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From the HERE City National DeskFLORHAM PARK, N.J. — New York Jets receiver Garrett Wilson said Wednesday that he wants to remain with the team, even as a 2-5 start and a shrinking role in the offense have left him openly frustrated.Wilson said he loves playing in New York but…
National
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league.In a letter to fans released…
National
From the HERE City National DeskBOSTON, Mass. — Roughly three of every four retired NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023 had the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a population-wide estimate released Wednesday by a Boston University-led research team.The researchers put the figure at 74.5%. CTE, a…
Education
From the HERE City National DeskWASHINGTON — A nonprofit that represents student borrowers went to federal court Wednesday, accusing the U.S. Department of Education of refusing to honor an expanded loan-forgiveness window for people whose colleges shut their doors before they could finish.The group, Student Defense, filed the case on…
Business
From the HERE City National DeskMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Alphabet shares were down about 11% before the opening bell Thursday after the Google parent fell short of Wall Street forecasts on both sales and profit for the first time in nearly four years and reported that its massive artificial intelligence…
National
From the HERE City National DeskURDA, Spain — Investigators in Spain are focusing on a decision made inside a Madrid rail control room after a high-speed train plowed into the back of a stopped train Wednesday morning in the central province of Toledo, killing 68 people in the country's second…
Traffic
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A woman died after three vehicles collided Wednesday morning at the corner of Mississippi Avenue and Wheeler Road in Southeast Washington, the Metropolitan Police Department said.Officers were sent to the intersection at 8:14 a.m. and found several people hurt. D.C. Fire and EMS took the injured to…
Crime
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 32-year-old Maryland woman has been indicted in Washington on charges that she billed the District’s Medicaid program for help she never gave to the people assigned to her, federal prosecutors in the District announced Wednesday.Camille Aba faces 38 counts in all. The list includes 18 first-degree…
National
From the HERE City National DeskSANTA ANA, Calif. — A federal judge on Wednesday turned down the Justice Department's emergency request to force California election officials to pull aside and stop processing ballots connected to roughly 20,000 people the federal government says are likely noncitizens.U.S. District Judge David O. Carter…
Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Robert White, the Democratic candidate for the Washington, D.C., seat in Congress, may have to give up his at-large spot on the D.C. Council before voters go to the polls Nov. 3, because of a little-known federal law from 1970.The District of Columbia Delegate Act bars the…
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From the HERE City National DeskWASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security is working to contain what appears to be one of the largest exposures of federal workforce data in years, after a hacktivist group released a searchable trove of records on more than 40,000 of its employees and contractors…
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