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Pressure points ahead could bring a quicker end to the shutdown 10/08/2025 03:36pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The first week is the easy one. The pressure to resolve the federal shutdown will gradually build as the shutdown enters its second week ��� and as government workers miss paychecks and important programs run out of money. Here are some pressure points ahead that could have a bi Indiana set to execute man convicted of 2001 rape and murder of small-town teenage girl 10/08/2025 03:25pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Indiana will put to death a man who was convicted in the 2001 rape and murder of a teenage girl, the state���s third execution since resuming capital punishment last year. The execution of Roy Lee Ward is scheduled before sunrise Friday at the state prison in Michigan City, Indiana Joan Kennedy, first wife of Sen. Edward Kennedy, has died 10/08/2025 03:14pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a troubled marriage marked by family tragedies, her husband���s infidelities and her own decades-long struggles with alcoholism and mental health, died on Wednesday. She was 89. The former Joan Bennett, one of the Comey pleads not guilty as lawyers signal intent to argue Trump foe's case is politically motivated 10/08/2025 02:56pm • ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) ��� James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a criminal case that has highlighted the Justice Department's efforts to target adversaries of President Donald Trump, with lawyers for the former FBI director saying they plan to argue the prosecution is politically motivated and Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants 10/08/2025 02:50pm • A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A photographer whose black and white images investigate poverty in America. Hahrie Han, Tommy Orange and M Missouri's Drinkwitz has one question for Alabama counterpart DeBoer: What are you wearing Saturday? 10/08/2025 02:46pm • Missouri intends to wear its black jerseys for Saturday's high-profile showdown with Alabama. Evidently, Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer plans to wear black, too. During an SEC conference call with reporters Wednesday, Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz hung around on the line after his allotted time to ask Meme stock resurgence prompts return of central meme investment fund 10/08/2025 02:43pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A resurgence of meme stock interest has prompted the return of a one-stop fund for the volatile and quirky investments. Roundhill Investments is launching a meme ETF, which is an exchange-traded fund consisting solely of meme stocks. Several of those stocks have ridden a wave of me Putin is in Tajikistan for meetings with leaders of ex-Soviet leaders 10/08/2025 02:42pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russian President Vladimir Putin began a state visit Wednesday in Tajikistan, a three-day trip that includes a series of meetings with leaders of other nations that once were part of the Soviet Union. Trade and other ties with Tajikistan and other countries in Central Asia are increa Music Review: Khalid bounces back with complex look at love in 'After Sun Goes Down' 10/08/2025 02:25pm • If you want to know how far Khalid has traveled in a year, just look at his album covers. His summer 2024 16-track ���Sincere��� showed the R&B star solo, in black and white, looking at the camera equal parts faded and standoffish. In his new one, out Friday, he's at the center of a crowd of swe Arrivals of international students to the US dropped almost a fifth in August, data shows 10/08/2025 02:19pm • The number of international student arrivals in the U.S. dropped by nearly a fifth in August as American universities started the new academic year, according to federal data. The dip is the latest sign of a hit to colleges' international enrollment as the Trump administration ratchets up scrutiny In CBS role, Bari Weiss goes from critic of mainstream news to one of its gatekeepers 10/08/2025 02:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bari Weiss has made a name for herself as an unflinching critic of mainstream news outlets. Now, she's set to run one. The announcement this week of Weiss as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News has been met with a response the 41-year-old has grown accustomed to in her years as a p 1964 cold case solved in New York with DNA evidence, authorities say 10/08/2025 02:01pm • ALBANY. N.Y. (AP) ��� Authorities in New York's capital city have identified the man they say raped, stabbed and bludgeoned to death a woman inside her home more than 60 years ago. Officials linked DNA from Joseph Nowakowski, who died in 1998, to the killing of 50-year-old Catherine Blackburn in Sep Montgomery County schools move all high school graduations to UMBC in Baltimore 10/08/2025 01:57pm • All graduations for the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) class of 2026 will be held at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in Baltimore, according to a Wednesday statement from an MCPS spokesperson. ���This change ensures a comfortable indoor setting, easy access for familie NCAA moves closer to allowing college athletes to bet on pro sports 10/08/2025 01:29pm • The NCAA moved a step closer Wednesday to allowing athletes and athletic department staff members to bet on professional sports. The Division I Administrative Committee approved the change, which must still be approved by Division II and III for it to go into effect. If approved by all three d NCAA approves a single January transfer window in college football 10/08/2025 01:12pm • The NCAA approved a single January transfer window in college football on Wednesday, a move that will allow coaches with high-stakes postseason games to focus more on matchups than player retention. The Division I Administrative Committee approved the new window of January 2-16. Bowl subdivision coa