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China economy recovering but hampered by virus outbreaks 01/10/2023 01:28am • BEIJING (AP) — Wang Jian is anxious to get back to work teaching basketball to children now that China has lifted anti-COVID-19 restrictions. But his gym in the eastern city of Shenyang has been closed for a month because all its coaches are infected. The most optimistic forecasts say China's busi Israel's Netanyahu races ahead with hard-line agenda 01/10/2023 12:16am • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist agenda, including adopting a seemingly petty ban on displaying the Palestinian flag and shaking the foundations of Israel’s democracy with a proposed legal assault on the Supreme Court. After Monday's Transactions 01/09/2023 10:31pm • BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League Charles Simic, acclaimed poet adept at wordplay, dies at 84 01/09/2023 08:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84. The death of Simic, the country’s poet laureate from 2007-2008, was confirmed Monday by executive ed Rams' McVay weighing departure after his first poor season 01/09/2023 07:53pm • THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — The worst season by a defending Super Bowl champion in NFL history is finally over, and Sean McVay can catch his breath. The Los Angeles Rams will be holding their breath for the next few days — or weeks? — while they wait to learn whether McVay will join them on t How U.S. News Ranks the Best Jobs 01/09/2023 07:00pm • Career satisfaction is subjective. Creating high-profile marketing campaigns for hot products sounds like a perfect job to some people, while others dream of delivering healthy babies to excited new parents. Yet some career qualities are universally desired. Workers tend to prefer higher salaries, a 10 Tax Credits You May Qualify for This Year 01/09/2023 07:00pm • Tax season is upon us, and if you want to reduce how much you pay the government, you need to understand which tax credits you can claim. People shouldn't feel embarrassed if they don't understand tax credits. "This is an area of confusion," says Eric Bronnenkant, head of tax for online financial ad 7 Best Tech ETFs to Buy for 2023 01/09/2023 07:00pm • Energy led last year, but will tech lead going forward?While the energy sector was a success story in 2022, the performance of the tech sector was downright tragic. Among some of the biggest losers last year were once-loved names like chipmaker Nvidia Corp. (ticker: NVDA), electric vehicles icon Tes Monday's Transactions 01/09/2023 06:58pm • BASEBALL Major League Baseball National League EPA, pipeline operator reach deal to clean up Kansas spill 01/09/2023 06:57pm • MISSION, Kan. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with a pipeline operator to clean up a spill that dumped 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a rural Kansas creek. The agency said in a news release that the Dec. 7 rupture of the Key Multibillionaire Pritzker takes 2nd oath as Illinois gov 01/09/2023 05:46pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — J.B. Pritzker, the multibillionaire whose actions over the past year suggest he may be eyeing a run for president, was sworn in Monday as Illinois governor for the second time, an occasion the Democrat used to issue bold proposals for universal preschool and free college t Bill Gates considers W.Va. to expand nuclear energy efforts 01/09/2023 05:23pm • GLASGOW, W.Va. (AP) — Bill Gates is looking to West Virginia as he plans for the next phase of his effort to reboot U.S. nuclear energy technology: powering the east coast. Microsoft co-founder Gates, who visited a closed down coal-fired plant in Glasgow, West Virginia on Monday, said he needs Maryland college savings program says glitch fixed, but 'confusion' remains 01/09/2023 04:34pm • Parents are still having a difficult time accessing money they have saved in a Maryland college savings program, despite a claim by program administrators that a glitch has been fixed. "I still don't have any access to that money," said Brian Savoie, a father impacted by the problem. "I've been t Protesters demand justice for college student shot by police 01/09/2023 04:27pm • CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Expressing anger and frustration, several hundred protesters on Monday demanded justice for a Bangladeshi American college student who was shot and killed by police in the Boston suburb of Cambridge last week, a shooting that has drawn attention from Bangladeshi media. Saye Electric vehicles at CES give a peek at the future of battery-driven transportation 01/09/2023 12:50pm • If one were to stroll through the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, the venue that housed the Consumer Electronics Show’s behemoth automotive exhibition over the past few days, you’d be excused for thinking that all vehicles presently in circulation are electric. After all, pretty