Susan Cohen is the founding chair of the immigration practice at Mintz in Boston. Jennifer Hunt served as chief economist at the US Department of Labor and is a professor of economics at Rutgers Univ…
More than 75 percent of Americans are afraid of contracting the coronavirus, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds, as the number of new COVID-19 cases surges nationwide.In the poll, 76 percent of respondents said that they are concerned about contracting the virus, up from 69 percent in the same survey on June 12.Places that were once considered hot spots for the…
If successful, the move would permanently end the health insurance program popularly known as Obamacare and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans.The case is by far the most serious challenge to date for the 10-year-old health care law, President Barack Obama’s signature domestic achievement.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesJune 26, 2020, 1:54…
A $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan Performante Spyder was wrecked on a U.K. highway 20 minutes after its new owner left the dealership when it broke down and was rear-ended by a van at high speed. (SWNS)The incident happened this week on the M1 motorway outside Leeds, Southwest News Service reported. Photos show the right rear quarter…
The Big Idea is a series that asks top lawmakers and figures to discuss their moonshot — what’s the one proposal, if politics and polls and even price tag were not an issue, they’d implement to change the country for the better? Robert Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, says it's time America atones for slavery and…
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…