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IRS increases 2026 business mileage rate by 2.5 cents 12/30/2025 12:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The standard mileage rate for the business use of a car, truck, van or other vehicle will increase by 2.5 cents in 2026. The IRS announced Monday that beginning Jan. 1, the standard mileage rate for a qualifying vehicle will be 72.5 cents per mile, up 2.5 cents from 2025. The r ESPN BET Promo Code WTOP: Grab $100 Bonus for NBA, College Football Bowl Games 12/30/2025 12:36pm • 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 Sign up with the ESPN BET promo code WTOP to claim a bonus for the NBA, college football and college basketball games Tuesday nig Scalley steps in as Utah's coach for the Las Vegas Bowl after Whittingham's departure 12/30/2025 12:36pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Morgan Scalley is getting a one-game head start as the coach at his alma mater. Scalley expected to take the reins next season, but then Kyle Whittingham became Michigan's coach on Friday. That meant Scalley suddenly found himself in charge of No. 15 Utah (10-2) for Wednesday's La Judge blocks White House's attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid 12/30/2025 12:33pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days before funds at the bureau would have likely run out and the consumer finance agency would have no money to pay its employees. Judge Surge in federal officers in Minnesota focuses on alleged fraud at day care centers 12/30/2025 12:28pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A surge of federal officers in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents. President Donald Trump has previously linked his administration���s immigration crackdown against Minnesota���s large Somali community to a series of fraud case France grants citizenship to George and Amal Clooney and their twins Ella and Alexander 12/30/2025 12:22pm • PARIS (AP) ��� Call them Monsieur and Madame Clooney. France���s government says that George Clooney, his wife Amal and their twins Ella and Alexander have been awarded French citizenship. The naturalizations of the Kentucky-born star of the ���Ocean's��� series of heist movies and his family were Washington Monument to have projection show to commemorate America's 250th birthday 12/30/2025 12:20pm • To commemorate America's 250th birthday in 2026, the Washington Monument will have a projection show and an illumination of a 250-foot birthday candle beginning on New Year's Eve. It is part of a six-night event, from Dec. 31 through Jan. 5, that will illuminate the monument with projections of Arctic blast brings snow and wind to the Great Lakes and Northeast 12/30/2025 12:20pm • A surge of Arctic air brought strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after a bomb cyclone barreling across the Midwest left tens of thousands of customers without power. Blustery winds were expected to add to the chill, with low temperatur U.S. sanctions 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over drone and missile trade 12/30/2025 12:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. imposed sanctions on 10 people and firms from Iran and Venezuela over allegedly contributing to Iran's drone trade and ballistics program which the Trump administration says threatens the U.S. and its allies in the Middle East. The Treasury Department said the latest me N��zet-S��guin���s path to the Vienna New Year���s concert began when he replaced banned conductor in 2022 12/30/2025 12:03pm • Yannick N��zet-S��guin���s path to the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year���s Day concert started when he replaced a banned Russian conductor at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2022 with the help of a pianist who traveled trans-Atlantic after practicing all night in a Berlin hotel bar. Just four days before Liverpool parts ways with set-piece coach Aaron Briggs after team's erratic season 12/30/2025 11:54am • LIVERPOOL, England (AP) ��� Premier League defending champion Liverpool parted ways with its set-piece coach Aaron Briggs on Tuesday. Liverpool said in a brief statement on its website that Briggs ���departed his role��� after joining as a member of coach Arne Slot's backroom staff in July last year What's inside Mexico's Popocat��petl? Scientists obtain first 3D images of the whole volcano 12/30/2025 11:50am • POPOCAT��PETL VOLCANO, Mexico (AP) ��� In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocat��petl volcano, one of the world���s most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five years, th 'Trump���s EPA' in 2025: A fossil fuel-friendly approach to deregulation 12/30/2025 11:42am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting federal limits on air and water pollution and promoting fossil fuels, a metamorphosis that clashes with the agency���s historic mission to protect human health and the environm Iran's president says answer to attack would be harsh in apparent response to Trump warning 12/30/2025 11:36am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ��� Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday said his country���s answer to an attack would be harsh, which appeared to be in response to a warning by U.S. President Donald Trump over reconstruction of Iran���s nuclear program. ���Answer of Islamic Republic of Iran to any cru The year's first meteor shower and supermoon clash in January skies 12/30/2025 11:31am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The year's first supermoon and meteor shower will sync up in January skies, but the light from one may dim the other. The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks Friday night into Saturday morning, according to the American Meteor Society. In dark skies during the peak, skygazers typically