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The Republican coronavirus relief plan will extend the improved unemployment insurance “based on a wage replacement of about 70%,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday. He spoke to CNBC about the status of the negotiations hours after Republicans in the Senate and the Trump administration said they reached a tentative …

Aid workers belonged to different humanitarian agencies, and a member of the security staff working with the team was among the hostages, said Eve Sabbagh, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance. The UN said it had been trying to secure the release of the …

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an executive order this week expanding the District’s mask mandate to require residents to cover their faces while outside, amid a surge in positive cases of coronavirus. Bowser, in April, initially issued an order to require the use of masks by workers and customers …

(Newser) – Do you want to escape? Now you can see how far “really” is. Based on 20 years of research, scientists have created a 3D map of the universe that spans 11 billion years and covers more than 2 million quasars and galaxies, while shedding light on a couple …

Surprise, surprise, Antonio Brown doesn’t really want to retire. The free agent receiver, who two days ago suggested on Twitter that he would retire for the umpteenth time, indicated on Instagram that he wanted to continue playing and asked the NFL to complete its investigations of personal conduct. “@nfl I …