McConnell calls for 5-year lawsuit shield for businesses as part of next virus bill
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., outlined new details Monday of what he wants to see in the next and potentially final coronavirus relief package.
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Supreme Court: States may require presidential electors to support popular-vote winner
Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court, saying states may punish or replace electors who will not abide by the popular vote.
The big factor holding back the U.S. economic recovery: Child care
The child-care crunch triggered by the pandemic has rapidly become a crisis for many workers and companies that is hindering the economic recovery, disproportionately harming women, and threatening to leave deep scars for years to come.
After months of isolation, we’re hating our home assistants
As our isolation dragged on with Alexa, Siri and Google’s nameless “assistant “serving as one of our few outlets for conversation, a certain animosity for these devices has grown for some, seemingly exponentially.
As virus cases rise, governors warn college football season could be in danger
With cases of the novel coronavirus rising in the South and West, some governors hope that the threat of a canceled college football season will encourage their residents to follow public health guidelines.
Parenting: The coronavirus turned my anxious 9-year-old into a shut-in. Then his teacher stopped by.
One mother struggled to get her 9-year-old son to leave the house even after stay-at-home orders were lifted, but a visit from his teacher got him out of their apartment door, giving Mom hope.
These creative quarantiners turned their homes into the bars and restaurants they were missing
TikTok, Instagram and Facebook are full of videos and photo spreads of people enjoying a restaurant or bar experience at home. From Oregon to Munich, people have gotten creative during quarantine to let the good times keep rolling.
Recipe: A Serbian Croatian pancake meets Italian flavors in this family recipe mash-up
Sometimes a recipe is more than a set of instructions for a certain dish. It’s a gateway to something else – a person or place that existed once, but is now gone. It doesn’t matter if infinite iterations exist, or even if the method has changed over time.
The pandemic has stirred up the sewing world
As stay-at-home weeks wore on, novice and expert sewers alike found themselves with more time to work on projects. “People were finishing quilts they had in a drawer for years,” one sewing shop owner says.
Senators press NCAA for coronavirus rules, criticize schools’ liability waivers
To this point, having received recommendations but no mandates from the Indianapolis-based NCAA, universities have implemented widely varying plans to deal with the novel coronavirus for the upcoming academic year.
Pfizer reports encouraging early COVID-19 vaccine data
There was a concerning signal in the Pfizer trial: The majority of people given an intermediate dose of the vaccine developed fevers, chills and other low-grade symptoms that lasted a day.
Pay cuts for millions of U.S. workers worsen the pain of pandemic
At least 4 million private-sector workers have had their pay cut during the pandemic, according to economists who worked on a labor market analysis for the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute.
Senate reaches deal to extend Paycheck Protection Program
Prospects for the legislation in the House, however, were uncertain. Both chambers are set to adjourn for a two-week recess by week’s end.
In quarantine, some stay-at-home parents are feeling less invisible
Because the pandemic has forced working parents around the world to take on the additional responsibilities of numerous types of caregivers—teachers, nannies and housekeepers, to name a few—do people now have more empathy for stay-at-home parents?
Survey: Top CEOs expect virus business fallout through 2021
Business Roundtable’s CEO Economic Outlook Survey fell to 34.3 in the second quarter, its lowest reading since the same three months of 2009, according to results released Monday.
Microsoft store at Fashion Mall closing as part of broad strategy shift
Microsoft is dramatically shrinking its in-person retail business and will permanently close all but four of its brick-and-mortar locations, after its attempts to replicate Apple’s success with storefronts failed to get traction.
Dow tumbles 730 points as COVID-19 cases rebound in several states
Stocks closed sharply lower on Wall Street on Friday as the number of confirmed new coronavirus cases in the United States hit an all-time high, stoking worries that the reopening of businesses investors have been banking on to revive the economy will be derailed.
Players’ parents wonder why NCAA has no rules for coronavirus.
Thousands of parents of college football players across the country grappling with unanswered questions about coronavirus this month as their sons returned to campuses for socially distanced workouts.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare
In the brief, Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued that all of the Affordable Care Act should be struck down because one of its core provisions, the individual mandate, is unconstitutional, rendering the rest of the law invalid as well.
Parenting: How can we help our kids get along better while in quarantine?
Whatever you do, keep offering the children empathy (separately and together). These are difficult times, and simply enduring with as much grace as you can muster is a win.