Unemployment assistance, eviction protections and other relief for millions of Americans struggling in an economy affected by the coronavirus crisis were at stake when White House officials began tense negotiations with top Democrats on a new package on Monday. of help. Aid runs out on Friday for a weekly unemployment …
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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says the proposed coronavirus legislation to be released Monday will include direct stimulus payments to people. “We have direct payments, and like you do now, direct payments are a much quicker way to give everyone a tax cut,” Mnuchin said in a Fox News interview on …
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Seattle police withdrew to an compound early Sunday.just hours after declaring a riot during the large protests in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, near where weeks earlier people established a “busy protest zone” that spanned several blocks. Some protesters lingered after officers entered the department’s East Precinct around 1 a.m., but …
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With an impending election and polls looking bad, Donald Trump needed a quick political boost. Taking advantage of television footage of a refugee procession outside Honduras, the president announced an imminent “invasion” of the United States by a “migrant caravan” and said he would deploy 15,000 military personnel to stop …
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… and welcome to another day of coverage of the US coronavirus outbreak – and, of course, its policy and everything else. The United States is now, according to Johns Hopkins University, in more than 4.1 million confirmed cases and more than 145,000 people dead. The economy is still crumbling …
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