President Joe Biden intends to meet on Monday with 10 GOP senators who are calling on him to make a smaller, bipartisan deal instead of forging ahead with a party-line vote on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Sunday reported five new deaths due to the coronavirus, the lowest daily number since Oct. 4.
The 11-page CDC order takes effect just before midnight on Monday night. It makes refusal to wear a mask a violation of federal law.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Saturday reported another 43 deaths due to the coronavirus. Deaths due to COVID-19 have exceeded single digits for 111 straight days.
The sudden explosion in demand for these and other big-name schools is another ripple effect of the coronavirus pandemic that could reshape college admissions for many years to come.
That finding, in a report from Johns Hopkins University, suggests that it could take nearly 18 months for not-for-profits to regain their pre-pandemic employment levels.
Indiana on Friday reported another 46 deaths due to the coronavirus. Deaths due to COVID-19 have exceeded single digits for 110 straight days.
Johnson & Johnson said it will file an application for emergency use for the single-dose vaccine in the United States within a week and then abroad.
The proposal would allow local schools, universities, and other organizations to apply for $150 million in competitive grants to help students catch up.
Despite President Biden’s calls for unity, Democrats said the stubbornly high unemployment numbers and battered U.S. economy leave them unwilling to waste time courting Republican support that might not materialize.
Investors continued to closely watch the wild swings in GameStop, AMC and several other stocks which have become targets for hordes of online investors who have sent them skyrocketing in recent days, taking on big hedge funds who have bet they will fall.
The most concrete short-term impact of Biden’s orders will come from reopening HealthCare.gov insurance markets as coverage has shrunk in the economic turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic.
Proposals aimed at ensuring Indiana’s public schools receive full funding for all students during the coronavirus pandemic have prompted criticism from virtual learning supporters and one of the state’s top senators.
On Thursday, Southwest, American and JetBlue reported that they lost a combined $3.5 billion in the final three months of the year. All issued dismal revenue outlooks for the current quarter.
The state has reported 288 new deaths over the past seven days, an average of 41.1 per day. That’s down from 389, or 55.6 per day, the previous week.
Overall, nearly 4.8 million Americans received traditional state unemployment benefits the week of Jan. 16. That is down from nearly 5 million the week before.
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product—its total output of goods and services—slowed sharply in the October-December quarter after a record 33.4% surge in the July-September quarter.
The mother, who has two children who attend virtual schools in Indiana, argued that a rule to fully fund students who attend remotely because of the pandemic violates several laws and is unfair to children who were already enrolled in virtual schools.
The sharp selling is a shift from the market’s recent record-setting run and comes as investors focus on the outlook for the economy and corporate profits amid a still-raging coronavirus pandemic.
Gov. Eric Holcomb said Wednesday that the federal government, which controls the vaccine supply, is expected to increase Indiana’s weekly allotment by 16%, or about 13,000 extra doses, within three weeks, allowing the state to expand the program to big pharmacies.
