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Spanish police detain 57 fans for their part in brawl before Granada-Cadiz game in October 12/17/2025 07:32am • MADRID (AP) ��� Spanish police said Wednesday they have detained 57 fans suspected of participating in a fight before a second-division match in October. Police said the fighting occurred in Granada on Oct. 25 before the game between southern rivals Granada and Cadiz. The detentions were made across ABM Industries: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot 12/17/2025 07:16am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� NEW YORK (AP) ��� ABM Industries Inc. (ABM) on Wednesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income of $34.8 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The New York-based company said it had net income of 56 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for restructuri Losing to Jake Paul would be 'awfully embarrassing' for Joshua, says promoter Hearn 12/17/2025 07:15am • LONDON (AP) ��� Anthony Joshua losing to Jake Paul would be ���an absolute disaster and awfully embarrassing,��� the British fighter's promoter said Wednesday. Writing in a column for the BBC, Eddie Hearn said it was ���crazy��� that Joshua ��� a former two-time world heavyweight champion and Oly General Mills: Fiscal Q2 Earnings Snapshot 12/17/2025 07:11am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� General Mills Inc. (GIS) on Wednesday reported fiscal second-quarter profit of $413 million. On a per-share basis, the Minneapolis-based company said it had net income of 78 cents. Earnings, adjusted for asset impairment costs and non-recurring costs, came t Warner Bros asks shareholders to reject takeover bid from Paramount, saying merger with Netflix is better for customers 12/17/2025 07:08am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Warner Bros asks shareholders to reject takeover bid from Paramount, saying merger with Netflix is better for customers. EU leaders prepare to take unprecedented steps to help Ukraine at a high-stakes summit 12/17/2025 06:53am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� European Union leaders are about to attempt something they���ve never tried before. The chances of failure are significant. Their actions this week could set dangerous precedents and a wrong move could undermine trust among the bloc's 27 member countries for years to come. At a sum Millions are pledged to a Syrian Australian man who stopped a gunman and became a national hero 12/17/2025 06:34am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� Like many Australians strolling at Bondi Beach on long, warm summer evenings, Ahmed al Ahmed just wanted a cup of coffee with a friend. Around him, a bloody massacre erupted as two gunmen targeted Jews during Hanukkah festivities at a park close to the shore. Soon al UK to rejoin EU's student exchange program in a step toward closer ties after Brexit 12/17/2025 06:32am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain will rejoin the European Union���s flagship Erasmus student-exchange program, it was announced Wednesday, in a major step for efforts to reset the U.K.'s post-Brexit relations with the 27-nation bloc. British university and college students and apprentices will be able to stu Haunted house and invisible demons: Tennessee Williams' early radio play 'The Strangers' publishes 12/17/2025 06:24am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Long before the rise of podcast dramas, listeners worldwide tuned in to the audio-only narratives of radio plays. Tom Stoppard and Arthur Miller were among the many playwrights who early in their careers completed brief pieces for radio, while such memorable dramas as Harold Pinte Simone Biles makes Wish kid's dream come true 12/17/2025 06:03am • Throughout December, WTOP is bringing you ���Wish Wednesday,��� where we spotlight what Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic does for families in D.C., Virginia and Maryland. If you would like to help make a wish kid���s dream come true, please visit the foundation���s��website. Have you ever heard the old s Blue Jays newcomer Cody Ponce takes page from playbook of his brother-in-law, NFL star George Kittle 12/17/2025 06:00am • TORONTO (AP) ��� After a short and unsuccessful stint in the major leagues, Cody Ponce was pitching in Asia and still trying to find a mental approach that worked for him on the mound. So he started emulating his brother-in-law, NFL star George Kittle. That led to a huge turnaround for Ponce and a $ An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation 12/17/2025 05:46am • BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) ��� A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone's throw from his grave at the Vatican 12/17/2025 05:19am • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the first pope. Seven years on, the man���s likeness has gone on display in the Vatican, a reunion of s Louvre workers vote to extend a strike at world���s most visited museum 12/17/2025 04:50am • PARIS (AP) ��� Louvre workers vote to extend a strike at world���s most visited museum. Cross and Nicholls State host Houston Christian 12/17/2025 04:43am • Houston Christian Huskies (5-6, 1-2 Southland) at Nicholls State Colonels (2-7, 1-0 Southland) Thibodaux, Louisiana; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Colonels -3.5; over/under is 141.5 BOTTOM LINE: Nicholls State hosts Houston Christian after Zaiden Cross scored 20 points in Nicholls