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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 Lawsuit against Trump's Washington National Guard deployment exposes country's deep partisan divide 10/08/2025 12:15pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A partisan battle is playing out in a Washington courtroom that could decide the fate of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital. Dozens of states have taken sides in a lawsuit challenging the open-ended National Guard deployment Unaffiliated voters ask Maryland judge to let challenge to partisan primaries move ahead 10/08/2025 11:46am • A lawyer representing five unaffiliated voters is asking an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge to deny a motion to dismiss their suit challenging a state law that limits the participation of unaffiliated voters in Maryland primary elections. The plaintiffs, represented by former Lt. Gov. Boy Meet R360, the latest disruptor in the sports world. The rebel group is looking to shake up rugby 10/08/2025 11:27am • Golf has LIV. Soccer had the quickly aborted Super League. Athletics was confronted with the failed Grand Slam Track. Meet the latest disruptor in the sports world: R360. Rugby is having to tackle a live threat to its existing global order, an upstart co-founded by a former player married into Brita Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem 10/08/2025 11:12am • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands of years ago. “Let’s close our eyes and ask our Mother Water for permission to sail in pea 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, Trump yet to endorse Republican in final stretch of Virginia governor's race 10/08/2025 09:57am • (WASHINGTON) -- Winsome Earle-Sears faces strong headwinds in her campaign to be Virginia's next Republican governor. She's been outpaced in fundraising and lags in polling behind her Democratic rival, Rep. Abigail Spanberger. And the support from one voice that could narrow this race is largely ab Israeli military intercepts another flotilla heading to Gaza and detains scores of activists 10/08/2025 08:24am • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military intercepted a nine-boat flotilla trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza early Wednesday in the Mediterranean Sea and detained scores of activists on board, the flotilla organizers and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. The ministry said the Torrential rains cause deadly flooding in northern Vietnam 10/08/2025 07:19am • HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Intense storms in the aftermath of Typhoon Matmo triggered widespread flooding in northern Vietnam and killed at least eight people while damaging thousands of homes. The typhoon, despite not hitting Vietnam directly, brought heavy rains Tuesday that left rivers swollen, flo Player of the Week: Walkersville's Colton Amoriell 10/08/2025 05:30am • It’s a good thing the Walkersville football team located a new kicker for this season, recruiting a player off the school’s soccer team. Senior Colton Amoriell, who kicked for the Lions the past three seasons, occasionally needs a rest. In his first season playing running back at Walkersville Fairfax Co. extends car tax payment deadline, considers other ways to support federal workers 10/08/2025 04:46am • Fairfax County leaders approved a plan on Tuesday to delay the car tax payment deadline by a month and briefly considered additional ways to support federal workers during the current government shutdown. While the payment was originally due on Monday, the Board of Supervisors approved a plan to Priscilla nears major hurricane status in Pacific as new tropical storm swirls in the Atlantic 10/08/2025 03:56am • MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Priscilla neared Category 3 status on Tuesday in the Pacific as a new tropical storm strengthened in the Atlantic, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Just off the west coast of Mexico, Priscilla was spinning with maximum sustained winds around 105 mph (169 kph) and mov A divided Israel marks 2 years since Oct. 7 attack while war persists in Gaza and hostages languish 10/08/2025 02:30am • REIM, Israel (AP) — Thousands of people converged on southern Israel on Tuesday to mourn the dead as the nation marked two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war, while Israel and Hamas pressed on with indirect peace talks in Egypt. The main memorial event in Martin Necas scores 2 goals, and the Avalanche rout the Kings 4-1 in a dominant season opener 10/08/2025 01:34am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Necas scored two goals, Nathan MacKinnon had two assists to become the leading scorer in Avalanche history, and Colorado opened the regular season with a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. Sam Malinski and Artturi Lehkonen also scored during Colorado He lives alongside lions in Nairobi. The human-wildlife collision is dazzling — and dangerous 10/08/2025 12:48am • KAJIADO, Kenya (AP) — This year, less than a kilometer from where I live, a girl named Peace Mwende was killed by a lion. The news hit me hard: She was 14, the same age as my youngest daughter, and the lioness responsible may have been one of the animals we see in our neighborhood almost weekly. O