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Want a free cup of joe? Get free coffee on National Coffee Day 09/29/2025 06:03am • Monday is National Coffee Day, and many coffee shops and eateries are offering free cups to celebrate. The fun starts days early at Paris Baguette. Rewards members can get a free medium hot or iced brewed coffee with any purchase Sept. 27-29. Dunkin Rewards members are invited to pick up a fre A raptor with no qualms about eating its opponents wins New Zealand's annual bird election 09/29/2025 03:05am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand ’s annual bird election is contested by cheeky parrots, sweet songbirds and cute, puffball robins. This year’s winner was a mysterious falcon that wouldn’t think twice about eating them. Kārearea, the Indigenous Māori name for the New Zealand falc Things to know about federal law enforcement activity in Chicago, Portland, Memphis 09/28/2025 08:10pm • MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Armed federal agents patrolled Chicago’s downtown streets on Sunday and President Donald Trump called up 200 National Guard troops for deployment in Portland, Oregon, a move strongly opposed by the governor that immediately prompted a lawsuit saying Trump overstepped his au UN imposes 'snapback' sanctions on a hungrier, poorer and more anxious Iran 09/27/2025 09:18pm • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need to survive and worried about their futures. The sanctions wil What to know about the new suspect identified in Texas’ infamous yogurt shop killings 09/27/2025 03:43pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — For years, the unsolved killings of four teenage girls in an Austin yogurt shop in 1991 haunted investigators in the Texas capital. Two men were charged and convicted, only to have DNA evidence exonerate them, leaving the brutal deaths -- in which the girls were bound, gagged DC-area high schools increase police and security presence at football games 09/27/2025 10:52am • At high school football stadiums around the D.C. area, fans are seeing a significantly increased police presence at games. This is after several high-profile incidents during and after games. At Bowie High School in Prince George's County Friday night when Bowie played against rival Wise High Sch DNA evidence links a dead man to the 1991 killings of 4 girls at Texas yogurt shop 09/26/2025 09:08pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police named a dead man Friday as a new suspect in the 1991 unsolved killings of four teenage girls at an Austin yogurt shop, saying DNA evidence led to a “significant breakthrough” in the brutal crime that has haunted Texas’ capital and stumped investigators for decades Police say DNA evidence has linked a dead man to the killings of 4 girls at a Texas yogurt shop in 1991 09/26/2025 07:31pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police say DNA evidence has linked a dead man to the killings of 4 girls at a Texas yogurt shop in 1991. Jury convicts Michigan veterinarian of theft for refusing to return dog to homeless man 09/26/2025 06:30pm • A veterinarian who refused to return a dog to a homeless man after finding the ailing pit bull mix tied to a truck was convicted of theft Friday in western Michigan. Amanda Hergenreder took the dog on a two-hour drive to her clinic, where she cleared up a severe urinary tract infection and removed a Hurricane Helene hit the reset button on one town’s goal of becoming an outdoor tourism mecca 09/26/2025 10:37am • OLD FORT, N.C. (AP) — Morning mist is still burning off the surrounding mountains when they appear: Small groups of helmeted riders on one-wheeled, skateboard-like contraptions, navigating the pitched streets, past the 30-foot granite Arrowhead Monument on the town square. They are among the 400 o Fed's favored inflation gauge accelerates slightly in August 09/26/2025 09:45am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge accelerated slightly in August from a year earlier. The Commerce Department reported Friday that its personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index was up 2.7% in August from a year earlier, a tick higher from a 2.6% year-over- A soccer team from a fishing village off the Baltic Sea is close to a fairytale league title 09/26/2025 09:07am • In a remote fishing village beside the shore of the Baltic Sea, one of the most remarkable achievements in European soccer is close to being realized. “Make the impossible possible” is one of the mantras found on the walls and the PowerPoint slides at tiny Swedish club Mjällby. And that’s exa Israeli strikes on Yemen's capital kill at least 9 people and injure scores, the Houthi rebels say 09/26/2025 08:31am • ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Friday that at least nine people were killed by Israeli strikes on the country's rebel-held capital of Sanaa the previous day, the latest in an increase in exchanges between Israel and the Iranian-backed rebels over the war in Gaza. The strikes on Th ACLU files lawsuit against Department of Homeland Security on behalf of DC residents 09/26/2025 12:21am • The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. is suing the Department of Homeland Security, its director and other federal agencies charging that federal agents are illegally and indiscriminately arresting people in D.C. who are perceived to be Latino. The ACLU said in a 36-page lawsuit that the arr One of Haiti's leaders says his country is at war with gangs and asks the world for help 09/25/2025 08:39pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of Haiti’s leaders on Thursday asked the world to help his troubled Caribbean country fight what he characterized as a war against relentless gang violence and widespread hunger. Laurent Saint-Cyr, head of Haiti’s transitional presidential council, addressed th