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[ad_1] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks at the Pathway To Peace Policy panel on February 12, 2020 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Unlike many other Congress members who are lining up to receive the shot, Rep. Ilhan Omar stated on Sunday that she won’t be getting the COVID-19 vaccine immediately […]

[ad_1] Congressional leaders on Monday released the text of a 5,593-page COVID-19 stimulus package hours before a midnight government funding deadline. The massive legislation is one of the longest bills ever considered, but is expected to pass swiftly over back-bench grumbles. The bill contains $600 stimulus checks for most Americans with another $600 per child,

[ad_1] Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are studying the contagious new mutation of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom to see if it might be resistant to new vaccines, according to a report. Dr. Nelson Michael, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research at the institute, told CNN that while

[ad_1] The US poverty rate has spiked is the last five months After months of wrangling, US lawmakers have agreed to a roughly $900bn package of pandemic aid, including money for businesses and unemployment programmes. The money is set to accompany a bigger $1.4tn spending bill to fund government operations over the next nine months.

[ad_1] Police, firefighters, teachers and grocery workers will be among those next in line for a COVID-19 vaccine, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel decided Sunday. The committee voted 13-1 to recommend that Phase 1b include people 75 and older and front-line essential workers. Phase 1c will include people 65 to 74

[ad_1] New York and New Jersey, early hot spots during the COVID-19 pandemic, have so far declined to release detailed breakdowns of their spending on personal protective gear and medical equipment during the first frenzied months of the virus outbreak. The administration of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said the state spent $830

[ad_1] South Dakota Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson speaks during a press conference about COVID-19 in September 2020. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images South Dakota Rep. Dusty Johnson, a Republican, on Friday said he would allow his constituents to vote whether he got the COVID-19 vaccine now or waited to receive it until it

[ad_1] Prospects for a $900 billion coronavirus relief deal in Congress hit a snag Saturday over a Republican provision that would sharply limit the ability of the Federal Reserve to restart emergency lending programs. Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, who is pushing the change, told reporters that his goal was “preventing the Fed from being

[ad_1] General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Department’s Project Warp Speed, at a Coronavirus Task Force briefing. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, apologized Saturday for a “planning error” that caused dozens of states to expect more vaccine doses than they’ll actually get.  More than

[ad_1] Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Washington were working through the weekend to complete a $900 billion coronavirus aid bill for American individuals and businesses struggling from the economic fallout of pandemic lockdowns. It would be the largest relief package since this spring, when Congress approved more than $4 trillion in aid. The COVID-19 pandemic