Summary: The Loudoun County school system is doling out more than $1.6 million to pay for one-time bonuses to thank staff for their hard work during the pandemic, but…

Summary: California regulators have approved revised worksite pandemic rules that allow fully vaccinated employees the same freedoms as when they are off the job.

Summary: Human behavior is notoriously difficult to change, but a disruption of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to bring about long-term behavioral changes. During the pandemic, people have been forced to experience new ways of interacting, working, learning, shopping, traveling, and eating meals. A critical question going forward is how these experiences have actually changed preferences and habits in ways that might persist after the pandemic ends. Many observers have suggested

Summary: Low-income families could benefit.

Summary: With the pandemic waning, Californians who receive unemployment benefits will next month have to start showing that they are looking for work

Summary: Like other attorneys in San Francisco, Deputy Public Defender Chris Garcia has a backlog of cases that just won’t stop piling up.

Summary: Delivery services routinely add restaurants to their apps without asking them. Legislators want to make that illegal.

Summary: While the pandemic made many commuters wary of public transportation, some turned to personal mobility devices for their travels.

Summary: 'If I knew what I know now, I would have definitely went through with the vaccination,' Joshua Garza said.

Summary: The pandemic has taken a massive toll on people's mental health. But a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms what

Summary: Low-income families could benefit.

Summary: A new CDC study finds that people who provide unpaid care for their children or adult loved ones are twice as likely as noncaregivers to have experienced depression or anxiety, or thoughts of suicide.

Summary: 17,500 private sector jobs were added last month.

Summary: Rebecca Walser of Walser Wealth Management discusses unemployment benefits, wages and the current work environment.

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Summary: Singh urged the federal government to abandon the CRB reduction, in what som see as a bid to frame the NDP as the party of compassion ahead of a potential fall…

Summary: 17,500 private sector jobs were added last month.

Summary: 17,500 private sector jobs were added last month.

Summary: A year ago, at the start of the pandemic, nearly 1.5 million Americans a week were applying for unemployment assistance.

Summary: Mexico's economy grew 24.8% in May compared with the same month last year, as a recovery from a slump induced by the coronavirus pandemic gathered pace, a preliminary estimate published by national statistics agency INEGI showed on Thursday.

Summary: "Oral drugs that could be taken at home early in the course of disease would be powerful tools for battling the pandemic and saving lives,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a statement.

Summary: Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser discusses how the company has adapted to the pandemic, and how the PS5 and Xbox Series X have impacted the Switch.

Summary: COVID Women Help is an initiative that helps widowed women financially and professionally.

Summary: Stuck in India, Johannah was separated from her family in Australia because of border closures.

Summary: Note: The year-over-year occupancy comparisons are easy, since occupancy declined sharply at the onset of the pandemic.  So STR is comparing...

Summary: Released on Thursday, the latest REACT-1 study showed a 50% rise in Covid infections since the last results were released in May, with unvaccinated young people behind the growing epidemic throughout England.

Summary: UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) - The Caribbean Public Health Agency is banking on high-quality research to inform policy, programming and clinical practice, amid ‘unceasing’ public health challenges. In 1956, the Caribbean held its first major scientific meeting, organised by the Standing Advisory Committee for Medical Research in the British Caribbean. At the time, the Mayaro Virus, a dengue-like viral disease often called ‘jungle flu’ had just been identified as a new human disease agent by W.G

Summary: Village Well Books & Coffee opened in L.A.'s worst pandemic month, on a famously doomed corner. For owner Jennifer Caspar, it was all a lucky break.

Summary: Countries urged to take urgent action on managing water and land and tackling the climate emergency

Summary: Workers of a franchisee that runs five Starbucks stores at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport are asking the city council not to provide millions of dollars in rent relief due to a lack of additional staff being hired.

Summary: The world is calling on China to cooperate with investigations into the source of SARS-CoV-2. Will this pressure be fruitful — or could it backfire?

Summary: Climate advocates say failure to share vaccines could signal to developing countries that wealthy nations will leave them behind on climate

Summary: The number of Americans filing for first-time jobless benefits unexpectedly rose off a pandemic low last week, according to the Labor Department.

