The temporary $300-a-week unemployment insurance boost implemented by President Donald Trump is about to end, with no extension in sight. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday in an email to The Associated Press that it has distributed $30 billion of the $44 billion it had set aside for the benefit. The agency said the…
The last unemployment check with the extra $600 in jobless benefits arrived last week for Danielle Grant, a single parent in San Francisco who credits the pandemic aid with helping her meet her basic living needs. Now, with no future extra aid in sight, Grant said she's worried. "I'm already financially strapped," said Grant, 38,…
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said that Republicans will unveil their plan to provide an unemployment insurance extension on Monday. Mr. Meadows told ABC that the extension would not maintain the extra $600 per week sum, but instead would amount to “70% of whatever the wages you were [making] prior to being unemployed.”…
The Republican version of a new pandemic economic stimulus package should arrive next week, reports indicate, as Senate GOP leaders and the White House claim to have reached agreement on what they will propose on Monday. The $600 federal unemployment benefit ends tomorrow, leaving the millions of unemployed people relying on their state benefits, even…
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…