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Duke's unlikely ACC title season set to end against Arizona State in Sun Bowl 12/30/2025 10:58am • EL PASO, Texas (AP) ��� Duke's unlikely Atlantic Coast Conference title didn't get the Blue Devils anywhere close to the College Football Playoff berth that's supposed to go to every Power Four conference champion. The consolation prize comes Wednesday in the Sun Bowl against Arizona State, a team j Meet Paddy Cake, an adorable Pittie mix 12/30/2025 10:50am • Paddy Cake is a bundle of love and curiosity! She is a Pittie mix, who has had a tough beginning to her life. Paddy Cake was abandoned in an empty apartment and rescued by Humane Law Enforcement. She was then adopted but later surrendered because her owner was facing homelessness. The Humane Resc After quiet off-year elections, Democrats renew worries about Trump interfering in the midterms 12/30/2025 10:46am • If history is a guide, Republicans stand a good chance of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2026. They have just a slim majority in the chamber, and the incumbent party usually gives up seats in midterm elections. President Donald Trump, whose loss of the House halfway through his fi List of aid groups working in Gaza that Israel is suspending 12/30/2025 10:38am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel says it's suspending humanitarian organizations that have failed to meet its new rules to vet international groups working in the Gaza Strip. They include some of the world's most prominent and outspoken aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders. The suspension Tales from the tour: Scheffler shows no mercy, even in a friendly match with his caddie 12/30/2025 10:37am • Rory McIlroy has such a good relationship with Scottie Scheffler that he couldn't resist the dig. ���Get a chef,��� McIlroy said at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. That's where Scheffler made his season debut, a month late due to his decision to try to cut ravioli with a wine glass while making Ch How Prince William County schools' data leak impacts students, families 12/30/2025 10:34am • Prince William County schools mistakenly shared student and parent personal information with Hazel Health, a third-party partner of the school division. The division on Dec. 19 sent a notification to the affected families notifying them that on Dec. 16 Hazel Health inadvertently sent a welcome text Ohio State's Caleb Downs is quite the CFP veteran heading into the quarterfinals against Miami 12/30/2025 10:33am • ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ��� Caleb Downs had to be reminded that he was getting ready for his sixth College Football Playoff game, which probably won't be rare a decade from now but is unique in just the second year of the expanded 12-team format. The Ohio State safety smiled at the thought and figured Italy's Parliament approves 2026 budget with deficit-cutting measures 12/30/2025 10:29am • ROME (AP) ��� Italy���s Parliament on Tuesday approved the government���s 2026 budget, including deficit-cutting measures. The budget of about 22 billion euros ($25.9 billion) aims to reduce the 2026 deficit to 2.8% of gross domestic product, down from the previously targeted 3%, in line with the E Betr Promo Code WTOP: Claim $210 Bonus for NBA, College Football Bowl Picks 12/30/2025 10:29am • 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 using the Betr promo code WTOP to redeem a DFS bonus to use on the four game NBA slate Tuesday, or get a head start on Mi European and Canadian leaders discuss US-led peace efforts in Russia-Ukraine war 12/30/2025 10:22am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Leaders from Europe and Canada held talks Tuesday on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv sparred over Russian claims, denied by Ukraine, of a mass drone attack on a lakeside residence used by President Vladimir Today in Sports - Buffalo Bills snap longest current non-playoff streak in North American pro sports 12/30/2025 10:10am • Dec. 31 1961 ��� Paul Hornung, on leave from the Army, scores 19 points to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 37-0 win over the New York Giants for their seventh NFL championship. Green Bay���s Bart Starr throws three touchdown passes in the first title game ever played in Green Bay. 1962 ��� The Ameri Batter Jamie Smith left out of England T20 World Cup squad but injured pacer Jofra Archer included 12/30/2025 10:06am • LONDON (AP) ��� Batter Jamie Smith was left out of England's provisional squad for the Twenty20 World Cup on Tuesday, but pacer Jofra Archer was included despite nursing a side strain. Smith has been short of his form in test cricket for England in the Ashes Series, which Australia leads 3-1. The bi AP Top 25 Schedule 12/30/2025 10:05am • All Times EST Tuesday, Dec. 30 Alamo Bowl at San Antonio: TCU (8-4) vs. No. 16 Southern Cal (9-3), 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31 Cotton Bowl at Arlington, Texas: No. 3 Ohio St. (12-1) vs. No. 10 Miami (11-2), 7:30 p.m. ReliaQuest Bowl at Tampa, Fla.: No. 13 Vanderbilt (10-2) vs. Iowa (8-4), Noon Citrus Father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin dies after house fire, mother critically injured 12/30/2025 10:03am • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� The father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the North Carolina home where they lived, officials said Monday. Firefighters arrived Sunday night at a two-story home near Stanley that was mostly engulfe NCAA Women's Div I Volleyball Tournament Glance 12/30/2025 10:00am • All Times EST First Round Thursday, December 4 Miami (Fla.) 3, Tulsa 1 Kansas 3, High Point 0 Baylor 3, Arkansas St. 2 Purdue 3, Wright St. 0 Colorado 3, American 0 Indiana 3, Toledo 0 Wisconsin 3, Eastern Ill. 0 North Carolina 3, UTEP 1 Arizona St. 3, Coppin St. 0 Utah St. 3, Tennessee 2 UNI 3, Uta