Summary: Armin Laschet, the front-runner to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor, called for the reinstatement of European Union budget rules once the pandemic is over as he outlined plans for a somewhat more assertive Germany after September’s election.

Summary: Pope Francis is championing the right of all workers to unionize, as economic activity is poised to increase after the pandemic

Summary: The man collecting the Loma Linda hospital's COVID victims was all but invisible

Summary: The number of Americans filing for first-time jobless benefits unexpectedly rose off a pandemic low last week, according to the Labor Department.

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Summary: It's still a mystery. How did the pandemic begin? There is the leading hypothesis among scientists: The virus hopped from an animal — possibly a bat —

Summary: The first rise in new jobless claims since April. | Economy

Summary: Canada’s banking regulator raised a key capital requirement for large domestic banks, a signal that it considers the economic risks of the Covid-19 pandemic to have largely subsided.

Summary: WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time since April despite widespread evidence that the economy and the job market are rebounding steadily from the pandemic recession.

Summary: Exclusive: firm could charge more in places such as Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka once Covid pandemic is over

Summary: A summit of government ministers is trying to tackle the iniquities of Covid-19 vaccine distribution that could cost millions of lives.

Summary: The European Union has endorsed a pandemic recovery plan for Greece worth 30.5 billion euros ($36.4 billion), providing vital relief for the eurozone member’s shaken economy

Summary: Global conflicts declined over past year but uncertainty rose due to the pandemic, says a new report.

Summary: Audit Scotland says supplies of items such as gowns and masks ran very low in April last year

Summary: Bold policy changes are needed now to save lives.

Summary: Young people with poor mental health took a turn for the better during the pandemic but those with good mental health saw a considerable decline, new research reveals. The first nationally representative evidence regarding the diverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health in

Summary: Vacation-rental brands are jostling to persuade owners to list homes on their sites as properties are in short supply in certain outdoor destinations.

Summary: Pianist Glenn Gould proved long ago that an existence heavily mediated by technology is not nonexistence.

Summary: Dr. Martens (DOCS.L), the classic British boot brand that listed its shares in January, said it had shown its resilience during the coronavirus crisis, delivering annual revenue growth of 15% despite multiple lockdowns which shuttered stores.

Summary: The U.S. Open tennis tournament will allow 100% spectator capacity throughout its entire two weeks in 2021, a year after spectators were banned from t...

Summary: Now is the perfect time to leverage the "fresh start" effect to revamp your routine.

Summary: Countries that did nothing about travel early on made the pandemic impossible to stop, former NZ PM and the investigation into the virus said.

Summary: Businesses have run up an "unprecedented" amount of debt in the pandemic, say industry groups.

Summary: After suffering a severe crash back in 2018, this cryptocurrency has bounced back.

Summary: Australia has raised the age for which the AstraZeneca vaccine is recommended to 60 from 50 after the shot was blamed for a 52-year-old woman’s death last week from blood clots in the brain

Summary: The MTA announces that the subway system carried over 2.4 million customers last Friday, the highest number since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020.

Summary: Brazil hikes interest rate, eyeing inflation

Summary: Japan's slow vaccine rollout is gathering pace and infections are starting to fall but some kind of “quasi-emergency” will likely be in force during the Olympics.

Summary: ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Summary: Businesses have run up an "unprecedented" amount of debt in the pandemic, say industry groups.

Summary: Branch will not disappear but their roles will change to customer services as customers shift to digital banking amid pandemic, bankers said.

Summary: While finding affordable child care in the U.S. was difficult before the pandemic, several factors are making returning to the workplace now especially tough for parents. And women often bear the brunt of the problem.

Summary: CHINESE scientists have said coronavirus emerged in the US and France long before it was reported in Wuhan.

Summary: U.S.|Overbooked law schools are trying to induce some students to put off enrolling.

Summary: Many city leaders across the nation lacked the will to go on after a year like no other.

Summary: Jim Cramer says Fed Chair Jay Powell knows it's better to get people back to work sooner, and worry about inflation later.

