It would provide up to $511 per day, per employee for firms with fewer than 500 workers.
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Russia to expel 10 U.S. diplomats in response to Biden sanctions
The Foreign Ministry takes other retaliatory steps as well, among them barring eight current or former U.S. officials from entering the country.
Families await news of 11 missing workers on capsized boat off Louisiana
Another body is recovered and rescuers hope the 11 people still missing have found air pockets to survive inside the lift boat.
Municipal mask mandates remain across New Hampshire
New Hampshire was the last state in New England to adopt a statewide mask mandate, in November, and was the first to lift it, on Friday.
Hong Kong democracy leaders given jail terms amid crackdown
Their convictions and sentencing are another blow to the city’s flagging democracy movement.
FBI says it interviewed Indiana FedEx mass shooter last year
Indianapolis police say they have not yet discovered the gunman’s motive for opening fire with a rifle late Thursday night at a FedEx processing center near the Indianapolis airport, killing 8 people.
Coronavirus hug image named World Press Photo of the Year
A photo symbolizing “love and compassion” of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse has been named the World Press Photo of the Year.
Defense rests after Chauvin decides not to testify at his murder trial
Closing arguments are set to begin Monday, after which the racially diverse jury will begin its deliberations.
Restoration of Paris’ Notre Dame continues, but slowed by pandemic
French President Emmanuel Macron visited the building site that Notre Dame has become in the two years since a devastating fire tore through Paris’ most famous cathedral.
Cubans anxious about prospect of 6 decades of Castro rule ending
This week’s Communist Party congress in Cuba could be the last with a Castro at the helm of the island’s all-powerful political institution.