The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the last remaining government mandates meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
The U.S. moved a step closer Wednesday to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to senior citizens and others at high risk from the virus as the Food and Drug Administration signed off on the targeted use of extra shots.
With President Joe Biden’s signature Thursday on the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, the IRS will begin sending payments to eligible taxpayers as early as this weekend, officials said.
Casinos run by the Navajo Nation plan to temporarily lay off more than 1,100 workers on New Years Day because of prolonged closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Nearly 2.1 million workers filed first-time claims for unemployment in the latest week nationwide, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Companies struggling to hire before the pandemic are spending millions on fresh incentives. Their hiring capability hinges on unemployment, industry changes, employees’ feelings about safety, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive and erratic immigration policies.
Federal recommendations meant to keep meatpacking workers safe as they return to plants have little enforcement muscle behind them.
More than 2.4 million people applied for unemployment benefits last week in the latest wave of layoffs from the coronavirus outbreak.
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus.
A tourist from New York was arrested for allegedly violating Hawaii’s traveler quarantine after he posted on Instagram photos of himself sunbathing and carrying a surfboard, state officials said.
