The city of Las Vegas is considering laying off about 200 employees to save roughly $19 million if needed to balance a budget that has been deeply affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Clark County is establishing a guide on how businesses may reopen safely and also plotting out how it will pay for an estimated $448 million in coronavirus-related costs it expects to incur through 2020.
In the U.S., some states took continued steps to lift the lockdown restrictions that have thrown millions out of work, even as the country recorded thousands of new infections and deaths every day.
The Food and Drug Administration said it took the action because some sellers have made false claims about the tests and their accuracy. Companies will now have to show their tests work or risk having them pulled from the market.
Both figures were well below the averages of the past week, the Southern Nevada Health District reported Tuesday.
The data shows that 22 nursing homes largely in New York City and Long Island have reported at least 40 deaths and that 64 nursing homes have reported between 20 to 49 deaths.
Nevada and other states found it difficult to create a system to pay a small addition on claimants’ paychecks, and experts are now finding not much has changed since 2008.
As governments around the world consider how to monitor new coronavirus outbreaks while reopening their societies, many are starting to bet on smartphone apps to help stanch the pandemic.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say they foiled.
Diagnostic testing for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is available for two days this week at The Orleans to anyone who wants it.
At least 100 pedestrians were wandering the area when the cars began roaring down Times Square’s main drag Saturday.
Rep. Dina Titus urged the Trump administration to redirect money not accepted by large universities with endowments to other institutions in Nevada with large numbers of minority students.
An autopsy Monday found the victim died of drowning, the Charleston County Coroner’s Office said.
At a video-conference summit, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) target being sought to help find a vaccine, new treatments and better tests for the disease would be merely a “down-payment” on the tools that will be needed to fight the virus.
“Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!” Talkin began, dropping the words commanding people “to draw near” to reflect the unusual circumstances.