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Gabriela Muñoz Lopez used to pay $300 to $400 per month on child care for her two kids, a 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son.Then, about a year ago, she says that monthly expense went away.Muñoz Lopez, 41, and her family qualify for free child care in New Mexico, which in 2022 expanded its child care assistance program to families earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level, or $106,600 for a family of three.For Muñoz Lopez, the savings every month means she has more money to put toward her kids, like for sports programs and other extra-curriculars. With her…

Longtime investor Leon Cooperman believes we are in the late innings of a bull market where bubbles can form and risks rise, a stage of the cycle that Warren Buffett had warned about.The chair and CEO of the Omega Family Office read a quote from the “Oracle of Omaha” on CNBC’s “Money Movers” Wednesday, which he said fits neatly with what he’s seeing right now.”Once a bull market gets under way, and once you reach the point where everybody has made money no matter what system he or she followed, a crowd is attracted into the game that is responding…

Arab and Muslim leaders can claim to have been duped into giving their backing to the plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump on Monday. The plan announced in Washington was substantially different to the one they agreed to in New York. But that is the charitable way of reading what they have done.  Betrayal is another word that comes to mind. A betrayal performed as a genocide is in full motion and which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been given a green light by Trump to continue. The Qataris are furious they were written out of a mediation role…

President of Microsoft North America Judson Althoff speaks on stage during We Day at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington, on April 23, 2015.Mat Hayward | Getty ImagesMicrosoft’s top-ranking sales leader, Judson Althoff, has been promoted to a bigger role as CEO of the company’s commercial business.Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, wrote in a memo on Wednesday that marketing and operations will move under Althoff’s organization. Most of Microsoft’s revenue comes from commercial offerings such as productivity software subscriptions and cloud-based Nvidia chips for running artificial intelligence models.”Our success depends on enabling commercial and public sector customers and partners to combine their human…

Kylian Mbappé has gotten off to a flying start for Real Madrid this season and is nudging ever closer to the luminaries at the summit of the UEFA Champions League all-time goal-scoring list.The prolific forward helped himself to a hat trick in his side’s 5-0 demolition of Kazakhstan’s Kairat Almaty to take his tally to five goals in just two games in Europe this season, swelling his career haul in the competition to 60 goals in total.Mbappé is now sixth in the official European Cup/Champions League all-time scoring chart, which only counts goals scored in the competition proper, not in…

Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, speaks at a company briefing in Redmond, Wash., on May 20, 2024. Microsoft unveiled a new category of PC that features generative artificial intelligence tools built into Windows, the company’s world-leading operating system.Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty ImagesMicrosoft said Wednesday that it will stop promoting a consumer subscription for artificial intelligence services and introduced a bundle blending AI features with traditional productivity apps.The software company introduced Copilot Pro at $20 per month in early 2024. Microsoft 365 Family, which allows for up to six users and 6…

Turkish football transfers used to be more of a punchline than a big news story.Player X is having a shocker today, he’ll be off to Turkey soon, etc. From Darius Vassell to Jonjo Shelvey and Danny Drinkwater at one end of the market, to Roberto Carlos and Robin van Persie at the other, the Turkish league was a place where footballers were put out to pasture. At the same time, their bank balances and/or retirement funds would usually have been generously bolstered. Competitive wages have generally not been a problem for Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and, to a lesser extent, Besiktas -…

For weeks, drafts of a US-backed Gaza peace plan have circulated in Middle Eastern capitals. The leaders of key regional countries felt confident about its contents even hours before it was released on Tuesday. And yet, when US President Donald Trump unveiled his 20-point plan, those same leaders were caught off-guard by major differences between the initial drafts and the final version, several regional sources told Middle East Eye. The most surprising changes concerned the number of Palestinians set to be released as part of the deal, and the phased approach to the Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave. According…

Real Madrid midfielder Federico Valverde on Wednesday denied he refused to play in an unfamiliar right-back role in Tuesday’s 5-0 Champions League win against Kairat Almaty in Kazakhstan.The Uruguay midfielder was reported to have refused to warm up with the other substitutes before the match and when asked to do so during the game, he stood on the touchline with his arms behind his back in apparent protest.Real Madrid were without both recognised right-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dani Carvajal through injury, while head coach Xabi Alonso opted to start with Raúl Asencio in the role.Fede Valverde has had six starts…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation.Ian Roberts, who immigration authorities say was living and working in the U.S. illegally and who resigned this week as Des Moines’ superintendent of schools, claimed in his 2023 application that he received a doctorate in urban educational leadership from Morgan State University in 2007, according to documents The Associated Press obtained through a public records…