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EU lawmakers OK $815 billion recovery program 02/10/2021 06:57am • BRUSSELS (AP) ��� European Union lawmakers on Wednesday approved a 672.5 billion euro ($815 billion) recovery package of loans and grants to help member nations recover more quickly from the coronavirus pandemic, but countries will not receive the money for several months. The European Parliament vo 5 Reasons to Keep Paying Federal Student Loans During the Pandemic 02/10/2021 12:00am • A lengthy reprieve from paying a student loan bill with no penalty? What could beat that? Last month, the Biden administration announced that coronavirus pandemic relief originally enacted under the CARES Act in March 2020 will be extended, giving most federal student loan borrowers additional bill MATCHDAY: Manchester City takes winning streak to Swansea 02/09/2021 06:55pm • A look at what���s happening in European soccer on Wednesday: ENGLAND Already in the League Cup final and with a commanding lead in the Premier League, Manchester City could be headed for another domestic treble as Pep Guardiola's team switches focus to the FA Cup and a fifth-round trip to second-ti American forward Llanez returns to US from Heerenveen 02/09/2021 06:38pm • American forward Ulysses Llanez has returned to the United States from the Netherlands ���due to private circumstances,��� his Dutch club Heerenveen of the Eredivisie said Tuesday. The 19-year-old from Lynwood, California, has appeared in five league matches this season but none since Dec. 23. The D Depleted Madrid wins postponed game, gets closer to Atl��tico 02/09/2021 06:33pm • MADRID (AP) ��� It was an assist by a left back on a goal by another left back that sealed Real Madrid's win in the Spanish league on Tuesday. Zinedine Zidane's team needed an unusual starting lineup to keep its momentum and cut Atl��tico Madrid's lead to five points, with Marcelo setting up Ferland Penguins tap Hextall as GM, Burke as president of hockey ops 02/09/2021 05:11pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� Ron Hextall's relationship with the Pittsburgh Penguins is complicated. His mandate as the team's new general manager is not. The Penguins hired Hextall on Tuesday to build a team capable of winning the Stanley Cup. Not in five years. Not in three years. This year. It's a level o Black farmers unconvinced by Vilsack's 'root out' racism vow 02/09/2021 04:47pm • BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden's nomination of Tom Vilsack to lead the Agriculture Department received a chilly reaction from many Black farmers who contend he didn't do enough to help them the last time he had the job. Vilsack, a former Iowa governor who served eight years as agric New boost for minority businesses in underserved communities 02/09/2021 11:41am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) ��� Small minority-owned businesses have often struggled to gain access to capital and other tools to grow, a challenge made more daunting by the economic upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic. But a new effort announced Tuesday aims to address those disparities in pockets of the nat 2021's Top First-Time Homebuyer Programs in Maryland 02/09/2021 12:00am • You've saved up for a home for years, but even with low mortgage rates, you worry about affording both the down payment and the monthly costs that come with homeownership. If you live in Maryland -- where the homeownership rate is 67%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau -- know that owning a home Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, will accept as payment soon 02/08/2021 10:00pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) ��� Holders of Bitcoin may be able to cash in some of their investment in the digital currency for a brand new electric car. Electric automaker Tesla said Monday that it has invested around $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and it plans to begin accepting the digital currency as paymen New York's high court ends state case against Paul Manafort 02/08/2021 07:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Paul Manafort won���t face mortgage fraud charges in New York after the state���s highest court declined to revisit lower court decisions that barred prosecuting Donald Trump���s former campaign chairman on double jeopardy grounds. The New York Court of Appeals decision last week c Florida man charged with COVID relief fraud 02/08/2021 07:05pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) ��� A Florida man received more than $7.2 million in coronavirus relief funds after concocting hundreds of nonexistent employees on loan applications, federal prosecutors said. A federal grand jury in Orlando handed down an indictment last week against Don Cisternino, 45, of Chulu American midfielder Booth on loan to Austrian's St P��lten 02/08/2021 03:37pm • American midfielder Taylor Booth went on loan Monday from Bayern Munich to Austria's St. P��lten. The 19-year-old had made two appearances this season for Bayern Munich II in the German third tier. Bayern said Booth had been to St. Pollen for a trial in recent days. Born in Eden, Utah, Booth joined ECB's Lagarde: Pandemic continues to threaten economy 02/08/2021 12:22pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ��� The head of the European Central Bank says the winter surge in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of mutated variants of the virus pose a ���significant downside risk��� to the economy despite hope from the start of vaccinations. ECB President Christine Lagarde told a sessi Guardiola's patient approach pays off with flourishing Foden 02/08/2021 10:05am • Pep Guardiola had only just arrived at Manchester City in the summer of 2016 when he was told he had a generational talent on his hands in Phil Foden. Then the Spaniard witnessed it with his own eyes. ���We saw something special. Unique,��� Guardiola recalled about the day Foden ��� then a precociou