Senate Republicans on Monday unveiled a coronavirus relief package that reduces the size of enhanced unemployment benefits — in the short term to an extra $200 per week, from the current $600. Their proposals also include COVID-19 liability protections for businesses so they “can spend their next months actually reopening rather than fighting for their…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to roll out a £10 million anti-obesity campaign, including junk food advert bans, following his own brush with death that he partly blamed on his weight.Johnson will announce his "Better Health" campaign on Monday, which is expected to include encouraging doctors to issue "cycling prescriptions" for overweight patients,…
Biden's campaign puts the price tag at $775 billion over 10 years and says it would be fully covered by rolling back tax breaks for real estate investors with incomes over $400,000 and taking steps to increase tax compliance for high-income earners. The plan calls for building energy-efficient child care facilities, including in workplaces. The…
Gov. Mike DeWine speaks during a coronavirus briefing on May 12, 2020. (The Ohio Channel)COLUMBUS, Ohio—Gov. Mike DeWine is slated to announce what he calls the “next phase” of Ohio’s coronavirus reopening process during his 2 p.m. Thursday briefing, including issuing new state guidelines for schools.The governor has also promised to disclose what restrictions will…
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…