New to python, intermediate at VB7

I have been trying to create a program which will reach out and log news articles based on the text in the url. I have encountered many difficulties no doubt due to my unfamiliarity with the language, and I was hoping I might find some help here on this problem as I have others.

Here is an example block of webpage code I am working with. (I'm sorry, I know its ugly.)

```
<tr><td width="130" align="right" style="white-space:nowrap">Aug-29-17 09:05AM&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left">
<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/abeona-therapeutics-receives-fda-breakthrough-130500766.html" target="_blank"
class="tab-link-news">Yahoo news</a><span style="color:#aa6dc0;font-size:9px">GlobeNewswire</span> <span class="body-table-news-gain">
+18.95%</span></td></tr><tr><td width="130" align="right" style="white-space:nowrap">Aug-25-17 07:30AM&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left">
<a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/" target="_blank" class="tab-link-news">Corporate News Blog - </a> 
<span style="color:#aa6dc0;font-size:9px">ACCESSWIRE</span> <span class="body-table-news-loss">-5.73%</span></td></tr>

```

I have Beautifulsoup, request, and at this point feel confident enough to handle any other module that I may need.

What I am trying to do figure out now is recording the time and date on the webpage, or perhaps checking it against today's date so that I don't read old news.

Thank you for reading.