²ÝÝ®´«Ã½

2 in ICE custody after group runs from Clara Barton Parkway vehicle stop 07/23/2026 06:44pm • Two people in the country illegally are in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and face deportation after they ran from a commercial vehicle stop Wednesday on Clara Barton Parkway in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to the Department of Homeland Security. U.S. Park Police said Patrick Kane rejoins the Chicago Blackhawks, agreeing to a $16 million, 2-year contract 07/23/2026 06:41pm • CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Kane has rejoined the Chicago Blackhawks, agreeing to a $16 million, two-year contract with his first NHL team. The deal, which includes a full no-movement clause, was announced by the Blackhawks on Thursday. Kane, 37, became one of the NHL's most dynamic players while spend Navy revises what information about sailors can be released, citing internal misinterpretation 07/23/2026 06:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing an internal misinterpretation of a change in policy, the U.S. Navy is backing away from statements that it would begin to restrict press and public access to sailors' service histories — information that has been freely offered for decades. “The Navy continues to fulf Man who killed Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman sentenced to life as family describes trauma, loss 07/23/2026 06:38pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever. Fellow lawm Advocates push for greater energy policymaking power for consumers in DC area, beyond 07/23/2026 06:25pm • The proliferation of data centers and rising energy bills are prompting some D.C.-area consumer advocates to push for changes in the policymaking process. The coalition of consumer groups is targeting PJM, the regional electric grid operator serving 13 states, including Virginia, Maryland and D.C Salman Rushdie testifies at the terrorism trial of the man convicted of stabbing him 07/23/2026 06:23pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ambush that nearly killed him. The prize-winning writer recalled feeling what he thought was a punch Nun speaks out for first time about being detained by ICE while walking to Mass in Texas 07/23/2026 06:17pm • McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day's Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and ce Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump 07/23/2026 06:16pm • BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday. Kagan, one of the court's three liberal justices, told an audience of lawyers and judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit in Bellevu US health officials are investigating a new outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite 07/23/2026 06:11pm • Federal health officials are investigating a new outbreak involving the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora. The outbreak included 72 people as of Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration has not yet identified which products are linked to the illnesses. Officials also have not said where the c NCAA Division I board: No plans to change age-based eligibility rule being challenged in court 07/23/2026 06:08pm • The NCAA Division I Board of Directors doubled down Thursday on the new age-based eligibility rule that has prompted some athletes to go to court in hopes of extending their college careers. The Division I Cabinet, which approved the new rule last month, issued a similar statement last month after a Fairfax Co. schools to roll out tap-to-ride system on school buses 07/23/2026 05:59pm • Fairfax County's public school system is rolling out card readers that students will tap as they board and exit their school buses beginning this fall. The new system will look familiar to regular bus riders, but students will be using new ID cards instead of fare cards, and each tap will help th Next stop, Trump Station? Administration wants to rename New York’s Penn Station 07/23/2026 05:59pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Will President Donald Trump ’s name grace one of the most famous -- and sometimes maligned -- landmarks in his hometown of New York City? The Republican administration this week urged leading U.S. Senators to rename Penn Station as it undertakes a projected $8 billion redesign o They’re on our flag, but do long-gone grizzly bears belong in modern California? 07/23/2026 05:52pm • The grizzly bear on California’s flag went extinct a century ago in the Golden State. Now, a group of tribes and environmentalists is urging the Legislature to study whether it’s possible to bring them back. Grizzlies once lived across most of California. As many as 10,000 may have roamed before Montgomery Co. schools to stop paying AP, IB test fees for some students 07/23/2026 05:52pm • Students who do not meet state qualifications for College and Career Readiness will have to pay their Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate testing fees for the 2026-2027 school year after Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) changed rules surrounding who it will be paying for in Shane Bieber pitches season-high 7 innings as Blue Jays beat Rays 3-1 to avoid 4-game sweep 07/23/2026 05:51pm • TORONTO (AP) — Shane Bieber pitched a season-high seven innings to win his second straight start, George Springer reached base three times and drove in a run, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 on Thursday to avoid a four-game sweep. Bieber (2-1) allowed one run and three hits.