Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday repeatedly called for the city’s businesses to reopen while refusing to provide any social distancing guidelines on how to do so safely. “I am not a private owner. That’s the competition in this country. The free …
Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, said the prospect of the Republican National Convention being held as scheduled in late August is wholly dependent on how the U.S. deals with the coronavirus pandemic. “I don’t even know if we’ll have a Republican …
WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Biden’s tenure as Barack Obama’s vice president is complicating his efforts to deepen ties with Latinos who could be critical to winning the White House. For many Latinos, Biden’s embrace of the Obama years is a frightening reminder of…
BOSTON (AP) — As she treated patient after patient infected with the coronavirus at a Veterans Affairs medical center in New York City, Heather Espinal saw stark warning signs. So many nurses had called in sick, she said, that the Bronx facility was woefully understaffed. It lacked specially equipped rooms for infected patients, she said,…
WASHINGTON—Millions of Americans likely filed for unemployment benefits last week, reflecting the depth of the jobs crisis triggered more than a month ago by the coronavirus pandemic. About 5.2 million Americans applied for jobless benefits in the week that ended April 11, bringing the one-month total to more than 22 million. Economists expect a similar…
WASHINGTON—The House is expected to approve an additional $320 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program on Thursday, amid concerns by lenders and small-business advocates that the funding still won’t be enough to meet demand for the coronavirus aid. Banks, credit unions and community-based lenders say they have a backlog of applications for the PPP loans,…
The new “normal” offers new opportunities. That’s the thinking behind a new pre-seed funding program from Heartcore Capital . The European consumer-focused VC usually invests in startups at seed and Series A, but recognising that many potential founders are i…
On the heels of Amazon getting approval from the competition authority to proceed with an investment leading a $575 million round for food delivery startup Deliveroo in the UK, two of Deliveroo’s biggest rivals got their own £6.2 billion merger approved, and …
OneDegree, the Hong Kong-based insurance technology startup, launched its first product today, a line of medical plans for pets called Pawfect Care. The company will introduce other products, including cyber insurance and medical coverage for humans, all avai…
Early in his career, Richard Essey learned the precarious nature of corporate employment. Both Lever Brothers Co. and the advertising agency Benton & Bowles Inc. laid him off. Mr. Essey secured far longer-term employment in 1962 by founding a temporary-staff service, TemPositions. He ran the company until 1990. It remains in business, now run by…
The federal government will borrow like it has never borrowed before to pay for the multi-trillion dollar stimulus program, which includes checks for American households, that it hopes will steer a safe course through the economic tempest unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.Until last year, China was America’s largest creditor and might have been expected to…
Coronavirus 23 de abril, minuto a minuto: Al menos 183.000 han muerto en el mundo por covid-19
Mitos y realidades sobre las mascotas por el covid-19 3:49 (CNN) — Dos gatos en Nueva York están infectados con el nuevo coronavirus, anunciaron funcionarios federales el miércoles. Ambos tenían síntomas respiratorios leves y se espera que se recuperen por c…
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Former President Barack Obama joined in with the growing chorus of criticism being leveled at President Donald Trump over his administration’s slow and sloppy response to the coronavirus crisis, commenting on Twitter about the lack of “a coherent national plan to navigate this pandemic.” Obama did not mention Trump by name in his tweet Wednesday in which…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions between Washington and Tehran flared anew Wednesday as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard conducted a space launch that could advance the country’s long-range missile program and President Donald Trump threatened to “shoot down and destroy” any Iranian gunboats that harass Navy ships. The launch was a first for the Guard, revealing what experts…
The Trump administration on Wednesday sketched out its plan for making sure the uninsured don’t have to pay for COVID-19 tests and treatments. The plan follows through on a promise President Donald Trump made in early April, when he said he wanted to “alleviate any concern uninsured Americans may have about seeking the coronavirus treatment.” …
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday suggested that states could go bankrupt rather than get additional federal funding to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. And at least one member of his own party is slamming the plan. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) ripped McConnell in a pair of tweets on Wednesday evening: .@senatemajldr McConnell’s…
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the tourism industry hard, including in Japan — ninety percent of ryokan inns in the famous Arima hot spring resort town have been closed since the prefecture of Hyogo went under a state of emergency this month, according to The Mainichi Shimbun. In response to the situation, a group of…
Twitter has updated its COVID-19 policies to require users remove tweets making unverified claims that “incite people to action and cause widespread panic, social unrest or large-scale disorder.” The changes come as COVID-19 misinformation has spread across social media that has incited people to act rashly. For example, people have set British 5G towers on…
Google’s Duo video chatting app is about to get a big bump in call quality, thanks to a new video codec technology the company plans to roll out in the next week. The codec, called AV1, is the product of an industry-wide consortium called the Alliance for Open Media. AV1 is the successor to VP9…