Summary: Migrants working away from their families made significant sacrifices to send money home last year as they did before COVID, UN chief António Guterres said on Wednesday, warning that now is not the time for countries to withdraw their support to these key workers.

Summary: The pandemic has provided a window into my kids’ previously opaque lives and I am all the better father for it, says the Financial Times' Joshua ...

Summary: Both right-wing and left-wing extremism flourished during the pandemic year, Germany's domestic intelligence agency said in its latest report. But the security forces have themselves come under new scrutiny.

Summary: Republicans just killed outdoor dining in Pennsylvania

Summary: In rural Başkale in eastern Turkey, medical teams have spent months traveling into the mountains to deliver vaccine doses to 120 villages.

Summary: The headaches began with problems with a weather data supplier on Monday, then technical troubles on Tuesday, and the issues spilled over into Wednesday.

Summary: “Motor lodges.” “High-end motels.” “Exterior-corridor hotels.” Whatever you call them, the “motorist’s hotel” has gotten a boost these past 15 months. Now about that reputation …

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Summary: A report from the UN Security Council (UNSC) Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) has warned that the Covid pandemic likely increased factors that contribute to terrorism, despite not finding clear signs of increased violence.

Summary: An influx of homeless people into Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood after an emergency move by New York City to ease crowding in shelters has been a fact of pandemic life for the neighborhood since last spring.

Summary: From the ongoing global chip shortage to the lingering effect of the coronavirus pandemic, the agenda for Wednesday’s CNBC Evolve Global Summit is packed, to put it mildly. It's also the first global event for the business news network.

Summary: Greg Wilkey, principal of East Side Elementary in Chattanooga, Tenn, wrote a moving letter to staff reflecting on the pandemic year. The letter was so good that it spread on Facebook and was even c…

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Summary: Ivory Coast's economy is projected to grow by 6.5% in 2021, up from 2% last year, despite an ongoing electricity supply crisis, the government spokesman said on Wednesday.

Summary: The C.D.C. named Delta a “variant of concern” as it spreads through the U.S. California’s formal unwinding of pandemic rules is another signal of a national turn toward recovery.

Summary: The Mexican resort of Cozumel has welcomed the first arrival of a cruise ship carrying passengers since the coronavirus pandemic essentially collapsed the industry

Summary: NEW YORK-HOMELESS/ (TV, PIX):New York grapples with growing presence of homeless in midtown Manhattan

Summary: Fredericton-based Introhive has closed a $121.3 million CAD ($100 million USD) Series C round of funding.

Summary: Even though Californians will be able to fill stadiums, concert venues, bars and restaurants, Gov. Gavin Newsom says the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over.

Summary: The U.K. is set to extend its ban on evictions of commercial tenants until next year to protect Covid 19-hit businesses from losing their premises while pandemic restrictions are still in place.

Summary: Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) is facing a lawsuit over his decision to end pandemic&nbs...

Summary: The CEO of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis outlined how policymakers and the health industry can improve pandemic preparedness.

Summary: Delayed since March 2020, the horror film ironically forces us to contend with our fragile humanity—and perhaps shows us where to go.

Summary: Most payments by consumers are spontaneous but options were limited by the Covid crisis., say banks.

Summary: Today, three — yes, THREE — different drivers flipped me off because I had interfered with their right to 1)drive very fast on the wrong side of the road or 2)park their car in the active lane at a…

Summary: An influx of homeless people into Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood after an emergency move by New York City to ease crowding in shelters has been a fact of pandemic life for the neighborhood since last spring.

Summary: Former adviser says PM trying to ‘rewrite history’ and ‘cannot now be trusted on Covid’

Summary: China’s recovery from the pandemic relies on the same drivers of growth that powered the country before the pandemic, with the same underlying risks.

Summary: On grief’s unequal racial burden, and the Internet as a vehicle to negotiate survival and turn collective grief into collective action.

Summary: SYDNEY — All across the Asia-Pacific region, the countries that led the world in containing the coronavirus are now languishing in the race to put it behind them.

Summary: Special education services were severely disrupted when schools closed in spring 2020. In many places, they have yet to fully resume. Now, families are demanding schools take action.