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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 Activists oppose once-fired employee���s nomination to head Prince George���s County agency 10/08/2025 01:07pm • Prince George���s County Executive Aisha Braveboy says she has the utmost confidence in her nominee to run the county���s Department of the Environment, even though he was terminated from the department in 2014 for ���gross negligence.��� A group of environmental and community activists in the co A judge has blocked a Trump administration effort to change teen pregnancy prevention programs 10/08/2025 12:40pm • A judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from requiring recipients of federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with Trump's orders aimed at curtailing ���radical indoctrination��� and ���gender ideology." The ruling is a victory for three Planned Parenthood affiliate Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, a tireless advocate for Detroit, dies at age 80 10/08/2025 12:32pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� Former Detroit Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick has died at age 80, according to her family. The family announced Cheeks Kilpatrick's death Wednesday in a statement, calling her a ���tireless warrior��� for Detroit and an ���unwavering champion for her constituents.��� ���For El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown 10/08/2025 12:19pm • VATICAN CITY (AP) ��� The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV, bringing him a packet of letters from immigrant families ���terrorized��� by fear that they and their loved ones will be rounded up and deported as the Trump administration's Stanford football receives $50 million gift from former player Bradford Freeman 10/08/2025 11:32am • STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ��� Stanford football has received a $50 million gift from former player Bradford Freeman, the school announced Wednesday, a boost to a program seeking a turnaround under general manager Andrew Luck. Among other things, the donation will cover five new football scholarships and Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee threatens rural schools and hospitals reliant on immigrant workers 10/08/2025 11:02am • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) ��� When Rob Coverdale started his job in 2023 as superintendent of the K-12 Crow Creek Tribal School in South Dakota, there were 15 unfilled teaching positions. Within nine months, he had filled those vacancies with Filipino teachers, the majority of whom arrived on the H-1B,