The latest on the coronavirus pandemic around the U.S. and the world. WASHINGTON — At the White House, aides now routinely flout internal rules requiring face masks. The president’s campaign is again scheduling mass arena rallies. And he is back to spending summer weekends at his New Jersey golf club. Three months after President Trump […]
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Fed to keep providing aid and sees no rate hike through 2022
After its policy meeting on Wednesday, Fed officials estimated that the economy will shrink 6.5% this year.
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Text of testimony of George Floyd’s brother before Congress
Philonise Floyd told the House Judiciary Committee ‘George called for help and he was ignored. Please listen to the calls I’m making to you now..’
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The Latest: In states across the U.S., coronavirus cases still on rise
The latest on coronavirus from around the U.S. and the world. When Gov. Doug Ducey allowed Arizona’s stay-at-home order to expire on May 15, 340 patients were in intensive care units statewide due to the novel coronavirus – the largest number since the beginning of the pandemic. Public health experts at the University of Arizona […]
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Maine veteran is among the few to mourn the D-Day dead at Omaha Beach
This year’s anniversary observances for the June 6, 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy will be one of the loneliest remembrances ever.
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Unemployment rate falls to 13.3%, U.S. adds 2.5 million jobs
The May job gain suggests that businesses have quickly been recalling workers as states have reopened their economies.
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Detained U.S. Navy veteran freed by Iran as part of deal
Michael White’s release was part of an agreement involving an American-Iranian doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department.
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Nearly 1.9 million seek jobless aid even as reopenings slow layoffs
The total number of people receiving unemployment benefits rises slightly to 21.5 million, down from a peak of nearly 25 million two weeks ago.
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The Latest: U.K. summit calls for freely available ‘people’s vaccine’
This is a roundup of the latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. LONDON — A vaccine summit hosted by Britain on Thursday raised billions of dollars to immunize children in developing countries as experts wrestled with the difficult question of how any potential vaccine against the new coronavirus might […]
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Hong Kong outlaws insulting China’s national anthem
The pro-democracy camp sees the anthem bill as an infringement of freedom of expression and of the rights residents of Hong Kong have compared to the PRC.