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6 tips you can use to help improve your credit score 10/11/2022 12:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Credit scores are complicated and because rating agencies consider many factors, the process of improving them can look different for everyone. When Willard Carpenter, 68, wanted a loan to open a new business, he realized that his credit score was not high enough to get approved. How is your credit score calculated and why is it important? 10/11/2022 11:15am • NEW YORK (AP) — You know credit scores exist. You might even know what yours is. But do you know how it's calculated and why it's important? Your credit score affects whether you can get a credit card, rent an apartment, buy a house, start a business, or even get a cell phone contract. A low credi Empty shelves or unaffordable food: Tunisia's crisis deepens 10/11/2022 03:55am • TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisians have been hit with soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples in recent weeks, threatening to turn simmering discontent in the North African country — the cradle of the Arab Spring protests — into larger turmoil. Sugar, vegetable oil, rice and even bott Ex-Fed Chair Bernanke shares Nobel for bank failure research 10/10/2022 10:08pm • STOCKHOLM (AP) — Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and two other U.S.-based economists won the Nobel Prize in economics for research into bank failures -- work that built on lessons learned in the Great Depression and helped shape America’s aggressive response to the 2007-2008 financial Small business group files suit over Biden student loan plan 10/10/2022 03:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A small-business advocacy group has filed a new lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration's efforts to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans — the latest legal challenge to the program. The suit, filed Monday by the Job Creators Network Foundation, Atlético reaches deal with Barcelona to keep Griezmann 10/10/2022 11:01am • MADRID (AP) — Atlético Madrid reached a deal with Barcelona on Monday to sign forward Antoine Griezmann on a permanent transfer, freeing the France international to play more minutes. Atlético said Griezmann signed a contract with the club until June 2026. He was in the final season of his two-y Mortgage rates aren’t just up, they’re volatile 10/10/2022 09:30am • Mortgage rates haven't just shot up this year, their swings have also been volatile. Real estate firm Redfin notes the volatility in rate swings in the past three months has been the most dramatic since 1987. Rates lenders are saying it can change significantly even daily. More Local N AP Top Political News at 11:11 p.m. EDT 10/10/2022 12:00am • Social Security boost will help millions of kids, too GOP makes push to weaken Democrats' grip on Texas border Ohio Senate debate with Ryan, Vance descends into attacks Key Senate chair urges US to freeze cooperation with Saudis As suicides rise, US military seeks to address mental health Small busi Udinese recovers from 2 goals down to draw against Atalanta 10/09/2022 05:02pm • MILAN (AP) — Udinese never gives up. The latest example of the Italian team's fighting spirit saw it recover from two goals down to draw 2-2 against high-flying Atalanta in Serie A on Sunday. Nehuén Pérez and Gerard Deulofeu canceled out goals from Ademola Lookman and Luis Muriel to allow Udines Sevilla held 1-1 by Bilbao in Sampaoli's return; Madrid wins 10/08/2022 05:15pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Dressed in dark jeans and a black T-shirt that couldn't contain his muscular, tattooed arms, Jorge Sampaoli feverishly paced the sideline at Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium as if he wanted to play. But even though the Sevilla players seemingly fed off the intensity of their 62-ye Kluivert nets first goal for Valencia in 2-1 win at Osasuna 10/08/2022 12:26pm • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Justin Kluivert scored his first goal for Valencia to help Gennaro Gattuso’s side win 2-1 against an Osasuna side that finished the testy Spanish league match with nine men on Friday. Kluivert, a forward, was making his first start in his fourth appearance since joining V Sargent scores 7th for Norwich, Trusty gets 2 for Birmingham 10/08/2022 12:24pm • American forward Josh Sargent scored his seventh goal of the season for Norwich in a 3-2 loss at home to Preston North End on Saturday in England's second tier League Championship. American defender Auston Trusty scored his first two goals for Birmingham in a 3-0 win over visiting Bristol City. Sarg Once hopeful Iowa Democrats running uphill vs. Sen. Grassley 10/08/2022 09:43am • WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — When Michael Franken won the Democratic nomination for the Senate in June, many in Iowa's disillusioned party thought they landed on a candidate who could maybe — possibly — reverse their humbling slide in the state. After all, the retired Navy admiral won 76 of 9 Ricardo Pepi scores 2 for Groningen, has 4 goals in 3 games 10/07/2022 08:11pm • Ricardo Pepi scored twice for Groningen during a 3-2 loss at Waalwijk in the Dutch Eredivise on Friday night, giving the American forward four goals in his last three matches. Pepi put the hosts ahead with a penalty kick in the 14th minute after Tomáš Suslov was fouled by Thierry Lutonda. Pepi sen Stocks lose more ground on fears a recession may be looming 10/07/2022 05:34pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Good news on the economy remains bad news for Wall Street, as stocks fell sharply Friday on worries a still-strong U.S jobs market may actually make a recession more likely. The S&P 500 ended 2.8% lower after briefly dropping 3.3% as traders weighed a government report showing