Negotiations over the next stimulus package intended to bolster the economy and help struggling Americans pay their bills have stalled on Capitol Hill with Democrats and Trump administration officials walking away after talks broke down on Friday and devolved into partisan finger-pointing.
Talks for a new stimulus are on ice, out-of-work Americans are looking at smaller unemployment benefits and the threat of eviction, but Washington feels more broken than ever.
Sarah Thomas is back at her job, but she’s no longer earning enough to pay her bills.
When James Giannetta first called his brother Russ in late June to tell him that the coronavirus was beginning to spread in his Texas federal prison, Russ could hear the fear in his voice. “This place is exploding,” James warned.
In a Texas town, 75% of a prison’s population tested positive for Covid-19. Hear what it’s like inside the hardest-hit federal prison in the US. CNN’s Drew Griffin reports.
Covid-19 precautions need to stay consistent — whether or not the numbers are coming down — because the more Americans move around the more the virus does too, a health expert said.
President Donald Trump turned a hastily scheduled Friday night “news conference” at his New Jersey golf club into a surreal kind of campaign rally — uttering the usual boasts and false claims, except with polo-clad club members standing at the back of the room.
President Donald Trump’s push for a payroll tax holiday could leave Social Security and Medicare on even shakier ground.
In a radio interview Thursday morning with Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, President Donald Trump suggested that a vaccine for the coronavirus could be ready before Election Day.
The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Democratic offer to agree to a stimulus price tag of around $2 trillion, the latest indication that talks continue to falter and may collapse completely with the two sides still far apart.
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An antibody treatment designed to protect against coronavirus could be available as early as this fall — but only for a fraction of the millions of Americans who might benefit from the treatment.