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Love, Humphries-Armbruster, Meyers Taylor lead US World Cup bobsled team headed into Olympic year 09/20/2025 07:09pm • World champion Kaysha Love, three-time Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries-Armbruster and five-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor were named to the U.S. World Cup bobsled team Saturday, as the Americans began shaping their roster for this winter's Milan-Cortina Games. Also making the team: a t California bans most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations 09/20/2025 06:15pm • California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and swiftly denounced by Trump administration officials. The ban is a After cuts to food stamps, Trump administration ends government's annual report on hunger in America 09/20/2025 06:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration is ending the federal government's annual report on hunger in America, stating that it had become ���overly politicized��� and ���rife with inaccuracies.��� The decision comes two and a half months after President Donald Trump signed legislation sharpl WTOP reflections: Staffers and listeners look back on the work of Jeff Clabaugh 09/20/2025 03:49pm • WTOP staffers, past and present, as well as listeners, remember business reporter Jeff Clabaugh, who died Thursday night at age 63. He was known for delivering money news twice an hour on WTOP���s airwaves and writing short-to-the-point stories for the website. Staffers reflect on their coll Estonia says 3 Russian fighter jets entered its airspace in 'brazen' incursion 09/19/2025 10:59pm • Estonia summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter aircraft entered its airspace without permission Friday and stayed there for 12 minutes, the Foreign Ministry said. It happened just over a week after NATO planes downed Russian drones over Poland and heightened fears that th The Latest: Trump overhauls H-1B visa for high-skilled workers and adds new $100,000 annual fee 09/19/2025 09:13pm • President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will require a new annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, among other changes to the program for highly skilled foreign workers. H-1B visas are meant to bring the best and brightest foreigners for high-skilled jobs that tech compan Trump says US has carried out another fatal strike targeting alleged drug-smuggling boat 09/19/2025 08:46pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump said Friday the U.S. military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month. Trump in a social media posting said the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel ���affiliated with a Designated Terro Lawyers for Spanish-language journalist in ICE custody fear deportation after unfavorable ruling 09/19/2025 07:05pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Lawyers for a Spanish-language journalist who has been in immigration detention in Georgia since June said Friday they're worried his deportation could be imminent after an appeals panel reopened an old immigration case against him and ordered him sent back to El Salvador. Local pol Senate rejects competing bills to fund government, increasing risk of shutdown on Oct. 1 09/19/2025 06:45pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date. Leaders of the two parties sought to blame the other side for the standoff. Trump says he and Xi will meet in South Korea in coming weeks and he'll later go to China 09/19/2025 05:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place at the end of October in South Korea and will visit China in the ���early part of next year,��� following a lengthy phone call between the two on Friday. In a Truth Social p Judge blocks USDA from collecting data about SNAP applicants in 21 states 09/19/2025 04:44pm • A judge has temporarily barred the federal government from collecting personal information about residents enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 21 states and Washington, D.C. U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in California issued the temporary restraining order against the Macron hopes his recognition of a Palestinian state will be a landmark contribution to Mideast peace 09/19/2025 12:24pm • PARIS (AP) ��� A moment of truth: that���s how French President Emmanuel Macron sees the recognition of a Palestinian state by France and other Western nations, with the hope to make it a landmark step in his push for peace in the Middle East as the devastating war in Gaza continues. Weakened and un For many US Jews, High Holy Days will be a mix of anxiety and determination 09/19/2025 11:37am • For Jewish congregations across the United States, the upcoming High Holy Days ��� always a compelling mix of celebration and repentance ��� will be more charged than usual this year. Rabbis say many of their congregants are worried by a surge of antisemitism, including two deadly attacks in the spr The Latest: Democrats introduce bill to protect free speech following Kimmel suspension 09/18/2025 08:27pm • AYLESBURY, England (AP) ��� After ABC suspended comedian Jimmy Kimmel���s late-night show following a threat from the head of the Federal Communications Commission, congressional Democrats have denounced the Trump administration���s threats against political critics and unveiled a bill that would bo 3 members of federal control board in Puerto Rico sue Trump and others for illegal firings 09/18/2025 08:25pm • SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ��� Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico���s finances, who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Thursday alleging their firings were illegal. The lawsuit was filed against T