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Navigating the SMB landscape — resources, staffing, artificial intelligence and more — across the DMV 08/24/2023 04:29pm • What’s the current landscape look like for small businesses in our region? What’s positive? And what’s perhaps not so positive? WTOP Business Reporter Jeff Clabaugh finds out in his discussion with Jack McDougle, president and CEO of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, and Alex Austin, p The return of Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee is a boon for US gymnastics. It's created a logjam, too 08/24/2023 03:55pm • SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Joscelyn Roberson's always had her eye on the 2024 Olympics. The math just sort of worked. The Texan is going to be 18 next summer, an age long considered an athletic sweet spot for elite female gymnasts, at least in the United States. Each of the six American women to beco T-Mobile will lay off 5,000 employees, or about 7% of its workforce, in the coming weeks 08/24/2023 01:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday it plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or about 7% of its workforce. In email to employees shared in a regulatory filing, CEO Michael Sievert said the layoffs would come over the next five weeks and impact T-Mobile workers across the country — particu Alex Murdaugh friend pleads guilty to helping steal from dead maid's family 08/24/2023 12:04pm • KINGSTREE, S.C. (AP) — Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh 's old college buddy has pleaded guilty to a second set of charges for helping the disgraced South Carolina attorney steal millions of dollars of insurance settlements from the sons of Murdaugh’s dead housekeeper. Cory Fleming, a 54-year-ol Shein and Forever 21 team up in hopes of expanding reach of both fast-fashion retailers 08/24/2023 11:38am • NEW YORK (AP) — Fast fashion retailers Shein and Forever 21 are going into business together. Under a partnership agreement announced Thursday, the Chinese-founded Shein will acquire about one-third interest in Sparc Group, Forever 21's operator. Sparc will also become a minority shareholder in Sh Thirsty Thursday? How midweek and weekend Virginia booze sales stack up 08/24/2023 10:24am • If you don't like lines, Thursday may be a better day than Saturday to shop for booze in Virginia. Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority has released its fiscal year 2023 sales results, and Saturday is still the biggest day for sales. Saturday sales at the state's 339 ABC stores totale Regulator's review of over 30 Swiss banks finds shortcomings in money-laundering controls 08/24/2023 07:28am • GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland's financial markets authority said Thursday that an in-depth review of more than 30 banks conducted this spring found that “a large number" failed to meet basic requirements for analyzing the risk of money laundering. The authority, known as FINMA, said the review was UK political watchdog says Prime Minister Rishi Sunak 'inadvertently' broke ethics rules 08/24/2023 04:39am • LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was chided by Parliament’s standards guardian on Thursday for failing to declare his wife’s financial interest in a childcare firm that stood to benefit from government policy. Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg said Sunak broke the code of California may pay unemployment to striking workers. But the fund to cover it is already insolvent 08/24/2023 01:05am • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Southern California's summer of discontent — marked by a series of work stoppages from hotels to Hollywood — has inspired labor-supporting Democrats in the state Legislature to try and change the law so striking workers can get unemployment checks while they picket fo The first 2024 Republican presidential debate is in the books. Here's what happened 08/24/2023 12:19am • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Follow along for live updates on the first 2024 Republican presidential debate. The field's early front-runner, Donald Trump, skipped the event and conducted an interview with Tucker Carlson instead. What to know — GOP candidates tangle in Milwaukee as they vie to be the l Signs return to Tennessee statehouse grounds after judge blocks new House GOP rule 08/23/2023 10:49pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A judge ruled to let people bring signs back into the Tennessee House's hearings on Wednesday, followed hours later by more disarray during a committee debate on allowing more guns into schools in a special session in reaction to a deadly Nashville school shooting in March. Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order and says all its property will be confiscated 08/23/2023 08:45pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s government on Wednesday declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and ordered the confiscation of all its property. The move comes one week after the government of President Daniel Ortega confiscated the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua, argu Oil production boosts government income in New Mexico, as legislators build savings 'bridge' 08/23/2023 08:39pm • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Record-breaking oil production in New Mexico is likely to provide state government with a new multibillion-dollar surplus during the upcoming budget year, economists for the state announced Wednesday. Annual state general fund income would increase to $13 billion for the fisc What's the difference between a pension plan and a 401(k)? 08/23/2023 08:00pm • When you're ready to retire, you'll want to have more than Social Security to pay the bills. Those benefits typically only provide enough money to replace about 40% of average earnings. Covering the rest is up to you. "There are two types of ways you can pay for retirement (through the workplace) How to Save Money for Your Kids 08/23/2023 08:00pm • Starting a family almost always means parents will need to make adjustments to their finances. From buying birthday presents to paying fees for extracurricular activities, raising kids can be costly. "If you look at the cost of college, that number is pretty staggering," says Kara Duckworth, certifi