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Once again, job losses fall unequally across the US economy 01/09/2021 10:44am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Ten months into America���s viral outbreak, low-income workers are still bearing the brunt of job losses ��� an unusual and harsh feature of the pandemic recession that flattened the economy last spring. In December, the nation shed jobs for the first time since April. Once aga Stock market shakes off a slump to reach more record highs 01/08/2021 05:15pm • Wall Street notched more milestones Friday as the market largely shrugged off another discouraging jobs report amid expectations that the incoming Biden administration will pump more aid into the pandemic-ravaged economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, its second straight record high, after bouncing bac US consumer credit up 4.4% in November, best in 5 months 01/08/2021 04:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. consumer borrowing rose 4.4% in November, its strongest showing in five months, led by strong gains in auto and student loans that offset a drop in credit card borrowing. The Federal Reserve said Friday that the rise represented an increase of $15.3 billion, the best showing US consumer borrowing advanced 4.4% in November with gains in auto and student loans 01/08/2021 03:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� US consumer borrowing advanced 4.4% in November with gains in auto and student loans. FA Cup trip to unknown at 8th-tier club for Mourinho, Spurs 01/08/2021 02:37pm • A bar transformed into a makeshift changing room. One tiny stand with fewer than 400 seats. And just a brick wall separating the gardens of overlooking houses from the dugouts on the narrow touchline. The home of Marine���s team of part-timers in the eighth division of English football will be a More coronavirus relief on the way for small businesses 01/08/2021 10:33am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For Nancy Sinoway, a second coronavirus relief loan would increase the chances that her dressmaking business will survive. ���I could use it for marketing, for new samples. I could use it as a lifeline,��� says Sinoway, who designs and makes dresses for occasions like weddings and Head of Chinese bank behind foreign building spree jailed 01/08/2021 09:00am • BEIJING (AP) ��� The former chairman of the main Chinese state bank behind Beijing's initiative to build railways and ports across dozens of Asian countries has been sentenced to life in prison on corruption charges, a court announced. Hu Huaibang was sentenced Thursday after being convicted of taki Man City owner buys oldest surviving FA Cup trophy 01/08/2021 08:01am • MANCHESTER, England (AP) ��� The owner of Manchester City has bought the oldest surviving FA Cup trophy, which the club won in 1904 for the first piece of silverware in its history. The cup ��� used in the competition from 1896-1910 ��� had been removed from the National Football Museum in Mancheste Do You Really Skip a Payment When Refinancing? 01/08/2021 12:00am • When you finalize your mortgage refinance, you might be surprised to find out that you don't need to make your next scheduled loan payment. You don't skip out on paying the amount, but your payment due date will shift off schedule in the refinancing process. Here's what happens when you refinance a What Parents Should Know About Children and Taxes 01/08/2021 12:00am • If you ever wish you could get your kids to help out more around the house, at least they do their part when it comes to tax time. Which is fair. You give your kids shelter; the least they can do is act as a tax shelter. In other words, play your cards right, and your kids may help you reduce your MATCHDAY: Bayern plays Gladbach; Liverpool cup game in doubt 01/07/2021 07:03pm • A look at what���s happening around European soccer on Friday: GERMANY Borussia M��nchengladbach hopes to take advantage of Bayern Munich���s defensive frailties. Bayern has conceded first in each of its last eight Bundesliga games and uncharacteristically let in 21 goals in 14 league games so far. US long-term mortgage rates hit new lows; 30-year at 2.65% 01/07/2021 11:25am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� U.S. long-term mortgage rates declined this week to new record lows for the first week of 2021. The year opens against the continuing backdrop of damage from the coronavirus pandemic on the U.S. and global economies, which suppressed home loan rates through most of 2020. Mortgag Editorial Roundup: US 01/07/2021 10:53am • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Jan. 6 The Washington Post on the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: President Trump's refusal to accept his election defeat and his relentless incitement of his supporters led Wednesday to the unthinkable: an assault on the U.S. Ca Messi finds playmaking partner in 18-year-old Pedri 01/07/2021 10:52am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ��� When Lionel Messi links up with teenage teammate Pedro ���Pedri��� Gonz��lez, good things happen for Barcelona. Twice in just over three weeks, Pedri has given Messi reason to smile after setting him up with spectacular assists. The versatile midfielder deftly rolled his bo Brazilian women head to Argentina to avoid abortion ban 01/07/2021 09:38am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� With her 21st birthday fast approaching, Sara left the home she shares with her mother for her first trip on a plane. She didn���t tell her family the real reason she���d taken out a loan for 5,000 Brazilian reais ($1,000). Two days later and several hundred miles away, a 25