Image copyright Getty Images Employees kept on by struggling businesses during the coronavirus outbreak will have 80% of their wages subsidised by the government, but ministers were criticised for not going so far for the self-employed. Now Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced measures to support them too. What help is there? If they have suffered […]
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The Indianapolis 500 scheduled for May 24 has been postponed until August because of the coronavirus pandemic and won’t run on Memorial Day weekend for the first time since 1946 By JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer March 26, 2020, 5:21 PM 2 min read The Indianapolis 500 scheduled for May 24 has been postponed
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Unemployment Claims Hit Record High Amid Coronavirus | HuffPost Part of HuffPost News. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved. Huffington Post. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Unemployment Claims Hit Record High Amid Coronavirus NOW PLAYING A shocking number of Americans have filed for unemployment in
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U.S. deaths from the pandemic have now topped 1,000 March 26, 2020, 4:57 PM 4 min read A record-high number of people applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs engulfed the United States in the face of a near-total economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. The surge in weekly applications for benefits far exceeded
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It’s here! Disney announced Thursday that a new movie, narrated by Meghan Markle, will be available to stream on April 3. “Disneynature’s Elephant, an Original Movie narrated by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, starts streaming April 3, only on #DisneyPlus,” Walt Disney Studios tweeted on Thursday. “Elephant, narrated by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, follows one family’s
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“We don’t feel the conditions we have to work under are safe, we weren’t given any protection from the Post Office. No hand sanitiser, gloves, no aprons or anything, we had to source them ourselves.” Jay Patel, 37, and his wife Nilam run a branch post office in Bournemouth and as “essential retailers” are staying
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If not for those magical eight days seven years ago, Florida Gulf Coast might still be that upstart school trying to create an identity in the Sunshine State, never mind nationally. Dunk City changed everything. The high-flying Eagles and their showstopping offense earned their place in NCAA Tournament lore when, as a No. 15 seed
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On Wednesday, Gen. Robert B. Abrams, commander of U.S. troops in South Korea, declared a public health emergency on his bases, which gives him wide-ranging authority to help combat the spread of the coronavirus among his forces. General Abrams is one of the first U.S. commanders to issue such an order. In North Carolina, Maj.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has a favorite talking point: With the Federal Reserve’s help, the government will turn a $500 billion spending package working its way through Congress into a $4 trillion booster shot for the United States economy. How, you might ask, does that figure? The answer lies in the central bank’s emergency lending
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Image copyright Getty Images An army of dentists is being redeployed to join the front-line fight against Covid-19 after non-urgent dentistry was suspended amid the virus pandemic. The Chief Dental Office for England said they would be asked to help at hospitals being built to boost critical care and other parts of the NHS. And
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