Hundreds of unemployed Kentucky residents wait in long lines outside the Kentucky Career Center for help with their unemployment claims on June 19, 2020 in Frankfort, Kentucky.John Sommers II/Getty ImagesThe financial aid that jobless workers have been receiving to shore up household income during the coronavirus pandemic is poised for a dramatic reduction in just…
Uncle Sam found it was actually pretty easy to get people to stop working for coronavirus — all it took was a generous $600-a-week boost in unemployment. Getting them back on the job now is proving to be far tougher, at least as long as those payments are still rolling in. From a bar in…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A large study of more than 1,400 COVID-19 patients has revealed the controversial coronavirus treatment hydroxychloroquine yielded no benefits for the people involved in the research.The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday, looked at 1,438…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - While much of Europe remained in lockdown, students played table tennis and made weekend plans at Kunskapsskolan, one of many Swedish schools kept open in a country that bucked the global trend of severe shutdowns to fight the coronavirus pandemic. People get lunch and enjoy good weather at the Humlegarden park during…
Global economic shutdowns and rock-bottom oil prices have created a perfect storm around the world that has left even the usual beneficiaries of plummeting energy markets — major importers, developing nations, energy-using industries, the travel industry and consumers — struggling to reap any rewards. Although big oil importing countries such as China and India in…
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…