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How Do My Chase Plan and My Chase Loan Work? 11/13/2025 07:00pm • Chase offers creative payment and borrowing options for credit card holders: Chase Pay Over Time -- originally called My Chase Plan -- and My Chase Loan. Chase Pay Over Time is a version of buy now, pay later, or BNPL, while My Chase Loan allows cardholders to borrow against their available credit l We're Not Gonna Take It: You Don't Have to Accept That Processing Fee a Credit Card Company Wants to Charge Your Business  11/13/2025 07:00pm • The small portion of each credit card sale that your business pays toward processing costs can add up to thousands each year. Although credit card fees are a cost of doing business, they aren't set in stone. Payment processor markups and unclear pricing models can inflate your credit card processing Families brace for continued gaps in Head Start service despite government reopening 11/13/2025 04:53pm • Vital federal funding is on the way for Head Start centers that were thrown into crisis by the government shutdown, but it could take time before some children who rely on the federal program can return to preschool. Some centers that missed out on federal payments had to furlough staff. Others had Montgomery County expands program to address 'SNAP Gap' 11/13/2025 04:44pm • For the last year, 500 working families in Montgomery County, Maryland, who didn't qualify for federal food assistance, but were "on the cusp of hunger," got needed help from MC Groceries. Now that number is expanding to 700 families, according to Heather Bruskin, the director of the Montgomery C Workers turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation 11/13/2025 04:39pm • NEW YORK (AP) — As workers face frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs, some have decided to branch out from their traditional careers. They're taking on side jobs to bring in additional income and provide a backup plan should they find themselves out of work, or adding second, third and s For DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival, closure of Dulles Expo Center is bittersweet goodbye 11/13/2025 03:22pm • The DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival is taking place this weekend in Chantilly, Virginia, giving a platform for 200 small businesses to show off what they have to offer to thousands of people. But this year's chocolatey festival is bittersweet. It's the last time the event will be held at the A truck hits pedestrians at a market in South Korea, killing 2 and injuring 18 11/13/2025 01:57pm • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A truck plowed into pedestrians at an outdoor market in South Korea on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 18, officials said. The two people were pronounced dead at a hospital following the incident shortly before 11 a.m. in Bucheon city, near the capital of Seoul. Cash App's Moneybot might know your spending habits better than you do 11/13/2025 01:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine if your bank could move money for you with only the slightest of digital nods for your approval. Or that could tell you that you’re overspending but more importantly know how to address that overspending and put you on better financial footing. That’s what you’ll get The unprecedented government shutdown will weigh on a US economy already under stress 11/13/2025 12:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The six-week government shutdown that came to an end late Wednesday will be another drag on an economy already facing many challenges, though the full impact will take months to measure. About 1.25 million federal workers haven't been paid since Oct. 1. Roughly 10,000 flights hav Things to do in the DC area: Four Seasons DC Wine & Dine, Mezcal With Friends … and more! 11/13/2025 05:15am • An exceptional food and wine experience is uniting with philanthropy at the Four Seasons in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood this week. The fourth annual Four Seasons D.C. Wine & Dine event spans two days with a cocktail reception and a seated dinner with the goal to benefit cancer research at Med An expert says do something kind on World Kindness Day 11/13/2025 02:37am • Thursday is World Kindness Day. People celebrate it by performing acts of kindness which can range from something simple like giving a person a parking space, to volunteering, to sending a note or calling a friend. The legendary musician Glen Campbell was singing about kindness during the turbule Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communities 11/13/2025 01:21am • ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania's semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did not have a house connected to the electricity grid. After sunset, she would turn to smoky oil lamps that provided the on Indian government calls deadly car blast a terror attack by 'anti-national forces' 11/12/2025 09:20pm • SRINAGAR, India (AP) — India’s Cabinet on Wednesday called this week’s deadly car explosion in the capital a terror attack carried out by “anti-national forces,” though it did not release any new evidence linked to the blast. Earlier Wednesday, authorities said several suspects had been ar Tribes that restored buffalo are killing some to feed people because of the shutdown 11/12/2025 07:01pm • WOLF POINT, Mont. (AP) — On the open plains of the Fort Peck Reservation, Robert Magnan leaned out the window of his truck, set a rifle against the door frame and then “pop!" — a bison tumbled dead in its tracks. Magnan and a co-worker shot two more bison, also known as buffalo, and quickly fi Vaccines You Need Before Traveling 11/12/2025 07:00pm • In 2024, Dianne Elliot took a three-week, seven-country trip that included stops in the United Kingdom, Egypt, India, Cambodia, Jordan, Indonesia and Oman. Some of those countries require specific vaccinations for entry. Others have no requirements, but because of disease outbreaks and endemic disea