/2023 09:00am • CAPU MIDIA, Romania (AP) — U.S. and French troops that are part of a NATO battlegroup in Romania held a military exercise on Thursday to test the 30-nation alliance’s eastern flank defenses, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine nears its one-year anniversary. The joint combat Ukraine building suffers deadliest civilian attack in months 01/15/2023 02:45pm • DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) — The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 30 Sunday, the national emergencies service reported as rescue workers scrambled to reach survivors in the rubble. Emergency crews worked through the f Departing WTOP staffers share highlights of their time at the station 12/26/2022 01:00am • Tuning in to 103.5 WTOP-FM is second nature to millions of people who drive in the D.C. area. Whether you're driving to work, going home, picking up your kids from school, or going into the city for a night-out, the voice of WTOP has been the welcomed back seat driver who actually knows how to get y Steelers and Raiders meet amid bittersweet goodbye to Harris 12/22/2022 06:32pm • LAS VEGAS (6-8) at PITTSBURGH (6-8) Saturday, 8:15 p.m. EST, NFL Network FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NFL LINE: Steelers by 2 1/2. AGAINST THE SPREAD: Raiders 7-7; Pittsburgh 7-6-1 SERIES RECORD: Raiders lead 14-10 LAST MEETING: Raiders beat the Steelers 26-17 on Sept. 19, 2021. LAST WEEK: Raiders beat Patrio Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing appears in US court 12/12/2022 07:48pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. The ex Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing now in American custody 12/12/2022 05:17am • WASHINGTON (AP) — A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken into U.S. custody and will face federal charges in Washington, the Justice Department said Sunday. T Greek Orthodox church at World Trade Center reopens at last 12/07/2022 11:40am • NEW YORK (AP) — More than two decades after a tiny Greek Orthodox church in lower Manhattan was destroyed by the falling south tower of the World Trade Center, that church's far grander replacement opened to the public this week in an elevated park overlooking the rebuilt trade center's memorial p Son's coach ID'd as Florida mom's killer decades after her murder 12/04/2022 07:00am • ▶ Watch Video: The Betrayal of Linda Slaten On Sept. 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, 15 and his brother Time, 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police and told their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill wher Captain of burning dive boat pleads not guilty in 34 deaths 11/11/2022 02:07pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dive boat captain pleaded not guilty in federal court for a second time to manslaughter in the fiery deaths of 34 people trapped below deck on his burning vessel three years ago off Southern California. A federal grand jury issued a new indictment last month alleging that capt Dive boat captain pleads not guilty in fiery deaths of 34 11/10/2022 11:32pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dive boat captain pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court for a second time to manslaughter in the fiery deaths of 34 people trapped below deck on his burning vessel three years ago off the Southern California coast. A federal grand jury issued a new indictment last month Amnesty: Fuel suppliers aiding Myanmar attacks on civilians 11/03/2022 09:21am • BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International is urging suppliers of aviation fuel to Myanmar to suspend their shipments to prevent the military from using them to conduct an increasing number of air attacks on civilian targets. In a report released Thursday, the London-based rights group documented divers States struggle with pushback after wave of policing reforms 11/01/2022 01:33am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The national reckoning on race and policing that followed the death of George Floyd -- with a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck -- spurred a torrent of state laws aimed at fixing the police. More than two years later, that torrent has slowed. Some of the initial Iran also barred from Nobel ceremony, after Russia, Belarus 10/28/2022 06:43am • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The ambassador of Iran also been excluded from this year’s Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of “the serious and escalating situation” in the country, the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards said Friday. Earlier this week, the envoys Russia, Belarus ambassadors barred from Nobel ceremony 10/25/2022 04:41pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus have been excluded from this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of the war in Ukraine. The Nobel Foundation, a private foundation which administers the prestigious awards, normally invites ambassadors stationed in Sweden to the a Grand jury: New indictment in California dive boat tragedy 10/18/2022 07:37pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal grant jury issued a new indictment Tuesday against a dive boat captain, alleging that he acted with gross negligence when a 2019 fire aboard his vessel led to the deaths of 34 people off the Southern California coast. The new indictment comes more than a month after a