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White House wants $56 billion from Congress for disaster relief, child care and high-speed Internet 10/25/2023 05:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The White House is asking lawmakers for nearly $56 billion in emergency spending to help the government respond to natural disasters, shore up funding for child care centers and keep high-speed internet running for low-income families ��� outlining President Joe Biden's domestic Virginia Daybook 10/25/2023 04:31pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Wednesday, Oct. 25. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other S How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 10/25/2023 10/25/2023 04:21pm • Wall Street sank back to where it was in May, pulled down by steep drops in several Big Tech companies. The S&P 500 fell 1.4% Wednesday after rising bond yields tightened their chokehold on the stock market and some of the most influential companies turned in mixed profit reports. The Dow lost Alphabet, Thermo Fisher fall; Microsoft, General Dynamics rise, Wednesday, 10/25/2023 10/25/2023 04:17pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes on Wednesday: Microsoft Corp., up $10.14 to $340.67. The software giant reported strong fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue. Alphabet Inc., down $13.20 to $125.61. The owner of search engine giant Google reported di Bud Light to return as the UFC's official beer next year as it recovers from a conservative backlash 10/25/2023 03:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Bud Light is set to return as the official beer of the UFC in the U.S. next year as the brand tries to recover from a conservative backlash to a promotion with a transgender influencer. Under a new multiyear marketing deal between the promoter of mixed martial arts fights and Bud L Madison McFerrin, daughter of 'Don't Worry Be Happy' singer, performs at Wolf Trap 10/25/2023 03:06pm • Bobby McFerrin won the Grammy for Record of the Year with the catchy tune "Don't Worry Be Happy" (1988). This Sunday night, his talented daughter, Madison McFerrin, performs songs from her first full-length album live at The Barns at Wolf Trap, a rustic indoor venue that she's never played before Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola's 'Priscilla' 10/25/2023 02:35pm • Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ���60s. But for Priscilla Beaulieu, teenage fantasy became a strange and surreal reality. Sofia Coppola���s ���Priscilla,��� starring Cailee Spaeny Sam Bankman-Fried plans to testify at his New York fraud trial, his lawyer says 10/25/2023 01:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried plans to testify at his fraud trial, his lawyer told a federal judge Wednesday, ending speculation over whether a man who embraced the spotlight during his years atop the cryptocurrency world could remain silent after prosecutors portrayed him as a gre A second Baltimore firefighter has died after battling rowhouse fire 10/25/2023 10:10am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A second Baltimore firefighter has died from injuries sustained while battling a rapidly intensifying blaze that engulfed multiple rowhouses in northwest Baltimore last week, a city official said. Lt. Dillon Rinaldo was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after the fi Former British police officer jailed for abusing over 200 girls on Snapchat 10/25/2023 08:48am • LONDON (AP) ��� A former British police officer was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years after he pleaded guilty to over 100 child sex offenses, including threatening and blackmailing more than 200 young girls into sending him sexual photos of themselves on Snapchat. Taco Bell���s battle to free the ���Taco Tuesday��� trademark is officially over 10/25/2023 08:40am • New York (CNN) ��� Taco Bell has won its fight over the ���Taco Tuesday��� trademark in all 50 states now that lone holdout ��� a restaurant in New Jersey ��� has ���parted ways��� with the term. The chain���s months-long efforts to cancel usage of the trademark ended Tuesday, with Taco Bell sayi Hong Kong cuts taxes for foreign home buyers and stock traders as it seeks to maintain global status 10/25/2023 07:21am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong���s leader on Wednesday cut taxes for some homebuyers and stock traders to boost markets as the city seeks to maintain its reputation as a global financial hub. Chief Executive John Lee said the extra stamp duties imposed on non-resident buyers and current local homeown CME: Q3 Earnings Snapshot 10/25/2023 07:11am • CHICAGO (AP) ��� CHICAGO (AP) ��� CME Group Inc. (CME) on Wednesday reported third-quarter earnings of $750.2 million. The Chicago-based company said it had net income of $2.06 per share. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $2.25 per share. The results surpassed Wall Street expe Parents like private school vouchers so much that demand is exceeding budgets in some states 10/25/2023 12:14am • In some states, higher-income families can now use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition -- and more people than projected are taking the offer, which might force scrambles to shore up state budgets. It's especially an issue in states like Arizona and Iowa, where at least some families whos After gun found in school, Montgomery Co. officer urges parents, students to speak up 10/24/2023 09:50pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, police are encouraging more students to say something, if they see something after a student at Walter Johnson High School was arrested Monday for bringing a gun to school. Security was notified by another student that Akram Nassir, 17, of Bethesda, had a gun while in