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Kalshi Promo Code WTOP: Claim $10 Sign Up Bonus for NBA, CBB Predictions This Weekend 01/30/2026 12:02pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Lock in your favorite sports predictions by redeeming the Kalshi promo code WTOP, which allows all new users to receive a guaran 'Each call is more challenging': DC Fire chief talks about snow days  01/30/2026 07:26am • It may have seemed like the D.C. area came to a standstill after the weekend snowstorm. But while most of us were warm and cozy at home from the time the first snowflake fell until our streets were plowed, the men and women of D.C. Fire and EMS, along with other first responders, were out in force. O'Connor wanted the challenge of coaching baseball in SEC, and he'll get one at Mississippi State 01/30/2026 06:00am • Brian O'Connor landed his first head coaching job at Virginia in 2004 and quickly turned a baseball program that had finished higher than fourth in the ACC just once during the previous 30 years into a perennial national contender. Twenty-two years later, the idea of him in a dugout wearing anything Melania Trump's documentary premieres at the Kennedy Center ahead of global release 01/29/2026 11:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump is capping her first year back as first lady with the global release of a documentary she produced about the 20 days leading up to husband Donald Trump’s return to the White House. A private person, Melania Trump remains a bit of a mystery to the public in her hus San Jose mayor, a frequent Newsom critic, jumps into the California governor's race 01/29/2026 03:35pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan on Thursday announced he's joining the crowded race for California governor, casting himself as a moderate Democrat with a track record of tackling some of the state's most persistent issues including homelessness and crime. Elected to lead Silic Alexander Volkanovski faces Diego Lopes in rematch at UFC 325 in Sydney 01/29/2026 12:59pm • SYDNEY (AP) — Diego Lopes seemed almost like an afterthought this week at UFC 325 media day. Some questions directed at featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski concerned whom he might fight next after facing Lopes on Sunday. The odds, however, suggest this might not be such an easy fight for Speed skater Brandon Kim takes 'different path' from Fairfax to 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan 01/29/2026 11:29am • When 24-year old Brandon Kim was growing up in Fairfax, Virginia, he first saw short-track speedskating on television, during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. "At the time the speed the athletes were going looked really exciting and fun, so I wanted to give it a shot," Kim told WTOP, during A pre-Olympic treat for the US women's bobsled and skeleton teams: They got their hair done 01/29/2026 06:00am • The U.S. Olympic women's bobsled and skeleton racers spent this week going through their final preparations in advance of arrivals this weekend at the Milan Cortina Games. They were running, lifting weights, strategizing, whatever they could to get ready. They also worked on their hair. Well, techni Trump facing growing cultural revolt against immigration crackdown 01/28/2026 10:09pm • NEW YORK (AP) — No longer confined to the partisans and activists, the fierce backlash against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has begun to break out across American culture, spanning the worlds of business, sports and entertainment. Bruce Springsteen released a new song Wednesday that slamm Democrats visit 5-year-old who was detained in Minneapolis, in a case that stirred anger over ICE 01/28/2026 09:25pm • DILLEY, Texas (AP) — Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett on Wednesday visited a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention center, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and ot Brooks Koepka gets a fresh start at a familiar place in Torrey Pines 01/28/2026 07:17pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — Torrey Pines looked plenty familiar to Brooks Koepka. The PGA Tour? Not so much. Koepka was playing the back nine on the South Course the day he arrived as a footnote in PGA Tour history as the first member to defect to LIV Golf and then be allowed to come back. He was asking abou NFL's turf guru has meticulous journey to prepare Levi's Stadium field for Super Bowl 01/28/2026 11:39am • SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Nick Pappas' process for preparing the Super Bowl field got underway long before the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots started getting ready for the 2025 season. The NFL's turf guru picked the sod farm that began growing the field for the game about 16 months ago It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain 01/28/2026 11:28am • HOUSTON (AP) — Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a toasty Florida peninsula and a powerful blizzard forecast that may strike the Atlantic coast. Deep cold is forecast to stick around With history already made, Jessie Diggins opens her final Olympic chapter with momentum 01/28/2026 04:59am • Win or lose, Jessie Diggins plans to celebrate her last Olympics. More than 40 friends and family are traveling to the Milan Cortina Winter Games to watch America’s most decorated cross-country skier chase Olympic glory one last time. The 34-year-old Minnesota native is retiring at the end of the Why Prince George's Co. schools announced several days of snow closings at once 01/28/2026 04:22am • Prince George's County schools announced Monday that classes would be canceled until until further notice as a result of the weekend snowstorm — a rare step of announcing several days' worth of closures at once. Typically after winter weather events, school divisions make decisions day by day,