Las Vegas casinos will get hit with a “double whammy” of lower revenue and higher promotional spending as they alter their businesses to deal with the realities of COVID-19, according to one Wall Street analyst.The Nevada Gaming Control Board said Saturday that when casinos reopen they must limit occupancy to no more than 50 percent…
So when might California be ready to really loosen up its statewide stay-at-home order?Gov. Gavin Newsom outlined a four-stage plan that envisions a process by which restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus are lifted gradually. Newsom said he understood the frustrations and suggested he would announce an easing of some rules as…
Across the country, it's largely Republican governors who are moving expeditiously to ease coronavirus stay-at-home orders and reopen swaths of their states' economies. Critics warn they're moving too fast.But in Colorado, it's a progressive Democratic governor who's accelerating the reopening process.Gov. Jared Polis announced a relaxation of his state's stay-at-home edict two weeks ago, permitting…
Fully reopening the economy now would cost more than 230,000 more lives — but would save perhaps 18 million jobs that will be lost if the country remains shut down through June 30, according to new calculations from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.A bad economy and more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths are already inevitable, given…
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…