Editorial Note: Forbes may earn a commission on sales made from partner links on this page, but that doesn't affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Getty Images The House of Representatives proposed and passed the HEROES Act in May to provide an additional one-time stimulus payment to Americans in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The…
All theater performances in New York are suspended through the remainder of 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. Pictured, shuttered Broadway theaters.Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesGreat Depression levels of unemployment have hit some of the country's biggest cities.The coronavirus pandemic has pushed the jobless rate in New York, Los Angeles and other major urban areas…
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 09: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives for the weekly ... [+] Senate Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 09, 2020 in Washington, DC. As a response to the recent killings of unarmed black people by police, Democrats from the House and Senate…
US President Donald Trump reacts as he delivers a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White ... [+] House in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images If you’ve been reading up on the next stimulus bill,…
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…