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Amazon HQ2 update in Arlington includes rising floors, growing community partnerships 11/17/2021 11:10pm • High-rise towers in Arlington, Virginia, for Amazon’s HQ2 are taking shape, while community engagement and ground-level work also advance at the Metropolitan Park site. “Earlier this week, we began excavation of the park space,” said Jeff King, of Clark Construction. King gave the up Biden's nominee for bank regulator faces hostile opposition 11/17/2021 02:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A fierce battle is being waged in Washington over President Biden's choice to lead a typically low-profile agency that oversees the banking industry. Saule Omarova, 55, was nominated in September to be the nation’s next comptroller of the currency. If confirmed, she would be the The catch with buy now, pay later could be your credit 11/17/2021 07:00am • Buy now, pay later, or BNPL, is a payment plan that lets you break up your total purchase at checkout into a series of smaller installments. Though these plans aren’t new, they’ve recently catapulted into the mainstream, with major U.S. retailers like Amazon, Walmart and Target now offering them Federal Student Loan Servicing Changes 11/17/2021 12:00am • Student loan servicers handle billing and other services on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, and they work directly with borrowers to assist them in repaying their student loans. If you have federal student loans, you might have heard about some changes coming to federal student loan serv Fugitive COVID loan scammers sentenced to federal prison 11/16/2021 08:49pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles couple who were convicted of trying to steal $20 million in COVID-19 relief funds were sentenced to years in federal prison, although they remain fugitives. Richard Ayvazyan, 43, was sentenced Monday in absentia to 17 years and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, 37, go Relative of elderly victim testifies at Texas murder trial 11/16/2021 05:53pm • DALLAS (AP) — One of the 18 older women a man is charged with killing in the Dallas area over a two-year span ran a restaurant in Vietnam before leaving on a helicopter as Saigon fell and was a generous person who loved giving people $2 bills, her son-in-law testified Tuesday. “My mother-in-law Infrastructure bill unleashes funding to address risky dams 11/16/2021 02:57pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — States will soon be flooded with federal money to address a pent-up need to repair, improve or remove thousands of aging dams across the U.S., including some that could inundate towns or neighborhoods if they fail. The roughly $3 billion for dam-related projects pales in UK labor market 'resilient' despite end of salary program 11/16/2021 07:19am • LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England is one step closer to raising interest rates next month, analysts said Tuesday after official figures showed that the end of the British government's salary support program for workers during the coronavirus pandemic has not yet led to the feared increase in unemp Q&A: Rodney A. Brooks on Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap 11/16/2021 12:00am • In "Fixing the Racial Wealth Gap," Rodney A. Brooks notes that the net worth of the average white family is $171,000 while the net worth of an average Black family is $17,150, according to the Brookings Institute. It's a stark figure -- one that Brooks, a lifelong financial journalist and regular U Steffen displaces Turner as top US keeper, starts at Jamaica 11/15/2021 08:15pm • KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Zack Steffen is in quite an unusual position: The No. 2 goalkeeper with Manchester City is No. 1 with the United States. New England's Matt Turner started the first five U.S. qualifiers, and Steffen took over for the 2-1 win over Costa Rica last month. Steffen made a pair Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity 11/15/2021 01:07pm • SAN DIEGO (AP) — It’s a hidden crisis that has existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families. That estimate by Feedin MATCHDAY: Italy's World Cup spot on the line in group finale 11/14/2021 01:16pm • A look at what’s happening in World Cup qualifying in Europe on Monday: GROUP C Four years after failing to qualify for the World Cup, European champion Italy needs a strong performance at Northern Ireland to be sure of a spot at next year’s tournament in Qatar. The Azzurri lead Switzerland on g Biden bill would give local news outlets 'shot in the arm' 11/13/2021 09:09am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion social spending bill includes a provision that, if it becomes law, would mark the first time the federal government has offered targeted support in response to the decline of local news. The help would come in the form of a payroll tax credi OAS assembly condemns Nicaragua's election as 'not free' 11/12/2021 10:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The General Assembly of the Organization of American States voted Friday to condemn Nicaragua’s Nov. 7 presidential vote, saying the elections “were not free, fair or transparent, and lack democratic legitimacy.” Twenty-five countries in the Americas voted in favor of the re Poor Mississippi county celebrates rural hospital reopening 11/12/2021 07:59pm • MARKS, Miss. (AP) — For the past five years, anybody who broke a leg, had a heart attack or came down with appendicitis in rural Quitman County, Mississippi, had to be driven at least 30 minutes to the east or west to get the kind of medical attention they needed. The only hospital in Quitman Coun