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NASCAR's Greg Biffle killed in plane crash. Here are some other athletes who died in the air 12/19/2025 08:37am • Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle was believed to be on the plane that crashed outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, on Thursday, killing all seven people aboard. He joins a somber roll of athletes who died in plane or helicopter crashes, including fellow race car drivers Alan Kulwicki and Davey All Trump gave an unusually partisan White House address. Should networks have given him the TV time? 12/19/2025 08:25am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� When Donald Trump delivered the first White House address of his second presidency Wednesday night, all major U.S. networks beamed his image and voice onto their airwaves, cable feeds and online platforms. Americans ended up watching the Republican president stand in the Diplomatic Egypt vows to prevent escalation between Lebanon and Israel amid tensions over Hezbollah 12/19/2025 08:23am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Egypt is doing all it can to prevent further escalation between Lebanon and Israel amid tension between the two neighbors over the disarmament process of the militant Hezbollah group, the country���s prime minister said Friday during a visit to the Lebanese capital. Egypt, which sign Chinese tennis player banned 12 years for match-fixing spree 12/19/2025 08:19am • LONDON (AP) ��� Chinese tennis player Pang Renlong has been banned for 12 years and fined $110,000 for a match-fixing spree involving 22 matches in a five-month period. The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Friday that the 25-year-old Pang admitted to fixing five of his own matches in lower Veteran Miroslav Koubek appointed Czech national team coach ahead of World Cup qualifying playoffs 12/19/2025 08:17am • PRAGUE (AP) ��� Veteran coach Miroslav Koubek is taking over the Czech national team for the final stage of World Cup qualifying, the country's soccer association said Friday. The 74-year-old Koubek replaces Ivan Ha��ek, who was fired in October after a humiliating 2-1 loss to Faeroe Islands in Wor Nodding off is dangerous. Some animals have evolved extreme ways to sleep in precarious environments 12/19/2025 08:01am • Every animal with a brain needs sleep ��� and even a few without a brain do, too. Humans sleep, birds sleep, whales sleep and even jellyfish sleep. Sleep is universal ���even though it���s actually very risky,��� said Paul-Antoine Libourel, a researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon i EU leaders agree on 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine after a plan to use Russian assets unravels 12/19/2025 07:11am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years, but they failed to bridge differences with Belgium that would have allowed them to use frozen Russian assets to raise the funds Bulgarians protest widespread graft and call for a fair election 12/19/2025 07:09am • SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) ��� Tens of thousands of people on Thursday filled the streets of Bulgaria's capital and other major cities in the country, calling for a fair election and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption. The demonstrations in Sofia and elsewhere came af Winnebago: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot 12/19/2025 07:09am • EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) ��� EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) ��� Winnebago Industries Inc. (WGO) on Friday reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $5.5 million. The Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company said it had profit of 19 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, were 38 c Health care rises sharply as Americans' priority for the government to address following a year of cuts: AP-NORC poll 12/19/2025 07:00am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Health care rises sharply as Americans' priority for the government to address following a year of cuts: AP-NORC poll. Gaza has averted the spread of famine but the situation remains critical, experts say 12/19/2025 07:00am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� Gaza has averted the spread of famine but the situation remains critical, experts say. Romanian court sentences US rapper Wiz Khalifa to 9 months for drug possession 12/19/2025 06:50am • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ��� American rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced by a court in Romania on Thursday to nine months in jail for drug possession, more than a year after he took part in a music festival in the Eastern European country. Khalifa was stopped by Romanian police in July 2024 after alleg Singapore to punish scammers with up to 24 strokes of the cane from Dec 30 12/19/2025 06:45am • KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) ��� Singapore���s government said Friday that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes from Dec. 30, under changes to criminal law to deter surging fraud cases. The changes, passed by Parliament last month, strengthen penalties that already include imprison UK government acknowledges it is investigating cyber incident after media reports 12/19/2025 06:44am • LONDON (AP) ��� The British government said Friday it is investigating a ���cyber incident��� following news reports that hackers linked to China have gained access to thousands of confidential documents held by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Trade Minister Chris Bryant said the i PSG president Al-Khela��fi acquitted again by Swiss court in case with ex-FIFA official Valcke 12/19/2025 06:26am • GENEVA (AP) ��� Switzerland���s supreme court upheld the acquittal of Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khela��fi in the final appeals stage of a case that alleged wrongdoing linked to former FIFA secretary general J��r��me Valcke and the awarding of World Cup television rights. In a separate