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The third round of U.S. stimulus payments is well on its way out the door, just days after President Joe Biden signed his $1.9 trillion stimulus bill into law. For some, the question now is what to do with the money.

The $1,400 checks are coming at a complex time for many Americans. Millions are still unemployed and in desperate need of the cash, which comes in addition to unemployment

Attorney General Merrick Garland deflected questions about whether the Justice Department is investigating legal violations by former President Donald Trump and about the reach of the ongoing probe into the U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6 at his first congressional oversight hearing since he arrived to run the Justice Department seven months ago.

Garland, who had been an appeals court

For the past several weeks, Dr. Boghuma Titanji has been swamped with questions about COVID-19 vaccine boosters. Even the experts seem confused, she says.

"I'm even getting questions from my colleagues, who are doctors, asking me, 'What should I do?' " says the infectious disease specialist at Emory University.

The messaging from public health officials has flipped-flopped so

Border Patrol agents have made more than a million arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border so far this year, already higher than any full-year total since at least 2005, according to new Customs and Border Protection figures released Friday.

Agents made more than 178,000 arrests in June, a 3% increase over the prior month.

The number of migrants traveling as families crossing the