getty In March of 2020, the Senate passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the CARES Act. It was bigger than the original Senate proposal but smaller than the subsequent House proposal. Eventually, the two reconciled and the CARES Act became law. In May of 2020, the House introduced and passed a new COVID-19 economic…
TOPLINE As Congress is headed for an 11-day crunch to agree on a new rescue package and have it signed by President Trump before a key provision of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act expires—with millions of Americans unemployed and new cases of the coronavirus soaring to alarming levels—here’s what’s at stake in the next round…
This isn’t the scandal journalists are making it out to be. Leave the IRS alone. Zach Gibson/Getty Images So it turns out the federal government sent more than 1 million coronavirus relief payments to dead people. That’s according to a report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office, which earned some breathless coverage from the…
offering testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.One of them, MedExpress Urgent Care, is now testing people at eight of its New Jersey locations, which can be seen by clicking here.Those who meet CDC-based screening criteria can review it and call their local MedExpress center to speak with an employee who will go…
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…