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White House says admiral ordered follow-up strike on alleged drug boat, insists attack was lawful 12/01/2025 09:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Monday that a Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the law” when he ordered a second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a September U.S. military operation that has come under bipartisan scrutiny. White House press s A controversial infant Jesus is stolen from a Belgian Nativity scene 12/01/2025 12:51pm • BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities are mystified over a brazen theft over the weekend from a Christmas Nativity scene of an icon of infant Jesus Christ that had been widely scorned online. Snatched from his crib on the Grand Place in historic old Brussels between late Friday night or early Saturd Airbus inspects panels on ubiquitous A320 passenger jets as it wraps up quick software patch 12/01/2025 10:48am • LONDON (AP) — Airbus is inspecting panels on its bestselling A320 passenger jets after quality control problems surfaced, days after it reported that it was scrambling to fix a separate software problem affecting about 6,000 of the popular planes. The European planemaker said Monday that it "iden 'It feels so rewarding': Local business owner creates perfect gifts for loved ones 12/01/2025 04:18am • During this time of year, it’s a mad rush to find Christmas gifts. Many local artists and businesses have set up shop at the D.C. Holiday Market hoping to provide the perfect unique gift for a loved one. “The Downtown D.C. Holiday Market is absolutely my favorite event of the year. It has Laura Nolte and Kaysha Love continue hot starts to World Cup bobsled season 11/30/2025 11:25am • IGLS, Austria (AP) — Laura Nolte of Germany and Kaysha Love of the U.S. continued their sizzling starts to the World Cup bobsled season on Sunday. Nolte teamed with Deborah Levi to win a two-woman race, with Love and Sylvia Hoffman finishing second. Nolte and Love have medaled in all four women’ Shoppers spend billions on Black Friday to snag holiday deals, despite wider economic uncertainty 11/29/2025 05:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spending billions of dollars both in stores and online. Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce, said U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion o Love wins monobob World Cup gold for US, Lochner tops Friedrich again, luge races on Olympic track 11/29/2025 10:37am • IGLS, Austria (AP) — Reigning world champion Kaysha Love of the U.S. got the fourth women’s monobob World Cup win of her career on Saturday, rallying in the second run of the two-heat race for the victory. Love was second behind Australia’s Bree Walker going into the final run at the Igls-Inns College football mascots just as good at keeping their identities secret as firing up a crowd 11/28/2025 11:36am • EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Ross Ramsey enjoys spending time with fellow alums at Michigan State football tailgates. These aren’t just any old former Spartans, though. They were Sparty himself – something few knew when Ramsey and his pals donned the muscular mascot suit two decades ago. “Once Lake effect snow piles up in Great Lakes region, impacting Thanksgiving travel 11/27/2025 04:27pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Residents of the Great Lakes region are in for a snowy Thanksgiving, as a weather system continues to drop precipitation across the area, particularly in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Snowfall that began Wednesday persisted Thursday with winds and snow bands out of the no Former AP photographer's vintage images of Ireland capture a world before it disappeared 11/27/2025 08:34am • BERLIN (AP) — Rare photographs of Ireland from 1963 show a world about to disappear, a country before it took its first steps toward modernity. Black and white images captured by a young German photographer, Diether Endlicher — who later spent four decades covering the Olympics and major global Russian athletes to compete under national flag at judo events starting this weekend 11/27/2025 07:22am • The International Judo Federation (IJF) has decided to “reinstate full national representation” of Russian athletes at its competitions starting this weekend, it said on Thursday, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine. The IJF executive committee voted to allow Russian athletes to compete under th What to get the stargazer in your life for the holidays in 2025 11/27/2025 06:50am • For my annual WTOP “Gift Ideas for Stargazers,” I thought I would get this year’s suggestions out to coincide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the stars. Internet shopping and quick s Black Friday arrives with solid momentum despite tariffs and economic uncertainty 11/27/2025 12:45am • NEW YORK (AP) — Black Friday may no longer be the retail bacchanalia of years past, when the promise of one-time bargains caused people to leave Thanksgiving tables for malls where some customers got into fistfights over toys or TVs. But the event still has enough enthusiasts to make it the bigges Great Lakes region preparing for bad weather as lake-effect snowfall ingredients begin mixing 11/26/2025 04:59pm • DETROIT (AP) — It's that time of year — again — when cold air sweeps across the Great Lakes region, dropping huge amounts of lake-effect snow from Michigan's Upper Peninsula into Western New York. Snow has already started falling Wednesday in and around Houghton, Michigan, and is expected to c Sports betting roundup: NFL playoffs get closer as favorites go 9-3 straight up 11/24/2025 12:31pm • The college football season is nearing its end, and the NFL is getting closer to the playoffs. Last weekend didn’t have as many big college games as in recent weeks, while the NFL had another eventful Sunday of action. Here’s a look at how things played out from a sports betting perspective: Tre