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US military to stop shooting pigs and goats as a way to train medics for the battlefield 12/19/2025 03:37pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries. The prohibition on ���live fire��� training that includes anima Royals reunite with former All-Star pitcher Matt Strahm in a trade with the Phillies 12/19/2025 03:37pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The Kansas City Royals reunited with veteran left-hander Matt Strahm on Friday, acquiring the former All-Star from the Philadelphia Phillies in a trade for right-hander Jonathan Bowlan in a move that each club hopes will improve their bullpen. The 34-year-old Strahm was dra Seahawks' Hall suspended 1 game without pay for unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct 12/19/2025 03:36pm • RENTON, Wash. (AP) ��� Seattle Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall has been suspended one game without pay for an act of unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct in a 38-37 overtime win against the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday night. The NFL announced the suspension on Friday. Hall, 24, stepped Ecuadorian police arrest 2 suspects in the armed attack that killed soccer player Pineida 12/19/2025 03:36pm • QUITO (AP) ��� Ecuadorian police have arrested two suspects in the killing of soccer player Mario Pineida, who was shot in an attack this week that also killed his partner and wounded his mother, underscoring the rising violence in the Andean nation. The 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender a Rubio is hopeful about Russia-Ukraine and Gaza peace efforts but clear about the challenges 12/19/2025 03:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Secretary of State Marco Rubio was hopeful but clear about the challenges facing the Trump administration's Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts and defended increasing U.S. military pressure on Venezuela during a marathon end-of-year news conference Friday. In a freewhe Photos of Trump's name being added to the Kennedy Center 12/19/2025 03:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Kennedy Center has added President Donald Trump���s name to the building after its board, handpicked by Trump, voted to rename it The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. 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Register here to make your first prediction on Jake Paul vs Anthony Joshua Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down 12/19/2025 03:21pm • One of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughters said she experienced an ���absurdly invasive��� pat-down Thursday at an airport security checkpoint and suggested her father would limit or eliminate the Transportation Security Administration if it was under his authority. Evita Duffy-Alfo Judge nixes conviction of 1 of 2 men found guilty of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay 12/19/2025 03:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Judge nixes conviction of 1 of 2 men found guilty of killing Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay. Warm weather and low snowpack bedevil Western ski resorts 12/19/2025 03:16pm • EDWARDS, Colo. (AP) ��� Ski resorts are struggling to open runs, walk-through ice palaces can���t be built, and the owner of a horse stable hopes that her customers will be satisfied with riding wagons instead of sleighs under majestic Rocky Mountain peaks. It���s just been too warm in the West with Suicide car bomber, militants attack military post in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 soldiers 12/19/2025 03:15pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� A suicide car bomber and three gunmen attacked a military post near a village in northwest Pakistan on Friday, triggering an hourlong gunbattle that killed four soldiers and wounded at least 15 civilians, including women and children, authorities said. 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