The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, affects the personal finances of about 1 in 5 Americans, including Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees, about 70 million people.
The pause is at least the second such hold to occur among several vaccines that have reached large-scale final tests in the United States.
The mood is likely to shift to a more confrontational tone as Barrett is grilled in 30-minute segments Tuesday by Democrats gravely opposed to President Trump’s nominee, yet virtually powerless to stop her rise.
Big Tech stocks, including Apple and Microsoft, powered much of the gains. Their businesses have proven to be practically impervious to the pandemic, unlike companies that would benefit from a strengthening economy.
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett spoke about her judicial philosophy, her experience and her large family at the end of the first day of her confirmation hearings, which Senate Democrats are using to brand her as a threat to Americans’ health care during the pandemic.
COVID-19 cases have increased by 9,835 over the past week in Indiana, an average of 1,405 per day.
Microsoft announced legal action Monday seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware.
Sen. Lindsey Graham opened Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing Monday by acknowledging that the proceedings will surely be contentious but urging senators to hold a respectful process, saying: “Let’s remember, the world is watching.”
The economic vulnerability inherent in arts organizations is exacerbated when they rely on a major seasonal event—like “The Nutcracker”—for large portions of revenue, said Amir Pasic, dean of the School of Philanthropy at IUPUI.
If countries don’t all agree on the new tax rules, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned there’s a risk of a global trade war triggered by individual countries launching their own digital services taxes to help their recovery from the pandemic.
Democratic aides said their senators are united in their view that they will not press Barrett about her beliefs—hoping to avoid the mishap from her circuit court confirmation hearing in 2017, when Feinstein told Barrett that “the dogma lives loudly within you.”
In addition, the Indiana State Department of Health on Sunday reported seven additional deaths from COVID-19, the first time in six days that reported deaths haven’t been in double digits.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected the most generous Trump administration plan to date as “one step forward, two steps back.” The Republicans who control the Senate dismissed it as too expensive.
The Indiana State Department of Health has reported 115 deaths in its daily reports over the past week, an average of 16.4 deaths per day. That’s up from 83 the previous week, an average of 11.9 per day.
Indiana Gov. Holcomb moved Indiana to Stage 5, which essentially lifted all restrictions, on Sept. 26, but COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are back on the increase.
A GOP aide familiar with the new offer said it is about $1.8 trillion. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s most recent public offer was about $2.2 trillion, although that included a business tax increase that Republicans won’t go for.
In the absence of a crystal ball, forecasting models offer the next best thing: a rough guide for people to guess when they might get back to something resembling normalcy.
Eli Lilly and Co. already has begun manufacturing the drug and expects to have 1 million doses by December, the executive in charge of COVID-19 research said Friday at IBJ’s Life Sciences Power Breakfast.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Friday also reported 19 additional deaths from COVID-19, the 14th time in the past 17 days in which daily deaths have been in double digits.
Scientists are confident the change in death rates is real, but the reasons for it—and whether it will last—are a matter of intense debate.
