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Why now is a crucial time to pay off credit card debt 02/06/2024 11:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For Americans who lacked savings prior to the pandemic, financial stress is rising. A combination of inflation, increased interest rates, and the end of pandemic-tied relief, such as the moratorium on student loan payments, has led to record credit card debt, experts say. In the f AstraZeneca will invest $300M in new Rockville manufacturing facility 02/06/2024 10:45am • AstraZeneca leased a building in Rockville and will invest $300 million in the new manufacturing facility. (Courtesy AstraZeneca) British drug giant AstraZeneca will invest $300 million in a new manufacturing facility in Rockville, Maryland, and create 150 new jobs. The building, completed in Biden is going small to try to win big in November. That means stops for boba tea, burgers and beer 02/06/2024 12:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Joe Biden is going small to try to win big in November. With 10 months to go until Election Day, the Democratic incumbent is all in on minimalist events ��� visits to a boba tea store, a family's kitchen and a barbershop, for example ��� rather than big rallies. Never U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter to have Sergi��o Dest in camp ahead of CONCACAF Nations League final four 02/05/2024 11:55pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter plans to have Sergi��o Dest at the team's training camp for the CONCACAF Nations League final four next month, even though the defender is suspended for the March 21 semifinal against Jamaica. The 23-year-old outside back lost his composure in a needless Justice Department proposes major changes to address disparities in state crime victim funds 02/05/2024 09:13pm • The Justice Department proposed changes Monday to rules governing state-run programs that provide financial assistance to violent crime victims in order to address racial disparities and curb the number of subjective denials of compensation. The proposal from the Justice Department's Office for Vict Service has been restored to east Arkansas town that went without water for more than 2 weeks 02/05/2024 06:53pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Water is again flowing in an Arkansas town that was without service for more than two weeks after below freezing temperatures hit the state, but officials say much work remains to be done to avoid another shortage to the aging local system. The Arkansas Department of Healt Ex-NFL quarterback Favre must finish repaying misspent welfare money, Mississippi auditor says 02/05/2024 06:42pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) ��� Mississippi's state auditor filed court papers Monday renewing his call for Brett Favre to repay the state for welfare money that the auditor says was improperly spent on projects backed by the retired NFL quarterback. Auditor Shad White's demand of nearly $730,000 from Favre De Rossi's dream start continues as Roma drubs Cagliari 4-0 in Serie A 02/05/2024 04:53pm • ROME (AP) ��� Lorenzo Pellegrini scored in the second minute and Paolo Dybala got a brace as Roma beat Cagliari 4-0 in Serie A on Monday to extend coach Daniele De Rossi���s dream start. Pellegrini���s goal, a close-range stab from a corner kick, was his third in three league games and helped to lif 'Coolest dictator' to 'philosopher king,' Nayib Bukele's path to reelection in El Salvador 02/05/2024 03:35pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� El Salvador���s Nayib Bukele has called himself the ���world���s coolest dictator��� or as his X profile read on election day, the ���Philosopher King.��� Now he���ll likely have five more years to provoke, surprise and raise concerns, after appearing to win a landslide reelecti DOJ says First National Bank discriminated against Black, Latino borrowers in North Carolina 02/05/2024 03:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� First National Bank of Pennsylvania discriminated against Black and Latino homebuyers in North Carolina for a period of at least four years, the Justice Department said Monday, the latest in a long list of banks who have been caught redlining. The Justice Department said FNB will Some Americans have become saddled with credit card debt as rent and everyday prices remain high 02/05/2024 12:07pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� While the U.S. economy is broadly healthy, pockets of Americans have run through their savings and run up their credit card balances after battling inflation for more than two years. Experts worry that members of these groups -- mostly lower- and middle-income Americans, who tend t As groundbreaking nears, massive Ellicott City tunnel plan could 'fix' flooding on Main Street 02/05/2024 08:52am • The devastation and disappointment in 2018 from the second "thousand year flood" in two years took its toll on residents and small business owners on Main Street in historic Ellicott City, Maryland, said Rep. John Sarbanes. "When that second storm hit, in the wake of it, I think many of them were This Week: Ford earnings, consumer borrowing and PepsiCo results 02/05/2024 01:00am • A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: SPORTLIGHT ON FORD Ford reports its fourth-quarter results Tuesday. Wall Street expects that the automaker will report that its earnings and revenue declined in the October-December quarter versus a year earlier. T Powell: Federal Reserve on track to cut rates this year with inflation slowing and economy healthy 02/04/2024 07:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Chair Jerome Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday night that the Federal Reserve remains on track to cut interest rates three times this year, a move that's expected to begin as early as May. Powell, in an interview recorded Thursday for the CBS news program ���60 Minutes Inzaghi takes another step toward his 1st Serie A title as Inter beats Juventus to go 4 points clear 02/04/2024 07:01pm • MILAN (AP) ��� Inter Milan's players joyously celebrated as if they had won the league. They might not have ��� yet ��� but coach Simone Inzaghi took a potentially decisive step toward his first Serie A title on Sunday. An own-goal by Bianconeri defender Federico Gatti in chaotic circumstances was e