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Getting to 'no': Europe's leaders find a way to speak with one voice against Trump 01/25/2026 07:34am • LONDON (AP) ��� No more fawning praise. No more polite workarounds and old-style diplomacy. And no one is calling Donald Trump ���daddy��� now. European leaders who scrambled for a year to figure out how to deal with an emboldened American president in his second term edged closer to saying ���no,� Trump threatens Canada with a 100% tariff over its China trade deal and escalates feud with Carney 01/24/2026 03:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if America's northern neighbor went ahead with its China trade deal, intensifying a feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney, a rising voice in the West's pushback to Trump's new world Collins, Mills take different tacks on ICE's sweeping enforcement action in Maine 01/23/2026 08:14pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Maine���s leading Republican and Democratic officials, now engaged in one of the nation's highest profile Senate races, offered starkly different comments on Friday as a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents racked up their arrest totals. Democratic Gov. Janet Oklahoma hires Roger Denny as athletic director to replace the retiring Joe Castiglione 01/23/2026 06:31pm • Oklahoma hired Roger Denny as athletic director on Friday, tapping the Illinois deputy AD to replace the retiring Joe Castiglione. The Sooners have won 26 national championships under Castiglione, whose tenure began in 1998. He also led the program���s recent move to the Southeastern Conference and Vietnam leader To Lam consolidates power with reelection as country targets 10% growth 01/23/2026 08:17am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) ��� To Lam was reelected Friday as general secretary of Vietnam���s ruling Communist Party and appears poised to become the country���s most powerful figure in decades, with analysts expecting him to assume the presidency in a break from Vietnam���s tradition of collective leader Today in History: January 23, the Baker Massacre in Montana 01/23/2026 04:10am • Today is Friday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2026. There are 342 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 23, 1870, approximately 200 Piegan Blackfoot tribe members, mostly women, children and older adults, were killed by U.S. Army troops under the command of Major Eugene Mortimer Baker in Mont 2028 Olympics could bring big wins for Los Angeles labor unions 01/23/2026 12:08am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� As Los Angeles ramps up for the 2028 Olympics, local unions are drawing inspiration from the Paris Games when hotel workers went on strike a day before opening ceremonies. The French workers waved signs at the five-star hotel where members of the International Olympic Committee Maine governor questions ���secret arrests,' sheriff says ICE targeted one of his recruits 01/22/2026 07:49pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� Maine's Democratic governor challenged federal immigration officials Thursday to provide warrants, real-time arrest numbers and basic information about who is being detained in a sweeping enforcement operation in her state, saying residents have been left largely in the dark Venezuela opens debate on an oil sector overhaul as Trump seeks role for US firms 01/22/2026 07:36pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) ��� Venezuela���s legislature advanced a bill on Thursday to loosen state control over the country's vast oil sector in the first major overhaul since the late socialist leader Hugo Ch��vez nationalized parts of the industry in 2007. The legislation would formally break decad Understanding Maternity Hospital Packages and Costs 01/22/2026 07:00pm • Pregnancy and childbirth should be the happiest time of a parent's life. Unfortunately, the financial burden of giving birth can interrupt that joy. "My husband lost his job during my second pregnancy. I did not apply for a gap exception (for insurance coverage) in time, so they would not reimburse 9 Jobs That Still Offer Traditional Pensions 01/22/2026 07:00pm • For decades, workers could count on their employers to continue sending them checks even after they retired. A traditional pension -- also known as a defined benefit plan -- was the norm in many workplaces, but rising costs have made them a relative rarity nowadays. "The risk just became too much, I More DC office space to be converted to housing 01/22/2026 06:20pm • A short walk from D.C.'s Dupont Circle Metro station, former office space is being converted into housing, and Mayor Muriel Bowser said the District is leading that trend. At the groundbreaking for The Geneva, billed by the Bowser administration as the largest office-to-residential conversion pro House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding 01/22/2026 05:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The House passed this year's final batch of spending bills on Thursday as lawmakers, still smarting from last fall's record 43-day shutdown, worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government. The four bills total about $1.2 trillion in spending an WTOP's Snowzilla 2026 Contest Rules 01/22/2026 04:56pm • WTOP���s Snowzilla 2026 Contest Official Rules �� NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. �� BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, EACH ENTRANT AGREES TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES. �� Eligibility: The WTOP Snowzilla 2026 Contes Rhode Island may ditch Mr. Potato Head license plates after Hasbro moves to Boston 01/22/2026 02:54pm • PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) ��� It's been no small potatoes that Rhode Islanders have been able to choose the image of Mr. Potato Head as a specialty license plate for decades. Yet with Hasbro's decision to move its headquarters from the smallest state in the U.S. to Boston, two lawmakers say it's time to