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Thursday's Transactions 01/18/2024 10:30pm • BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX ��� Named Andrew Bailey pitching coach, Andy Fox first base coach and Kyle Hudson third base coach. DETROIT TIGERS ��� Designated 3B Tyler Nevin for assignment. Claimed RHP Devin Sweet off waivers from San Francisco. KANSAS CITY ROYALS �� Biden visits North Carolina, a state he hopes to win in November, to promote internet access 01/18/2024 09:32pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled $82 million for North Carolina to help connect 16,000 new households and businesses to high-speed internet, delivering an election-year pitch about policies he says are "just getting started��� at improving the United States. Biden, the DC residents find dream home in new affordable housing development 01/18/2024 08:10pm • The big chunk of land in Northwest D.C. that sat vacant right across from the Shaw-Howard University Metro station for decades has now been turned into a mixed-use development that, on Thursday, the city officially cut the ribbon on. ���We engaged the community early and often, and we were ab Why I Don't Regret Retiring by FIRE 01/18/2024 07:00pm • At the age of 33, Mathew Pezon of Easton, Pennsylvania, achieved FIRE, which stands for financial independence, retire early. The FIRE movement involves saving enough to step away from a job before the age of 66 or 67, which for many is the full retirement age for Social Security benefits. In Pezon' Boost for homebuyers: Average long-term mortgage rate falls to 6.6%, lowest level since May 01/18/2024 05:34pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell this week to its lowest level since May, welcome news for prospective homebuyers facing rising home prices and intense competition for relatively few properties on the market. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage dropped to 6.6% fr Three months after former reality TV star sentenced for fraud, her ex-boyfriend is also accused 01/18/2024 03:53pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A former professional basketball player whose ex-girlfriend was sentenced to prison last year for fraud is now facing his own federal indictment, accusing him of falsifying applications for pandemic relief loans. The indictment of Lorenzo Gordon, 40, comes three months after his f Japan's Sekisui House buying Denver-based homebuilder M.D.C. Holdings for $4.9 billion 01/18/2024 02:45pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Japan's Sekisui House Ltd. is buying Denver-based homebuilder M.D.C. Holdings Inc. for $4.9 billion in a deal that would make the Japanese company the fifth-largest builder of new homes in the U.S. The companies said Thursday that they reached a definitive agreement for Osaka-ba Florida Senate passes bills seeking to expand health care availability 01/18/2024 02:29pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ��� Florida will seek to streamline regulations and offer incentives to help make health care more accessible under two bills unanimously passed by the Senate, votes that quickly pushed forward Republican Senate President Kathleen Passidomo's top session priority. The bills pa Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 01/18/2024 01:13pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov States expand low-interest loan programs for farms, businesses and new housing 01/18/2024 12:22pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� On the first business day of the new year, Missouri Treasurer Vivek Malek began accepting applications for about $120 million of state-subsidized, low-interest loans to small businesses, farmers and affordable housing developers. Within six hours, Malek had so many reque Spanish soccer club wins ruling against 'overweight' player who sought $5M from terminated contract 01/18/2024 12:18pm • SEVILLE, Spain (AP) ��� Sevilla has won a legal case against a former player at sport's highest court, which ruled that it was justified in terminating the contract of defender Joris Gnagnon for being consistently overweight after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spanish club said Thursday. The former Fra Lionel Messi lit up the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Now it is Akram Afif's turn to shine at Asian Cup 01/18/2024 10:38am • DOHA, Qatar (AP) ��� Lionel Messi lit up the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Now it is Akram Afif's turn to shine at home. Just over a year on from Messi's triumph, and with Qatar hosting another major tournament, the country has a star of its own at the Asian Cup. Afif has scored three goals in his openi High-speed, high-scoring Lo��s Openda and Leipzig aim to end Leverkusen's unbeaten run 01/18/2024 07:13am • DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) ��� Confidence is the key ingredient in Lo��s Openda's recipe for becoming one of soccer's global superstars. Talent, speed and boundless self-belief have set Leipzig's Belgian striker on a rapid rise through European soccer. As a child, Openda once dreamed of playing like The Supreme Court wrestles with major challenges to the power of federal regulators 01/18/2024 07:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Conservative Supreme Court justices on Wednesday voiced support for weakening the power of federal regulators, but it was not clear whether a majority would overturn a precedent that has guided American law for four decades over everything from the safety of food and drugs to env Ivan Toney returns from soccer gambling ban with a fresh outlook and desperate to make amends 01/18/2024 12:06am • First there was anger, then there was self-pity, then came a period of introspection. Soon enough, Ivan Toney was gripped by a desire to make amends and become the best striker in England. Toney went through a range of emotions while serving an eight-month ban for breaching betting rules that, as he