The financial condition of the government’s two biggest benefit programs remains shaky, with Medicare expected to become insolvent in just six years, while Social Security will be unable to pay full benefits starting in 2035, the government said this week. ...
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Read More »Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a new survey finds, even as small pockets of attention-grabbing protests demanding the lifting of such restrictions emerge nationwide. The survey from ...
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Read More »Inspections are underway at a Kansas City, Kansas, rehabilitation facility where 25 people have died of COVID-19 and another 91 have contracted the disease. The deaths at Riverbend Post Acute Rehabilitation, which provides short-term rehabilitation for people recovering from medical ...
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Read More »PG&E Corp. CEO Bill Johnson will step down from his job just 14 months after the nation’s largest utility hired him to rescue it from a financial mess caused by a history of negligence and to change a corporate culture ...
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Read More »The tourists and conventioneers who once filled the rooms of The New Yorker hotel are long gone, driven away by the coronavirus, but its lobby is still bustling. The big, art-deco hotel in midtown Manhattan is one of several across ...
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Read More »Former Vice President Al Gore, now one of the world’s leading climate activists, endorsed Joe Biden’s White House bid this week, declaring that choosing the presumptive Democratic nominee over President Donald Trump is “not rocket science” and “not a close ...
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Read More »Protesters gathered this week outside the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City to demand that the state reopen to business after weeks of government-imposed social distancing aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The protest is among several that have ...
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Read More »China has slammed a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. state of Missouri over the coronavirus pandemic as “very absurd.” Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the legal action has “no factual and legal basis at all” and repeated ...
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Read More »This is how the Supreme Court embraces technology. Slowly. It took a worldwide pandemic for the court to agree to hear arguments over the telephone, with audio available live for the first time. C-SPAN plans to carry the arguments. Just ...
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President Donald Trump announced what he described as a “temporary suspension of immigration into the United States.” But the e the change would bar only those seeking permanent residency, not temporary workers. “I will be signing my Executive Order prohibiting ...
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On a Friday night in late February, 17-year-old Amanda Reynolds raced into a department store on Florida’s Gulf coast. She’d been on a mission for weeks, and after countless hours shopping online and in stores, there it was. Off the ...
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