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Kansas' Melvin Council Jr. named AP men's college basketball player of the week 12/16/2025 12:03pm • The Associated Press national player of the week in men���s college basketball for Week 6 of the season: Melvin Council Jr., No. 17 Kansas The 6-foot-4 senior stepped up with a huge game that helped Kansas edge N.C. State in overtime on the road, posting career highs of 36 points and nine 3-pointers Indiana's Curt Cignetti named the AP coach of the year in college football, first to win honor back-to-back 12/16/2025 11:56am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Indiana's Curt Cignetti named the AP coach of the year in college football, first to win honor back-to-back. Sudan tops global humanitarian crisis watchlist for third year as devastating war grips the country 12/16/2025 11:53am • CAIRO (AP) ��� Sudan topped a watchlist of global humanitarian crises released Tuesday by an international aid group for the third year in a row as a devastating war grips the northeastern African country. The International Rescue Committee said Sudan was at the top of its annual Emergency Watchlist Court battle begins over California's new congressional map designed to favor Democrats 12/16/2025 11:52am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The fight over California's new congressional map designed to help Democrats flip a string of U.S. House seats kicked off in court Monday, where a panel of federal judges is considering whether the rejiggered districts approved by voters last month can be used in elections. The US-Audiobooks-Top-10 12/16/2025 11:51am • Audible best-sellers for the week ending December 12: Nonfiction 1. The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins, narrated by the author (Audible Studios) 2. 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 3. Atomic Habitsby James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio) 4. Nobody���s The Queen of Disco: Donna Summer is posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame 12/16/2025 11:49am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� There are giants, and then there is Donna Summer. The Queen of Disco and then some, known for such timeless tunes as ���Love to Love You Baby,��� ���I Feel Love,��� ���Bad Girls,��� ���Dim All the Lights,��� ���On the Radio��� and ���She Works Hard for the Money,��� has been posthu theScore Bet Promo Code WTOP: Claim $100 Bonus for Knicks-Spurs NBA Cup Final 12/16/2025 11:40am • 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 New customers who register with��theScore Bet promo code WTOP can score bonus bets for the NBA Cup Championship game tonight be 11 firefighters and 2 other people injured after North Carolina house fire and explosion 12/16/2025 11:32am • SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) ��� Eleven firefighters and two other people were injured in a house fire explosion in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, officials said. Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell said firefighters did not have life-threatening injuries but were getting treated for contusions, concus McIlroy and Scheffler lead Golf Channel Games as golf revives the silly season 12/16/2025 11:32am • It turns out there's still a place for what amounts to the ���silly season��� in golf. The Skins Game returned under a slightly different format ��� held on Black Friday instead of the weekend after Thanksgiving, and a reverse purse that added to the stakes. It wasn't as must-see as when it began in Lithuania arrests 21 in alleged cigarette smuggling ring using weather balloons from Belarus 12/16/2025 11:26am • VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) ��� Lithuanian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested 21 people allegedly connected to a criminal network that smuggled cigarettes using specially equipped weather balloons from Russia-allied Belarus which have violated the Baltic country's airspace in recent weeks. Inves Russia names German broadcaster Deutsche Welle as 'undesirable organization' 12/16/2025 11:23am • Russian authorities on Tuesday named German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle as an ���undesirable organization,��� effectively outlawing its operation in the country. Under Russian law, involvement with an ���undesirable organization,��� including sharing its content, is a criminal offense. Deutsch Adolis Garc��a finalizes $10M, 1-year contract with Phillies, expected to play right field 12/16/2025 11:22am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) ��� Outfielder Adolis Garc��a and the Philadelphia Phillies finalized a $10 million, one-year contract on Tuesday. The 32-year-old is expected to start in right field for the Phillies in place of Nick Castellanos, who has held the spot for four seasons. Garcia had career bests in h Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they will withdraw from seized city in eastern Congo 12/16/2025 11:22am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Rwanda-backed M23 rebels said Tuesday they will withdraw from Uvira, the strategic city in eastern Congo seized last week, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S.-mediated peace deal. Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance, which includes M23, said th Mexico gears up for 2026 World Cup with friendlies against Panama, Bolivia, and Iceland 12/16/2025 11:22am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Mexico has arranged friendlies against Panama, Bolivia, and Iceland in the new year to build up for the 2026 World Cup. The Mexicans, who have ended 2025 mired in a six-game winless streak, visit Panama at Rommel Fern��ndez Stadium on Jan. 22, and three days later visit Bolivia Howard Stern's new SiriusXM deal: How he plans to 'have it all' 12/16/2025 11:19am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Howard Stern will spend another three years on SiriusXM, telling listeners Tuesday that he's ���figured out a way to have it all.��� And reps confirmed that he's not trolling us again like he did back in August when he brought on Andy Cohen as a fake replacement host. This time, he