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Do you need support launching or growing your small business? Get help locally from Greater Washington Board of Trade, WACIF 09/06/2024 02:05pm • gwbotThe Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Washington Area Community Investment Fund aim to help drive economic development in our region through helping small businesses and start-ups, from launch through growth. WTOP Business Reporter Jeff Clabaugh sat down to discuss local trends a AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New Hampshire's state primaries 09/06/2024 02:04pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� New Hampshire is among the smallest states in the country, but its state primaries on Tuesday have enough intrigue to fill a much larger state. The New England state has an independent streak that makes it hard to categorize as red or blue. While it has voted for the Democratic p Mexico's plan to make judges stand for election is indeed aimed at foreign firms, president says 09/06/2024 12:21pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Foreign business chambers have been warning for weeks that a proposed overhaul of Mexico���s judiciary, that would make judges stand for election, will hurt foreign businesses and endanger investment in Mexico. And President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum has spent weeks trying to cal Poland charges 3 Belarusian officials with diverting a plane to Minsk in 2021 to arrest a dissident 09/06/2024 11:45am • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Polish prosecutors on Friday charged three Belarusian officials with using a ruse to divert a Poland-registered plane while in flight three years ago and violating the freedom of 132 people on board as they sought to arrest a dissident. The three officials are accused of ord Sports betting firm bet365 fined $33K for taking bets after outcomes were known 09/06/2024 11:37am • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� New Jersey gambling regulators have levied a $33,000 fine on sports betting company bet365 for taking wagers on events in which the outcome was already known, and on games that were not approved for betting. The state Division of Gaming Enforcement revealed Wednesday tha Japan's leader makes a farewell visit to Seoul and reaffirms sympathy for Korean colonial victims 09/06/2024 11:32am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ��� Less than a month before leaving office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Seoul and reaffirmed his sympathy for the suffering of Koreans during Japan���s colonial rule, as he and his South Korean counterpart Friday underscored the need to maintain warming tie LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business and closing all of its stores 09/06/2024 11:26am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� LL Flooring, the hardwood flooring retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business. Less than a month after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the Virginia-based company says it is now ���winding down operations" after failing to find a buyer in re 'Demon Copperhead' author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement 09/06/2024 11:12am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Barbara Kingsolver, this year's recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn't imagine receiving such honors. ���I just felt this continuous skepticism, not from readers but from critics and the gatekeepers. It was on two co Hundreds of places in the US said racism was a public health crisis. What's changed? 09/06/2024 11:06am • More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Racial justice advocates said they finally felt heard by the quick swell of political will to address disparities like disp Sports on TV for Sept. 7 - 8 09/06/2024 10:10am • (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Saturday, Sept. 7 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN���S) 5:30 a.m. FS2 ��� AFL Finals: Carlton at Brisbane, Qualifying Final AUTO RACING 8:30 a.m. TRUTV ��� FIM MotoGP: The San Marino Grand Prix Sprint, Misano Adriatico, Italy 11 a.m. USA Jamaica's female farmers rebuild after Hurricane Beryl through women-led cash voucher program 09/06/2024 10:03am • CROSS KEYS, Jamaica (AP) ��� Alance Wisdom got inside her home just in time to watch the ceiling of her front room collapse. As the rain rushed in, a violent wind ripped at the roof, piece by piece. ���Everything just fell,��� Wisdom, 79, said of the day Hurricane Beryl, the strongest July Atlantic Sports on TV for Sept. 9 - 15 09/06/2024 10:00am • Adv07 (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Monday, Sept. 9 COLLEGE GOLF 9:30 a.m. GOLF ��� The Folds of Honor Collegiate: First Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Grand Haven, Mich. 4:30 p.m. GOLF ��� The Folds of Honor Collegiate: First Round, American Dunes Golf Club, Gran Ruins of a long-sunken Greek village emerge as drought saps a vital reservoir 09/06/2024 09:39am • LAKE MORNOS, Greece (AP) ��� Like ghosts from the past, sunken villages at the bottom of water reservoirs are not meant to be seen. But the ruins of Kallio in the mountains of central Greece are becoming very much visible ��� and they have a warning to deliver. As an unprecedented drought induced by Pope arrives in Papua New Guinea for the second leg of his Southeast Asia and Oceania trip 09/06/2024 09:36am • PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) ��� Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday for the second leg of his four-nation trip through Southeast Asia and Oceania, becoming the second pope to visit the poor, strategically important South Pacific nation. A cannon salute and marching band greete Bankrupt LL Flooring pivots from reorganization and will close stores, including all in DC area 09/06/2024 08:48am • Richmond, Virginia-based LL Flooring, the former Lumber Liquidators, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization last month has pivoted to full liquidation and will close all stores. That includes stores in Woodbridge, Chantilly, Manassas and Leesburg, Virginia, and stores in Beltsvi