Numbers due to be released on Thursday are forecast to show a jobless rate of 19.5% in May, the highest since the Great Depression.
Lynley Price
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Cartoonists to thank frontline workers playfully this Sunday
More than 70 comic strips will have six symbols hidden in each strip.
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Christo, artist known for massive, fleeting displays, dies
In 2005, he installed more than 7,500 vinyl gates in New York’s Central Park.
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World alarmed by violence in U.S.
People gathered in Brazil, Denmark and Berlin to protest police brutality against black people.
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Officials see extremist groups, disinformation in protests
Experts have seen a surge of social media accounts with fewer than 200 followers created in the last month, a classic sign of a disinformation effort.
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Officials fear protests may cause new virus outbreaks
Many demonstrators wear masks, but social distancing is nonexistent.
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Target, CVS temporarily close stores due to protest dangers
Some stores in Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta and Philadelphia will remain shuttered.
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Biden calls Trump a ‘fool’ for mocking masks during pandemic
The former vice presidents say the president is politicizing the issue and ‘it’s stoking deaths.’
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Death and denial in Brazil’s Amazon capital during pandemic
Manaus is one of the cities hardest hit by the new coronavirus.
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Dangerous blood clots pose a perplexing coronavirus threat
Clotting has been seen in other coronavirus infections, including SARS, but on a much smaller scale.