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Resources to help minority-owned small businesses thrive 09/17/2021 02:28pm • This content is provided by TD Bank. Owning a small business offers the advantages of creative freedom, flexibility and the personal satisfaction of following your dreams. And for many minority business owners, the prospect of giving back to and investing in communities of color is worth the risk North Macedonia: Protest in Tetovo for deadly hospital fire 09/17/2021 01:03pm • SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Hundreds of protesters in the North Macedonian city of Tetovo on Friday called for the resignation of officials in the wake of last week's fire that destroyed a COVID-19 field hospital, killed 14 people and injured a dozen more. The protest was organized by victims' McAuliffe, Youngkin clash over abortion, COVID in 1st debate 09/16/2021 11:44pm • GRUNDY, Va. (AP) — Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin clashed over abortion and vaccination policies Thursday in Virginia’s first gubernatorial debate of the general election season, as each sought to cast the other as extreme. The candidates in the closely watched rac Idled Thai taxis go green with mini-gardens on car roofs 09/16/2021 09:22pm • BANGKOK (AP) — Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots. Workers from two taxi cooperatives assembled the miniature gardens this week using black plastic garb Emerging stronger will take more loans and grants for DC small businesses 09/16/2021 02:36pm • This content is sponsored by Wells Fargo. The resiliency of millions of small businesses across the U.S. has been deeply tested as the pandemic lingers. With a focus on keeping small businesses open, Wells Fargo continues to provide access to vital capital and resources needed to weather the fina Mortgage rates dip lower this week; 30-year loan at 2.86% 09/16/2021 02:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term mortgage rates dipped lower this week as economic prospects continued muted amid a wave of new delta variant coronavirus cases. They remained under 3%. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate for a 30-year mortgage edged down to 2.86% Youngkin lends millions more to his gubernatorial campaign 09/16/2021 12:10pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Virginia gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin each raised similarly staggering amounts of money in the last two months. But Youngkin gave his campaign a significant boost by lending his campaign an additional $4.5 million. The most recent campa 'New' Van Gogh drawing to go on display in Amsterdam museum 09/16/2021 09:59am • AMSTERDAM (AP) — A drawing newly attributed to Vincent van Gogh that has never been displayed publicly before is going on show at the Amsterdam museum that bears the Dutch master's name. The “new” Van Gogh, "Study for ‘Worn Out,’” from November 1882, is part of a Dutch private collection American coach Jesse Marsch endures tough start at Leipzig 09/16/2021 09:39am • DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — Lots of drama, not many wins. That's the story so far under new American coach Jesse Marsch at German soccer club Leipzig. Leipzig played its part in one of the most entertaining Champions League games of the season so far when Christopher Nkunku scored a hat trick in a Once-amateur boxing world championships to offer prize money 09/16/2021 08:34am • LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The boundary between amateur and professional boxing blurred further Thursday with the International Boxing Association offering prize money of up to $100,000 for the first time at the historically amateur men's world championships. AIBA said a total prize fund of $2.6 Spanish clubs relieved to resume La Liga after CL turmoil 09/16/2021 06:24am • BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Antoine Griezmann jeered. Sergi Roberto booed. Sevilla thankful it drew with a team from Austria. Spanish teams used to look forward to the end of summer and the return of the Champions League. Not this time. Of five Spanish teams, Real Madrid was the only one that could ma With foreign funds frozen, Afghan aid groups stuck in limbo 09/16/2021 02:04am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A month after the fall of Kabul, the world is still wrestling with how to help Afghanistan’s impoverished people without propping up their Taliban leaders — a question that grows more urgent by the day. With the Afghan government severed from the internati 4 Common Myths International Students Have About U.S. Colleges 09/16/2021 12:00am • Paraguay national Yamily Villalba Paredes says she never felt dissuaded from applying to U.S. colleges and universities based on anything she had heard. When she arrived in the U.S. as an international student during the Trump administration, her views slightly changed. Paredes says former Presiden 8 Signs of a Bad Credit Card 09/16/2021 12:00am • If you're new to credit or you're working on rebuilding your credit after receiving some negative marks, a credit card can be a great way to establish a positive credit history. As long as you use the card responsibly and pay your bill on time and in full every month, you can build credit without p Asian shares mostly lower on lackluster China, Japan data 09/15/2021 11:18pm • Stocks were mostly lower in Asia on Thursday after Japan and China released data that were weaker than expected. Shares fell in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul but rose in Sydney. Japan reported that its exports rose 26.2% in August from a year earlier, but that was well below forecasts for a