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Explosion and fire at cookie factory in Greece kills 5 01/26/2026 12:40pm • TRIKALA, Greece (AP) ��� An explosion and fire at a cookie factory in central Greece killed five female night shift workers and left seven injured, authorities said Monday. The injured, including a firefighter, were hospitalized after the blast at the Violanta biscuit plant near the city of Trikala, Host Italy announces 196-member team for Milan Cortina Olympics, including Fontana and Brignone 01/26/2026 12:36pm • ROME (AP) ��� Host Italy named its biggest ever Winter Olympics team with 196 athletes set to compete at the Milan Cortina Games starting next week. There are 103 men and 93 women in the team announced Monday. That breaks the country���s record of 184 named for the 2006 Games in Turin ��� the previo Music Review: Joyce Manor delivers nostalgia, polished and punk, in 'I Used to Go to This Bar' 01/26/2026 12:25pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� In his seminal 1981 book ���Simulacra and Simulation,��� cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard argued that Disneyland is emblematic of reality���s collapse into perpetual imitation. ���Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas a Britain's Conservative Party loses another high-profile lawmaker to hard-right Reform 01/26/2026 12:16pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman, an anti-immigration Conservative lawmaker, on Monday became the latest politician from the party to defect to hard-right rival party Reform UK. Braverman, who was fired from her job as interior minister in 2023 after repeatedly divergin SEC sets record with 10 ranked teams, a 1st in 50-year history of women's AP Top 25; UConn, UCLA 1-2 01/26/2026 12:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Southeastern Conference set a record with 10 teams in The Associated Press women's Top 25 basketball poll released Monday. Georgia entered at No. 23 after its win over then-No. 11 Kentucky to give the conference the most teams ever in a single week in the 50-year history of the The 2025 Tony Awards set June 7 ceremony date at Radio City Music Hall 01/26/2026 12:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Fans of Broadway, circle this date: This season's Tony Awards will take place on June 7 at its familiar home of Radio City Music Hall. Producers of the show announced the date and location Monday. Nominations will be announced May 5. Radio City can seat 6,000 people and has been t SEC sets record with 10 ranked teams, a first in 50-year history of women's AP Top 25; UConn, UCLA are 1-2 01/26/2026 12:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� SEC sets record with 10 ranked teams, a first in 50-year history of women's AP Top 25; UConn, UCLA are 1-2. Wales captain calls Six Nations 'a welcome distraction' amid off-field turmoil 01/26/2026 11:57am • EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) ��� After Wales rugby players canceled their threat of strike action, national captain Dewi Lake called the upcoming Six Nations ���a welcome distraction.��� The Welsh players' association last week gave the Wales Rugby Union a deadline of Feb. 6 ��� the day before Wales pla Trump says he had a 'very good' call with Gov. Walz about Minneapolis shooting and they're now on a 'similar wavelength' 01/26/2026 11:54am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Trump says he had a 'very good' call with Gov. Walz about Minneapolis shooting and they're now on a 'similar wavelength.' Which places in the DC region got the most snow? 01/26/2026 11:46am • The transition from snow to sleet began earlier than expected Sunday in D.C., but the entire area still saw significant snow accumulation, ranging from 5 inches to nearly a foot. Sleet continued to accumulate Sunday afternoon on top of the snow that was already on the ground. So was your n He left the US for an internship. Trump's travel ban made it impossible to return 01/26/2026 11:46am • The first time Patrick Thaw saw his University of Michigan friends together since sophomore year ended was bittersweet. They were starting a new semester in Ann Arbor, while he was FaceTiming in from Singapore, stranded half a world away. One day last June he was interviewing to renew his U.S. stude Balkan truck drivers block cargo border crossing in protest of EU entry rules 01/26/2026 11:40am • ODZAK, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ��� Truck drivers from Balkan countries outside the European Union blocked cargo border crossings in the region Monday to protest the recent enforcement of EU entry regulations that they say seriously undermine their work. Long columns of trucks formed at freight borde Columbia taps University of Wisconsin chancellor to lead school after 2 years of turmoil 01/26/2026 11:24am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Columbia University has named Jennifer Mnookin, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as its next president as it tries to move forward from two years of turmoil that included campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and President Donald Trump's subsequent campaig Former candidate Perry Johnson joins crowded Republican field running for governor of Michigan 01/26/2026 11:21am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� A former GOP gubernatorial candidate who once tried to unseat Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is seeking the office again, joining a crowded field of Republicans running in the battleground state. Oakland County businessman Perry Johnson announced his second bid for governor Investigators will detail causes of the midair collision over Washington, DC, and recommend changes 01/26/2026 11:19am • So many things went wrong last Jan. 29 to contribute to the deadliest plane crash on American soil since 2001 that the National Transportation Safety Board isn't likely to identify a single cause of the collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people