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With 'Trump Accounts,' your baby could qualify for $1,000. Here's what to know 12/02/2025 05:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — When the children of wealthy households leave the nest, they often benefit from their parents' largesse in the form of a trust fund. Less affluent peers may receive nothing at all — or even be expected to support their families when they become adults. But what if all childr Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim 'Trump Accounts' 12/02/2025 05:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaires Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion Tuesday to provide 25 million American children 10 and under an incentive to claim the new investment accounts for children created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation. The historic gift has l DC Council votes unanimously to secure 'streateries' one day after new rules left businesses scrambling 12/02/2025 04:13pm • New rules governing outdoor dining spaces, or "streateries," in D.C. went into effect on Monday, just a day before the city's council voted unanimously on emergency legislation to protect them. The D.C. Council voted unanimously on Tuesday on an emergency measure proposed by Ward 6 Council member The Latest: Pope Leo ends first foreign trip with silent prayer at Beirut blast site, Mass at port 12/02/2025 12:38pm • Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the 218 victims of the blast on Aug. 4, 2020. The explosion tore through Beirut and did billions of dolla Federal prosecutors say Afghan national made bomb threat on TikTok video in Texas 12/02/2025 12:11pm • FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with making threats online after authorities said a video showing him threatening to build a bomb, conduct a suicide attack and kill Americans was posted to TikTok and other social media sites. The charge against Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, an A Russian skiers and snowboarders allowed by CAS to try to qualify for Winter Olympics 12/02/2025 09:51am • GENEVA (AP) — Russian skiers and snowboarders won a court ruling on Tuesday to apply as neutral athletes for qualification events to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics after nearly four years of being excluded during the war on Ukraine. Russian sports minister Mikhail Degtyaryov posted on social me Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip 12/02/2025 08:45am • BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he offered words of consolation to Lebanon’s people — including in the war-battered south — on the Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters 12/02/2025 03:02am • VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear powers put pressure on nonproliferation effor Ukrainian troops near the front doubt the proposed pact with Russia will bring lasting peace 12/02/2025 12:12am • DNIPROPETROVSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Moving between damp basements and muddy dugouts to fend off constant Russian attacks in the nearly 4-year-old war, exhausted Ukrainian soldiers say their motivation is fortified by knowing they're fighting for higher cause: the defense of their homeland. But a Live updates: Admiral who ordered follow-up strike on alleged drug-carrying boat to brief lawmakers 12/01/2025 09:45pm • U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Frank Bradley will provide a classified briefing to key lawmakers overseeing the military on Thursday as they investigate a U.S. military attack on a boat allegedly carrying drugs that included a second strike that killed any survivors. White House press secretary Karoline Lea Shooting of National Guard members prompts flurry of US immigration restrictions 12/01/2025 09:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Since last week's shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital by a suspect who is an Afghan national, the Trump administration announced a flurry of policies aimed at making it harder for some foreigners to enter or stay in the country. The administration sai Experts explain what the law says about killing survivors of a boat strike 12/01/2025 06:44pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military would have committed a crime if it killed the survivors of an attack on an alleged drug boat, legal experts say. It doesn’t matter whether the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels as the Trump administration asserts. Such a fatal second strike would 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 New York backs 3 new casinos, including at Mets stadium and a golf course Trump once ran 12/01/2025 05:48pm • NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is poised to get its first Vegas-style casinos, including one next to the home stadium of baseball’s New York Mets and another that could see a windfall for President Donald Trump. Three casino proposals were approved by a key state panel on Monday for lucrative gam GOP-led states settle lawsuit against federal government over checking citizenship status of voters 12/01/2025 04:59pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four Republican-led states agreed to settle lawsuits against the federal government over access to voters' citizenship data, ending a dispute that began with the Biden administration in advance of the 2024 presidential election. Officials in Florida, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio