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New boost for minority businesses in underserved communities 02/09/2021 11:41am • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Small minority-owned businesses have often struggled to gain access to capital and other tools to grow, a challenge made more daunting by the economic upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic. But a new effort announced Tuesday aims to address those disparities in pockets of the nat 2021's Top First-Time Homebuyer Programs in Maryland 02/09/2021 12:00am • You've saved up for a home for years, but even with low mortgage rates, you worry about affording both the down payment and the monthly costs that come with homeownership. If you live in Maryland -- where the homeownership rate is 67%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau -- know that owning a home Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, will accept as payment soon 02/08/2021 10:00pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Holders of Bitcoin may be able to cash in some of their investment in the digital currency for a brand new electric car. Electric automaker Tesla said Monday that it has invested around $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and it plans to begin accepting the digital currency as paymen New York's high court ends state case against Paul Manafort 02/08/2021 07:49pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Manafort won’t face mortgage fraud charges in New York after the state’s highest court declined to revisit lower court decisions that barred prosecuting Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman on double jeopardy grounds. The New York Court of Appeals decision last week c Florida man charged with COVID relief fraud 02/08/2021 07:05pm • ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man received more than $7.2 million in coronavirus relief funds after concocting hundreds of nonexistent employees on loan applications, federal prosecutors said. A federal grand jury in Orlando handed down an indictment last week against Don Cisternino, 45, of Chulu American midfielder Booth on loan to Austrian's St Pölten 02/08/2021 03:37pm • American midfielder Taylor Booth went on loan Monday from Bayern Munich to Austria's St. Pölten. The 19-year-old had made two appearances this season for Bayern Munich II in the German third tier. Bayern said Booth had been to St. Pollen for a trial in recent days. Born in Eden, Utah, Booth joined ECB's Lagarde: Pandemic continues to threaten economy 02/08/2021 12:22pm • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The head of the European Central Bank says the winter surge in COVID-19 cases and the emergence of mutated variants of the virus pose a “significant downside risk” to the economy despite hope from the start of vaccinations. ECB President Christine Lagarde told a sessi Guardiola's patient approach pays off with flourishing Foden 02/08/2021 10:05am • Pep Guardiola had only just arrived at Manchester City in the summer of 2016 when he was told he had a generational talent on his hands in Phil Foden. Then the Spaniard witnessed it with his own eyes. “We saw something special. Unique,” Guardiola recalled about the day Foden — then a precociou Divided Ecuador heads to presidential runoff ballot in April 02/08/2021 12:28am • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador is headed to a runoff presidential election in April with its deep political divisions evident after the first round of voting, which saw a young leftist backed by a convicted-but-popular former president lead the field of 16 candidates while the second slot remained How to Choose Your Tax Filing Status 02/08/2021 12:00am • On the surface, it may seem like the easiest part of your income tax form to fill out, aside from your name and address. At the top of the 1040 tax form, there are instructions that read: Filing status. Check only one box. The choices are: -- Single.-- Married filing jointly.-- Married filing separ 10 Remote Summer Jobs for College Students 02/08/2021 12:00am • Find a remote summer job to pay for college.The coronavirus pandemic pushed many companies to send employees home to work remotely as safety became a top priority. As a result, many college students who typically might have landed a part-time job waiting tables or an in-person internship were left h Leftist leads in early returns for Ecuador presidential vote 02/07/2021 10:03pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A young leftist backed by a convicted-but-popular former president led the field of 16 candidates in early returns from Ecuador’s presidential election Sunday, which was held under strict sanitary measures due to the coronavirus pandemic. Andrés Arauz, who is supported by In winter's quiet, Belarus opposition prepares new protests 02/07/2021 04:46am • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Winter's cold and harsh police actions in Belarus have put a chill on the protests against President Alexander Lukashenko that gripped the Eastern European nation for months. But opposition forces are preparing to turn up the heat in the spring and observers say Lukashenko doe MATCHDAY: Man City visits stumbling EPL champion Liverpool 02/06/2021 07:00pm • A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Sunday: ENGLAND Manchester City can take a giant step toward the Premier League title with a win at stumbling titleholder Liverpool. With second-placed Manchester United only drawing Everton 3-3 on Saturday, City holds a two-point lead with two game El Salvador kept paying DC lobbyist after claim he was fired 02/06/2021 03:58pm • MIAMI (AP) — Washington lobbyist Robert Stryk continued working for El Salvador’s government even after the country’s president claimed he had annulled a $450,000 contract that had caused a wave of criticism in the poor Central American country, according to newly filed foreign lobbying record