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President Trump and top Republican lawmakers are mounting fresh opposition to extending enhanced unemployment benefits to the millions of Americans who are still out of work, even as the administration released new jobless figures Thursday showing 2.4 million Americans sought benefits last week.The reluctance by the White House and top GOP leaders drew sharp rebukes…
Gary Lin, a Chinese-American business owner in New York City, has been working through the coronavirus crisis to keep his ramen restaurant afloat. He is worried about getting sick and bringing the virus to his family, but has remained partially open for takeout services as rent and bills pile up. On top of the financial…
Who’s paying close attention to the presidential campaign besides the candidates, political strategists and the news media? Not everybody. A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that that 26% of U.S. adults are paying “only a little attention” to the White House race, while 14% are paying no attention whatsoever. Here’s what the poll found: • 33%…
Get the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.With unemployment claims surging to unprecedented levels amid lockdown measures meant to stem the coronavirus' spread, states are struggling to process all the claims flooding their systems -- leaving many who are out of work or furloughed still without access to aid despite…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…