[ad_1] The Japanese government gives subsidies to smaller companies that allow them to pay employees idled by the COVID-19 pandemic up to 100 percent of their normal wages. In the Netherlands, that number is 90 percent. In Germany, it’s 87 percent. In France, it’s 84 percent. In Italy and the United Kingdom, it’s 80 percent. […]
[ad_1] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Congressional Democrats came out in favor of a bipartisan $908 billion spending plan on Wednesday. It’s a large concession for Democrats, who held out for a multitrillion-dollar rescue package for several months. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House
[ad_1] Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Moncef Slaoui, the top scientist advising the US government’s Operation Warp Speed, predicted that more than 100 million Americans would be vaccinated against COVID-19 within the next 100
[ad_1] The Week The naked corruption of Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue Control of the United States Senate hinges on two January 5 runoff elections in Georgia, where incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock respectively. Most immediately, the race is a contest over whether President-elect Joe
[ad_1] A photo of a hospital’s alternative care site in Reno, Nevada, is being misrepresented on social media to fuel the false narrative that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax, even as cases surge in the state. Renown Regional Medical Center has been the primary target of renewed conspiracy theories online suggesting that hospitals are
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[ad_1] A bipartisan COVID-19 stimulus proposal unveiled Tuesday seeks to end a long-running Capitol Hill stalemate on pandemic relief, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s insistence that Republicans agree to a massive all-or-nothing deal. The $908 billion bipartisan proposal was unveiled by five Senate Democrats alongside Senate Republicans and House members of both parties. “Today is
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[ad_1] Chinese President Xi Jinping. Noel Celis – Pool/Getty Images Leaked documents reveal that China significantly underreported the number of coronavirus cases in the early stages of the pandemic. Health data from Chinese health authorities leaked to CNN shows that officials in the Hubei province, where the virus is believed to have originated, failed to
[ad_1] Virus Outbreak China (Chinatopix) China underreported Covid-19 numbers by more than half as it downplayed the severity of the virus and their failure to quickly diagnose cases in the early stages of the pandemic, according to leaked documents. A series of revelations in 117 pages of internal documents from the Hubei Provincial Centre for
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[ad_1] San Francisco’s surge in coronavirus cases placed the city back in the state’s most restrictive “purple tier,” signaling new rules starting Monday, Mayor London Breed announced on Twitter Saturday. A limited stay-at-home order will mean all nonessential indoor businesses will close and members from different households will not be permitted to gather between 10
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[ad_1] National Review Trump’s Disgraceful Endgame President Trump said the other day that he’d leave office if he loses the vote of the Electoral College on December 14.This is not the kind of assurance presidents of the United States typically need to make, but it was noteworthy given Trump’s disgraceful conduct since losing his bid
