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Spanish soccer league offers reward of 50 euros for tips to ID bars illegally broadcasting games 01/28/2026 12:53pm • MADRID (AP) ��� The Spanish league is stepping up its fight against audio-visual fraud by offering 50 euros ($59) for each verified tip on the establishments broadcasting games without proper permission, it said Wednesday. Bars, restaurants, betting places and similar establishments need to subscrib British leader's trip to China is a balancing act between trade, national security and Trump 01/28/2026 12:34pm • BEIJING (AP) ��� U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that his country doesn't have to choose between relations with the United States and China as he started a four-day trip to China aimed at repairing ties and expanding opportunities for British companies in the world���s second-larg Movie Review: In the Oscar-nominated 'Arco,' an apocalypse kids can get behind 01/28/2026 12:27pm • In all the dystopian visions of the future that the movies have trotted out over the last few decades, the one that sticks the most, surprisingly, is ���WALL-E.��� That���s not just because of the chastening sight of an over-polluted Earth or those sedentary humans glued to their screens. It���s bec Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faces rising calls for her firing or impeachment 01/28/2026 12:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A groundswell of voices have come to the same conclusion: Kristi Noem must go. From Democratic Party leaders to the nation's leading advocacy organizations to even the most centrist lawmakers in Congress, the calls are mounting for the Homeland Security secretary to step aside af UPS looks to cut up to 30,000 jobs this year 01/28/2026 12:15pm • UPS is planning to cut up to 30,000 operational jobs this year as the package delivery company continues with its turnaround efforts and reducing the number of Amazon shipments that it handles. Last year, UPS started on a plan to reduce dependency on its largest customer, Amazon, and focus on higher Sergi L��pez on 'Sir��t': A journey that makes you look inward 01/28/2026 11:59am • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� ���Sir��t,��� Spain���s latest Oscar contender, follows Luis as he treks through the North African desert with his 12-year-old son and his dog to find his missing daughter. Blending the grit of ���Mad Max��� with the underground rave culture of the 1990s, the film is set against Black Knight becomes sole shareholder of Ligue 1 Lorient as part of multi-club ownership strategy 01/28/2026 11:58am • LORIENT, France (AP) ��� The French Ligue 1 club Lorient announced Wednesday that the Black Knight Football Club group had become its sole shareholder. The Black Knight consortium fronted by American businessman Bill Foley, which owns the Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL, acquired a minority ownershi Patrick Reed is leaving LIV Golf and plans to return to the PGA Tour in September 01/28/2026 11:56am • SAN DIEGO (AP) ��� Patrick Reed is leaving LIV Golf and plans to return to the PGA Tour in September. Al-Maliki is defiant after Trump threatens to withdraw US support for Iraq 01/28/2026 11:48am • BAGHDAD (AP) ��� Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed defiance Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw Washington���s support for Iraq if he returns to power. Al-Maliki, who was nominated last week by the country���s dominant political bloc to return to th Amazon to close most Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in days 01/28/2026 11:43am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amazon said this week that it was closing almost all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations within days as it narrows its focus on food delivery and its grocery chain, Whole Foods Market. Some of the shuttered stores will be converted into Whole Foods locations, the Seattle c South Korea's former first lady sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption 01/28/2026 11:40am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� The wife of South Korea���s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 months in prison for corruption, as her husband awaits a verdict on a high-stakes rebellion charge that could result in the death penalty or life imprisonment. Seoul Central Distri 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 WTOP Mystery Newsmaker Contest February 7 & 8 01/28/2026 11:36am • Listen to WTOP this Saturday and Sunday morning during the 8am hour for the WTOP Mystery Newsmaker Contest. We���ll play the voice of someone you���ve heard in the news this week on WTOP.�� Be the first caller at��855-885-1035��to correctly identify the mystery newsmaker and win��a four pack of tic Paxton sues another provider accused of illegally sending abortion-inducing pills to Texans 01/28/2026 11:34am • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has accused a Delaware nurse practitioner of prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents in what is now the second lawsuit the state has filed against an out-of-state provider over such medications. ���The day of reckoning for this radical out-of-state ab Local prosecutors launch a project to fight federal overreach in immigration enforcement surges 01/28/2026 11:33am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� A group of local prosecutors concerned about recent immigration enforcement operations launched a project Wednesday to strategize and seek accountability for what they consider federal overreach and unconstitutional behavior. The program is called Fight Against Federal Overreach