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PPP is gone, but government help for small businesses isn't 10/21/2021 07:00am • The federal government���s Paycheck Protection Program provided small-business owners with just under $800 billion in COVID-19 relief, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. The PPP concluded on May 31, but as businesses forge ahead in the recovery process, they may find a continued Barcelona hosts Madrid, Sociedad at Atl��tico on super Sunday 10/21/2021 05:05am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� Barcelona faces another test of its post-Messi era when Real Madrid visits Camp Nou on an action-packed Sunday that also features a clash between the Spanish league leader and its defending champion. The first cl��sico since Lionel Messi left for Paris will inevitably overs Asian shares mixed after Evergrande sale deal called off 10/20/2021 11:59pm • Shares are mixed in Asia after major Chinese property developer Evergrande said a plan to sell its property management arm to a smaller rival had fallen through. Shares slipped in Hong Kong and Tokyo but rose in most other regional markets. China Evergrande Group's shares tumbled nearly 12% while Big changes in White House ideas to pay for $2 trillion plan 10/20/2021 08:17pm • SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) ��� In an abrupt change, the White House on Wednesday floated new plans to pay for parts of President Joe Biden���s $2 trillion social services and climate change package, shelving a proposed big increase in corporate tax rates though also adding a new billionaires' tax on the inv North Dakota can claim pipeline policing costs as damages 10/20/2021 01:20pm • BISMARCK, N.D, (AP) ��� North Dakota can continue to pursue reimbursement from the federal government of the millions of dollars spent policing protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Traynor on Tuesday denied the federal government���s mo Credit Suisse faces penalties over Mozambique loan deals 10/20/2021 11:04am • ZURICH (AP) ��� Credit Suisse has announced settlements totaling nearly $700 million with British and U.S. authorities over lending to Mozambique state-owned companies that Swiss regulators say violated anti-money laundering rules. The Swiss financial markets authority also required the Zurich-based Updates to Public Service Loan Forgiveness 10/20/2021 12:00am • The U.S. Department of Education has announced some changes to make the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program easier to navigate and to extend forgiveness to student loan borrowers who previously did not qualify. Under PSLF, federal student loan borrowers can receive loan forgiveness in exchange Biden focuses on climate, families in trimmed $2T plan 10/19/2021 10:03pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Scaling down his ���build back better��� plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government-overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate change and money for middle-class priorities ��� child Retired Rep. Bill Zeliff, who probed Waco siege, dies at 85 10/19/2021 05:25pm • Former U.S. Rep. Bill Zeliff, a three-term Republican best known for helping lead the congressional investigation of the government's disastrous siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, has died. He was 85. Zeliff, who represented southern and eastern New Hampshire in the U.S. House Biden's stimulus plan is fueling short-term inflation, SF Fed paper finds 10/19/2021 02:03pm • President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is contributing to elevated inflation but it isn't expected to overheat the economy, a new research paper from the San Francisco Federal Reserve concludes.The package signed into law in March included stimulus checks, enhanced unemployment ben Israel gives legal status to 4K in gesture to Palestinians 10/19/2021 12:01pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Israel said Tuesday it would grant legal residency to 4,000 Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a gesture to the Palestinian Authority that will allow people who have lived under severe restrictions for years to get official IDs. It's one of a series of gesture Fate of NYC City Hall Jefferson statue unclear after vote 10/18/2021 06:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An 1833 statue of Thomas Jefferson will be removed from New York's City Council chamber by the end of the year, a little-known city commission voted Monday, but it's unclear where it will go. Some members of the 51-member New York City Council have called for years for the statue t British Museum to display the world's oldest map of stars 10/18/2021 11:54am • LONDON (AP) ��� The British Museum will display what it says is the world���s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old ���Nebra Sky Disc,��� first discovered in Germany in 1999, is one of the oldest surviving representations Trulieve CEO speaks on growth via M&A, federal pot reform 10/18/2021 09:10am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The U.S.' expanding legal marijuana market is helping drive strong sales and profit growth for multistate operators like Trulieve Cannabis Corp. The Quincy, Florida-based company sells cannabis products in 11 states from Arizona to Pennsylvania. It reported $408.9 million in Fundraising, spending for Virginia governor's race tops previous years 10/18/2021 03:29am • The latest campaign finance documents showed Democrat Terry McAuliffe outraising Republican Glenn Youngkin by about $5.5 million last month as both campaigns in the Virginia governor's race eclipsed fundraising totals from the past five election cycles. This followed GOP nominee Youngkin loaning