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Review: 'Afterlife of the Party' is high-concept comfort food on Netflix 09/03/2021 02:19pm • After the success of "Lady Bird," "Eighth Grade" and "CODA," the bar for coming-of-age stories is set high. But if you want some mindless comfort food with a high-concept fantasy premise where you can predict almost everything, "Afterlife of the Party" drops on Netflix this Friday. It follows 5 steps to turn your side gig into a full-fledged business 09/03/2021 07:00am • In 2017, Courtney Lynn Ottrix started blogging about things to do in Cleveland. She’d done some freelancing in the past, and the blog offered occasional opportunities for income. But two years later, when her full-time position was eliminated, Ottrix suddenly found herself self-employed. “I had Young Africans struggle with jobs, education amid pandemic 09/03/2021 02:28am • HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The future looked promising for Tinashe Mapuranga, an intern at a leading bank in Zimbabwe who appeared set to get a staff position as soon as he completed his college degree. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Amid the lockdowns, the 24-year-old was one of the first to be The Latest: Bidens visit wounded troops at Walter Reed 09/03/2021 12:12am • WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited injured U.S. troops at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday night. There are 15 Marines at the hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington, who were wounded in an Aug. 26 suicide bombing at the Kabul US hospitals hit with nurse staffing crisis amid COVID 09/02/2021 10:55pm • The COVID-19 pandemic has created a nurse staffing crisis that is forcing many U.S. hospitals to pay top dollar to get the help they need to handle the crush of patients this summer. The problem, health leaders say, is twofold: Nurses are quitting or retiring, exhausted or demoralized by the crisis. Leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Palestinians meet in Cairo 09/02/2021 05:07pm • CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president held talks in Cairo on Thursday with the King of Jordan and the president of the Palestinian Authority aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process and strengthening a ceasefire that halted the Israel-Hamas war. Egypt's Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, King Abdullah II o Mortgage rates unchanged from last week, remain under 3% 09/02/2021 11:08am • McLEAN, Va. (AP) — The average long-term mortgage rate was unchanged from last week as the economy continues to show encouraging signs even as hospitalizations from the delta variant of the coronavirus remain elevated. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate for a 30-year mo How to minimize credit damage from medical bills 09/02/2021 07:00am • If you’re facing big bills from COVID-19 or other medical issues and you’re worried about your credit, keep this in mind: Your credit score can recover if it is badly damaged, but there are no such guarantees about your health. “To some extent you’ll have to balance your health versus your Leader says Belarus expects big shipment of Russian weapons 09/01/2021 09:52pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The authoritarian leader of Belarus said Wednesday that the country will soon receive a large batch of Russian weapons, including dozens of combat jets, helicopters and top-of-the-line air defense missile systems. President Alexander Lukashenko announced the expected acquisiti Couple convicted in $18M COVID-19 relief scam now on the run 09/01/2021 09:48pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles couple who were convicted of helping steal $18 million in COVID-19 relief funds are on the lam after cutting off their ankle monitors, the FBI said. Richard Ayvazyan, 43, and his wife, Marietta Terabelian, 37, are considered fugitives, an FBI tweet said Tuesday. Th Auto maker Stellantis will fill gap by buying a finance arm 09/01/2021 07:38pm • AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) — Automaker Stellantis NV, which was formed earlier this year by a merger involving Fiat Chrysler, said Wednesday it will pay $285 million for an auto-finance company to provide loans and leases to customers through its dealers. Netherlands-based Stellantis said it will pa LAFC loans MLS top goal-scorer Diego Rossi to Fenerbahçe 09/01/2021 04:25pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles FC has loaned high-scoring forward Diego Rossi to Fenerbahçe in Turkey's top division. The MLS club announced the move Wednesday to part ways with the winner of last season's Golden Boot as the league's top goal-scorer. The 23-year-old Rossi has been a key part of L EPL landscape altered as clubs spend $1.4 billion in window 09/01/2021 02:56pm • Bulging squads. Unhappy players. Perhaps a new title favorite. And, of course, Cristiano Ronaldo. One of the most exciting transfer windows for years has closed, with spending in the Premier League again topping 1 billion pounds (about $1.4 billion) during the pandemic and high-profile players like ‘Last mile’ solution for Brazilian favela born from pandemic 09/01/2021 02:23pm • SAO PAULO (AP) — Workers in Brazil’s biggest city unloaded an air fryer, a gaming chair and a 40-inch television from a truck and carried them into a small distribution center where they'd soon be sent to nearby homes. Their speedy dispatch would be nothing special in most of Sao Paulo. But the Carter-Vickers, Palmer-Brown, Gioacchini loaned to new teams 09/01/2021 01:54pm • American defenders Cameron Carter-Vickers and Erik Palmer-Brown, and forward Nicholas Gioacchini were loaned before Europe's summer transfer window closed. Carter-Vickers was sent to Scotland's Glasgow Celtic from England's Tottenham Hotspur on a season-long loan Tuesday. The Scottish team said it h