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NEARLY A YEAR and a half ago, covid-19 was spreading rapidly across the rich world and countries were starting to lock down. Millions were left unable to work as everything from factories and building sites to shops and restaurants closed. The number of hours worked in the mostly rich economies in the OECD fell by 15%; in the biggest, America, the unemployment rate rocketed from 3.5% in

Twitter announced Wednesday that it will remove tweets making false or misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccinations.

Any tweets claiming that vaccines “intentionally cause harm to control populations” or invoke conspiracy theories will be subject to removal, according to Twitter’s blog post. Tweets falsely suggesting that COVID-19 doesn’t exist or espouse “widely debunked” claims may

The 2020 presidential election concluded with a political and constitutional crisis unmatched in the United States since the 1876 election. Congress should respond, as it did after 1876, by shoring up and clarifying the process for resolving presidential elections with disputed outcomes. That will require the votes of Senate Republicans, who should support reforming the Electoral Count Act as

Unemployed California workers should begin receiving an extra $300 in weekly unemployment payments starting in early September, according to a state labor agency disclosure.

The additional unemployment payments are being provided to states nationwide through the U.S. government’s Lost Wages Assistance Program that is tapping funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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