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EU aims to release virus recovery fund billions by summer 02/12/2021 05:54am • BRUSSELS (AP) — Top European Union officials on Friday urged member countries to swiftly submit plans for how they would use their share of the bloc's massive coronavirus recovery fund so that the sorely-needed money can be released starting this summer. The call came as the officials signed an ag How a leading anti-Trump group ignored a crisis in its ranks 02/11/2021 09:01pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Last June, the Lincoln Project was on a high. Led by several prominent former Republican consultants, its slickly produced ads attacking President Donald Trump made it perhaps the best known of the so-called Never Trump organizations. The group tried to claim a higher moral groun Chelsea, Southampton reach FA Cup quarterfinals 02/11/2021 06:03pm • LONDON (AP) — Tammy Abraham put Chelsea into the FA Cup quarterfinals by scoring the second-half winner in a 1-0 victory over second-tier club Barnsley, which missed several chances to stage an upset. Abraham tapped in from close range in the 64th minute after a low cross from Reece James to set US long-term mortgage rates flat; 30-year stays at 2.73% 02/11/2021 01:57pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. long-term mortgage rates were flat this week for a second straight week. Home-loan rates stayed near record lows as the economy, especially in the services sector, remains burdened by the coronavirus pandemic. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average ra Bale's homecoming at Tottenham proving a major letdown 02/11/2021 08:03am • Complete with a flexed bicep emoji, Gareth Bale posted a seemingly encouraging fitness update to his 43.7 million followers on Instagram ahead of Tottenham’s final training session before an FA Cup match at Everton. “Good session today,” Bale wrote. Except it wasn’t. According to Tottenham m FA Cup: City on record winning run, Everton beats Spurs 5-4 02/10/2021 07:08pm • One of the most relentless schedules in the history of English soccer hasn’t stopped Manchester City putting together a record-setting run of wins. It’s 15 straight victories and counting for Pep Guardiola’s irrepressible team, which has another domestic treble in its sights. On an action-fill Miami man pleads guilty to using Covid loan for Lamborghini 02/10/2021 04:29pm • A South Florida man has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining $3.9 million in federal coronavirus loans and using some of the money to buy a Lamborghini Huracan. David Hines, of Miami, rubbed his forehead in apparent shame as he pleaded guilty to federal charges including bank fraud at a hearing Tax Day is Monday. Here's everything you need to know about filing your 2020 taxes 02/10/2021 09:56am • Okay, last call.Next Monday, May 17, is the official deadline for individuals to file their 2020 federal tax return, and in most instances their state tax return, too.It's a month later than usual, thanks to the pandemic. But the filing deadline's not the only thing that's changed. Many of the uphea EU lawmakers OK $815 billion recovery program 02/10/2021 06:57am • BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers on Wednesday approved a 672.5 billion euro ($815 billion) recovery package of loans and grants to help member nations recover more quickly from the coronavirus pandemic, but countries will not receive the money for several months. The European Parliament vo 5 Reasons to Keep Paying Federal Student Loans During the Pandemic 02/10/2021 12:00am • A lengthy reprieve from paying a student loan bill with no penalty? What could beat that? Last month, the Biden administration announced that coronavirus pandemic relief originally enacted under the CARES Act in March 2020 will be extended, giving most federal student loan borrowers additional bill MATCHDAY: Manchester City takes winning streak to Swansea 02/09/2021 06:55pm • A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Wednesday: ENGLAND Already in the League Cup final and with a commanding lead in the Premier League, Manchester City could be headed for another domestic treble as Pep Guardiola's team switches focus to the FA Cup and a fifth-round trip to second-ti American forward Llanez returns to US from Heerenveen 02/09/2021 06:38pm • American forward Ulysses Llanez has returned to the United States from the Netherlands “due to private circumstances,” his Dutch club Heerenveen of the Eredivisie said Tuesday. The 19-year-old from Lynwood, California, has appeared in five league matches this season but none since Dec. 23. The D Depleted Madrid wins postponed game, gets closer to Atlético 02/09/2021 06:33pm • MADRID (AP) — It was an assist by a left back on a goal by another left back that sealed Real Madrid's win in the Spanish league on Tuesday. Zinedine Zidane's team needed an unusual starting lineup to keep its momentum and cut Atlético Madrid's lead to five points, with Marcelo setting up Ferland Penguins tap Hextall as GM, Burke as president of hockey ops 02/09/2021 05:11pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ron Hextall's relationship with the Pittsburgh Penguins is complicated. His mandate as the team's new general manager is not. The Penguins hired Hextall on Tuesday to build a team capable of winning the Stanley Cup. Not in five years. Not in three years. This year. It's a level o Black farmers unconvinced by Vilsack's 'root out' racism vow 02/09/2021 04:47pm • BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — President Joe Biden's nomination of Tom Vilsack to lead the Agriculture Department received a chilly reaction from many Black farmers who contend he didn't do enough to help them the last time he had the job. Vilsack, a former Iowa governor who served eight years as agric