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Election campaign in Hungary heats up as Orbán challenger Péter Magyar gains rural support 11/17/2025 03:05am • BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — With Hungary's parliamentary elections still five months away, the country is already immersed in an intense political campaign between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his challenger, Péter Magyar, that promises to be the biggest challenge of the nationalist leader's car The Best Crypto Credit Cards 11/16/2025 07:00pm • There's no shortage of credit card rewards programs available and a wide variety of perks to choose from, including cash back, airline miles and retail rewards. In recent years, cryptocurrency reward cards have filled a niche for those interested in earning digital currency from their card swipes. W Ford Motor shows off new high-tech HQ. It has a 'crown jewel' showroom and room for 4,000 employees 11/16/2025 11:44am • DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co.’s new headquarters, the carmaker's first central office switch since Dwight Eisenhower was president, is double the size of its old one with room for twice as many employees. The new HQ has seven restaurants as part of a 160,000-square-foot (14,864 square-me Aficionados fret as Trump moves to make pasta great again 11/15/2025 02:14am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Steel: 50%. Copper: 50%. Cars: up to 25%. But an even bigger Trump-era levy looms: 107 % on Italian pasta. Mamma mia. It started with the U.S. Commerce Department launching what it says was a routine antidumping review, based on allegations Italian pasta makers sold product in German Baumkuchen 'tree cake' survived a disaster and world wars to become a Japanese favorite 11/14/2025 11:10pm • NINOSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the treat that has thrived in its new homeland. Today, the confectionery known as “tree cake” because of the resemblance to Officials in North Carolina city vow to resist looming federal immigration crackdown 11/14/2025 09:05pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Officials and community leaders opposing a pending federal immigration crackdown in North Carolina’s largest city characterized it Friday as an invasion and urged Charlotte residents to protest peacefully and record agents' actions from a distance. “We are living in the Walmart CEO Doug McMillon announces his surprise retirement at age 59 11/14/2025 06:15pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who turned America's largest retailer into a tech-powered giant and spearheaded a period of robust sales growth since becoming chief executive in 2014, plans to retire early next year, the company said Friday in a surprise announcement. John Furner, 51, ‘Huge difference’: DC businesses feel impact of National Zoo's closure — and reopening 11/14/2025 04:36pm • The District's Cleveland Park neighborhood lives and breathes around the Smithsonian National Zoo and its pandas. But for the past 40-odd days, businesses around the zoo have faced a diminishing wave of customers due to the zoo's closure during the federal government shutdown. In recent ye From Disney to Broadway: Meg Donnelly's 'Moulin Rouge!' debut fulfills theater kid dream 11/14/2025 01:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — When she was still just a child, Meg Donnelly gave off a serious theater kid vibe. At 5, her favorite musical role wasn't the sunny “Annie.” It was Mimi from “Rent,” the struggling erotic dancer who is also a heroin addict. Donnelly grew up to become a film and TV star thr Shoplifter swipes $9,700 in baseball and Pokemon cards from Tom Brady shop 11/14/2025 12:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Police were searching for a shoplifter who stole about $9,700 in baseball and Pokemon cards from a CardVault by Tom Brady store in lower Manhattan. The New York Police Department asked for the public's help this week in identifying a man with a Yankees cap caught on surveillance fo How the funny and feminist fashion in 'Palm Royale' further the storytelling 11/14/2025 10:46am • NEW YORK (AP) — When Kristen Wiig steps out of a vintage Rolls-Royce in the opening scene of Season 2 of “Palm Royale,” she’s sporting a tall, yellow, fringed hat, gold platform sandals and sunny bell bottoms, with fabric petals that sway with every determined step. It’s the first clue tha What's the best supermarket for Thanksgiving shopping in DC area? Ranking quality, price, convenience 11/14/2025 10:16am • Anyone who has ever prepared a Thanksgiving meal knows it's a labor of love — and expensive. As grocery prices rise, and with Nov. 27 approaching, WTOP wanted to learn where shoppers could find the best quality and value as they plan, purchase and prepare for their Thanksgiving Day feast. "T Different needs but similar fears arise in communities on both ends of Missouri's redistricting 11/14/2025 08:10am • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — To grasp the effects of the rush to redraw America’s congressional districts before the 2026 elections, consider one historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and the small town of Boonville, population 7,800. The 18th and Vine community is known Illegal bets in the Dominican Republic come under scrutiny after MLB pitchers arrested 11/14/2025 06:00am • SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Baseball and bets go hand-in-hand in the Dominican Republic, where professional athletes, musicians and even legislators go public with their wagers. But for every legal bet in the Caribbean country, officials say there are countless more illegal ones. It� Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell concedes reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson 11/13/2025 08:40pm • SEATTLE (AP) — First-term Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell conceded his reelection fight to progressive activist Katie Wilson on Thursday, handing another victory to leftist Democrats around the country frustrated with unaffordability, homelessness, public safety and the actions of President Donald Tru