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Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe 01/08/2026 11:06am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. NCAA Women's Basketball Top 25 Schedule 01/08/2026 11:04am • All Times EST Thursday's Games No. 2 Texas (17-0) vs. Auburn (11-5), 8 p.m. No. 3 South Carolina (15-1) at Arkansas (11-6), 7:30 p.m. No. 5 Oklahoma (14-1) vs. No. 18 Ole Miss (14-3), 7 p.m. No. 6 Kentucky (15-1) at Alabama (15-1), 7 p.m. No. 7 Vanderbilt (15-0) vs. Missouri (12-5), 7:30 p.m. No. 8 NCAA Men's Basketball Top 25 Schedule 01/08/2026 11:03am • All Times EST Thursday's Games No. 8 Gonzaga (16-1) vs. Santa Clara (13-4), 11:30 p.m. No. 12 Michigan State (13-2) vs. Northwestern (8-6), 6:30 p.m. No. 16 Illinois (11-3) vs. Rutgers (8-7), 8:30 p.m. Saturday's Games No. 1 Arizona (15-0) at TCU (11-4), 4 p.m. No. 2 Michigan (14-0) vs. Wisconsin (1 Underdog Promo Code WTOP: Get $75 Bonus for Miami-Ole Miss, NBA Games 01/08/2026 11:00am • 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 Dive into Miami vs. Ole Miss and and NBA game tonight with the Underdog promo code WTOP to redeem a generous DFS bonus to use the Tracking the retirement announcements of members of Congress 01/08/2026 11:00am • A number of member of Congress from both major parties have announced they are heading for the exits, either because they are seeking higher office, are not running again or are leaving early before the 2026 elections. Midterms are historically tough on the party of the sitting president. With Repub Spanish bishops will allow government to oversee compensation for sexual abuse victims 01/08/2026 10:54am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Spain���s Catholic bishops agreed Thursday to let the Spanish government���s ombudsman have the final say in the church���s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who have died or whose possible crimes are too old to be prosecuted. The agreement, which e Italy aviation agency condemns pro-Palestinian protest that blocked Israel-bound passengers 01/08/2026 10:48am • ROME (AP) ��� Italy���s aviation authority on Thursday strongly condemned an incident at Milan���s Malpensa airport in which it said Israeli-bound passengers were temporarily blocked from boarding a flight to Tel Aviv by pro-Palestinian activists. The president of the ENAC authority, Pierluigi Di Pa Eni at ���final stage' of decision to develop Cronos gas field off Cyprus, says COO 01/08/2026 10:44am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ��� Italian energy company Eni said Thursday it is in the ���final stage��� of deciding whether to go ahead with developing a natural gas field off Cyprus that could deliver the hydrocarbon to European markets within two years. Eni has a reputation for expediting energy project Trump officials and Louisiana put an end to another decades-old school desegregation order 01/08/2026 10:41am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court mandates they describe as outdated. A federal judge on Monday approved a joint motion from Louisiana and the U.S. Justice Department to dis Lebanese military moves to new phase of disarming non-state groups like Hezbollah 01/08/2026 10:36am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Lebanon's military said Thursday it had concluded the first phase of a plan to fully deploy across southern Lebanon and disarm non-state groups, notably Hezbollah. Israel said the development was encouraging but ���far from sufficient," and its Foreign Ministry said the group still Iran 'does not desire a war but we are ready for it,' says foreign minister 01/08/2026 10:34am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� Iran does not want war with Israel or the United States, but is ready to fight back if attacked again, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday. Speaking in Beirut, Araghchi told reporters that Iran is also ready for negotiations with the U.S. over its nuclear program as long as Bahrain court sentences long-targeted activist to 6 months in prison over interview in Beirut 01/08/2026 10:33am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� A court in Bahrain sentenced a political activist in the island kingdom to six months in prison and a fine Thursday over an interview he gave in Beirut in which he criticized Arab states and called for more support for the Palestinians. The case against Ebrahim Protesters in South Africa condemn US intervention in Venezuela, call for Maduro's release 01/08/2026 10:31am • PRETORIA (AP) ��� Dozens of people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the South African capital Thursday to protest the U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the capture of former president Nicolas Maduro. The protests were led by members of the South African Communist Party, an ally of the African N Farmers drive tractors through Paris and block highways in Greece to protest free trade deal 01/08/2026 10:24am • PARIS (AP) ��� Dozens of angry farmers demonstrated in France and Greece Thursday, halting traffic and blocking key roads with tractors to protest European Union plans to move forward with a free trade deal with five South American nations. Farmers drove about a hundred tractors into Paris and gathe Lebanese pop star turned militant Fadel Shaker tells court he is innocent 01/08/2026 10:20am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� A Lebanese pop star turned Islamic militant told a military court Thursday that he is innocent and did not take part in battles against the Lebanese army or fund a radical cleric, judicial officials said. Fadel Shaker handed himself over to the country���s military intelligence servi