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Home renovation company Curbio settles DC lawsuit for $7.5M 09/12/2024 09:57am • Potomac, Maryland-based Curbio, which specializes in renovating homes to prepare them for resale, will settle a lawsuit brought by the D.C. Attorney General's Office (OAG) last fall for $7.5 million, including restitution to homeowners who claim they were harmed by Curbio's deceptive practices. C Taylor Swift wins big at MTV Video Music Awards, ties Beyonc�����s record and thanks Travis Kelce 09/12/2024 09:26am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Taylor Swift 's dominance continued at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she took home seven awards ��� including the night's biggest, the trophy for video of the year. In her speech Wednesday night, Swift thanked her ���boyfriend, Travis��� for being on set of the ���Fortnight��� A trial begins for lawyers who once represented the Kremlin's late foe Alexei Navalny 09/12/2024 08:49am • PETUSHKI, Russia (AP) ��� Three lawyers who once represented the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny went on trial Thursday in Russia, part of the Kremlin's unrelenting crackdown on dissent that has reached levels unseen since Soviet times. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser were arres EU top diplomat urges Lebanon and Israel to ease tensions along their border 09/12/2024 08:31am • BEIRUT (AP) ��� The European Union���s top diplomat on Thursday urged Lebanon and Israel to work on deescalating tensions along the border, saying that since his last trip to the region in January ���the drums of war have not stopped pounding.��� The comments of Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy Freshly squeezed: Savers already feeling the pain ahead of likely start to Fed rate cuts 09/12/2024 08:00am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� This week the Federal Reserve is likely to cut its main interest rate for the first time in more than four years. It's a momentous move, but savers have been feeling the squeeze for months. Financial markets and banks try to get ahead of such moves by the Fed, and yields have been Xavi's Barcelona was whipped twice by Girona last season so Flick's team is looking for revenge 09/12/2024 07:47am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� The lowest of the lows of Barcelona���s trophyless campaign last season was when it was spanked not once, but twice, by the formerly modest Girona. Girona dealt Barcelona a pair of stinging 4-2 defeats as the club partly owned by Manchester City���s Abu Dhabi ownership emer How a traveling 'health train' has become an essential source of free care in South Africa 09/12/2024 06:50am • JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Thethiwe Mahlangu woke early on a chilly morning and walked through her busy South African township, where minibuses hooted to pick up commuters and smoke from sidewalk breakfast stalls hung in the air. Her eyes had been troubling her. But instead of going to her nearby health North Carolina looks for a 3-0 start when its hosts N.C. Central 09/12/2024 06:10am • N.C. Central (1-1) at North Carolina (2-0), Saturday, 6 p.m. ET (ACC Network Extra) BetMGM College Football Odds: No line. Series record: First meeting. What���s at stake? North Carolina is 2-0 for the fifth time in the six years of Mack Brown's second tenure with the program. The Tar Heels survived Air Force goes to Baylor having won its last 5 games against power conference teams 09/12/2024 06:10am • Air Force (1-1) at Baylor (1-1), Saturday, 7:30 p.m. ET (FS1) BetMGM College Football Odds: Baylor by 14 1/2. Series record: Baylor leads 3-1. WHAT���S AT STAKE? Air Force has won the last five games it has played against power conference teams, the most recent being 30-15 over Baylor in the 2022 Ar No. 23 Nebraska enters game vs. Northern Iowa as a ranked team for the first time in 5 years 09/12/2024 06:10am • LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) ��� No. 23 Nebraska will enter its game against Northern Iowa on Saturday as a Top 25 team for the first time in five years. That fact elicited little more than a shrug from coach Matt Rhule. ���It���s where we should probably be, but it���s not where we want to be,��� he said. "M No. 7 Tennessee has fresh examples to help focus on Kent State with Oklahoma up next 09/12/2024 06:10am • KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� The No. 7 Tennessee Volunteers have several recent examples to keep them from taking Kent State for granted Saturday night. Just look at Notre Dame and Penn State last week. Then-No. 5 Notre Dame lost on its own field to Northern Illinois. No. 8 Penn State narrowly escaped Vanderbilt looks to improve to 3-0 when Commodores visit Georgia State 09/12/2024 06:10am • Vanderbilt (2-0) at Georgia State (1-1), Saturday, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN+) BetMGM College Football Odds: Vanderbilt by 10 1/2. Series record: First meeting. WHAT���S AT STAKE? Vanderbilt is trying to improve to 3-0 for the first time since 2017. The Commodores haven't had a winning season since 2013. Geo No. 20 Arizona visits No. 14 Kansas State for non-conference showdown of new Big 12 rivals 09/12/2024 06:10am • No. 20 Arizona (2-0) at No. 14 Kansas State (2-0), Friday, 8 p.m. ET (FOX) BetMGM College Football Odds: Kansas State by 7. Series record: Arizona leads 5-1-1. WHAT���S AT STAKE? The new Big 12 rivals are meeting for the first time since Sept. 9, 1978, when Arizona beat Kansas State 31-0 in Tucson. NC State looks to regroup from Tennessee loss by hosting Louisiana Tech 09/12/2024 06:10am • Louisiana Tech (1-0) at N.C. State (1-1), Saturday, noon ET (ACC Network) BetMGM College Football Odds: N.C. State by 21 1/2. Series record: N.C. State leads 2-0. What's at stake? N.C. State stumbled badly in its marquee matchup against now-No. 7 Tennessee and fell out of the AP Top 25. The goal now Houston looks to avoid first 0-3 start since 2012 when Cougars face rival Rice 09/12/2024 06:10am • Rice (1-1) at Houston (0-2), Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (ESPN+) BetMGM College Football Odds: Houston by 4. Series record: Houston leads 33-12. WHAT���S AT STAKE? Houston looks to avoid going 0-3 for the first time since 2012 and to snap a five-game losing streak dating to Nov. 11. The Cougars have won sev