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Maryland lawmakers outline package to support child care 02/10/2022 05:05pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers outlined a package of measures on Thursday to support child-care providers, who have struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last two years, more than 750 providers in Maryland have been forced to close, lawmakers said in a joint video conference US inflation highest in 40 years, with no letup in sight 02/10/2022 03:35pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its highest rate in four decades, hammering American consumers, wiping out pay raises and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that consumer pri Russian gallery says guard added eyes to avant-garde work 02/10/2022 03:13pm • MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country’s top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture's deliberately featureless faces. It said the damage can be repaired. The Yeltsin Center in Ekaterinburg said the va Lebanese government approves budget amid economic meltdown 02/10/2022 01:21pm • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government approved Thursday the state budget for the current year, with a 17% deficit, the prime minister said. He described the development as a first step in reforms desperately needed in the crisis-hit country. The budget will now be sent to parliament for discussion LA Galaxy sign former Bayern, Juve star Douglas Costa as DP 02/10/2022 11:44am • CARSON, Calif. (AP) — The LA Galaxy have signed former Bayern midfielder Douglas Costa as their third designated player. The Galaxy announced the long-planned move Thursday for the speedy veteran on a six-month loan from Grêmio in his native Brazil. The 31-year-old Costa is already on loan to Grà FIFA approves Ademola Lookman nationality switch to Nigeria 02/10/2022 09:19am • ZURICH (AP) — FIFA has approved Leicester City winger Ademola Lookman changing his nationality to represent Nigeria instead of England, world soccer's governing body said Thursday. Lookman, who is on loan at Leicester from Leipzig, was part of England's title win at the 2017 Under-20 World Cup. Th Madrid’s Benzema doubtful for Villarreal ahead of PSG clash 02/10/2022 07:01am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Real Madrid is hoping Karim Benzema will be fit to play in next week’s highly anticipated clash with Paris Saint-Germain. That tasty Champions League round-of-16 tie in Paris on Tuesday will pit Madrid against the team of former nemesis Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappé, th Thursday's Snowboarding Results 02/09/2022 09:59pm • Thursday Men Snowboard Cross Seeding (Start position in parentheses) 1. (15) Eliot Grondin, Canada, 1:16.29 (Q). 2. (7) Julian Lueftner, Austria, 1:17.00 (Q). 3. (13) Jakob Dusek, Austria, 1:17.05 (Q). 4. (2) Alessandro Haemmerle, Austria, 1:17.24 (Q). 5. (11) Martin Noerl, Germany, 1:17.38 (Q). 6. Unconventional Ways to Make Money on Crypto 02/09/2022 07:00pm • Trading Bitcoin on a cryptocurrency exchange like Coinbase or Kraken is far from the only way to make money and get involved in decentralized finance. In fact, education is often the only barrier standing in the way of more consumers embracing these less conventional DeFi strategies and discovering What to Know About the Marriage Tax Penalty 02/09/2022 07:00pm • Prior to the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, some newly married couples received an unpleasant surprise at tax time. Spouses who earned similar amounts of money -- especially those considered high earners -- often found themselves subject to a marriage tax penalty. "The marriage tax pe Thursday's Snowboarding Start List 02/09/2022 06:40pm • Thursday Men Snowboard Cross Seeding 1. Glenn Blois de, Netherlands. 2. Alessandro Haemmerle, Austria. 3. Lorenzo Sommariva, Italy. 4. Cameron Bolton, Australia. 5. Kalle Koblet, Switzerland. 6. Merlin Surget, France. 7. Julian Lueftner, Austria. 8. Hagen Kearney, United States. 9. Lukas Pachner, Au Top-tier Nice and 4th-tier Versailles reach French Cup semis 02/09/2022 05:21pm • PARIS (AP) — Justin Kluivert scored a pair of goals his prolific father would have been proud of as Nice beat Marseille 4-1 to reach the semifinals of the French Cup on Wednesday. Kluivert netted with a firm downward header for the first, then a powerful looping shot over the goalkeeper from just Caden Clark loaned back to NY Red Bulls by RB Leipzig 02/09/2022 04:43pm • HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Caden Clark's switch to RB Leipzig is being delayed. The 18-year-old American midfielder was loaned to the New York Red Bulls for the 2022 Major League Soccer season on Wednesday by sister club RB Leipzig, a deal that included an option to extend. Clark signed with the German Atlanta United finally completes transfer of Thiago Almada 02/09/2022 12:22pm • ATLANTA (AP) — After clearing a designated player spot on its roster, Atlanta United finally completed its latest acquisition from South America by signing Argentina's Thiago Almada on Wednesday. The 20-year-old Almada recorded 24 goals and 11 assists in 100 matches across all competitions for Clu Workers clean Apollo 16 spaceship ahead of 50th anniversary 02/09/2022 12:03pm • HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The Apollo 16 capsule is dusty all these decades after it carried three astronauts to the moon. Cobwebs cling to the spacecraft. Business cards, a pencil, money, a spoon and even a tube of lip balm litter the floor of the giant case that protects the space antique in a muse