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Congress recently passed a more than $2 trillion coronavirus pandemic assistance bill, a portion of which is designed explicitly to help the unemployed and their families. But how likely is it that those families will be able to apply for and receive those benefits or even learn of their existence?…

Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times: The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead  —  There will be no quick return to our previous lives, according to nearly two dozen experts.  But there is hope for managing the scourge now and in the long term.  —  The coronavirus is…

Tepper, who has a history of donating to natural disaster relief, has given out $22 million so far. ASSOCIATED PRESS David Tepper has a history of stepping in after natural disasters.The hedge fund manager pitched in after Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey and New York in 2012 and after Hurricane…

Walt Disney World has decided to furlough 43,000 union employees as the Florida theme park remains closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Services Trade Council Union, Disney confirmed on Sunday that the company reached an agreement to maintain health insurance and other benefits during the furlough, which…

"I've never been to his zoo and I didn't even know he had tigers," the country singer said of her meeting with the zookeeper years ago Miranda Lambert is explaining a previous meet-up with Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage. After sharing a few photos of herself with the Tiger King star…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Two and a half years ago Hurricane Maria ripped open homes across the southern Puerto Rican city of Ponce, destroying the rickety electrical grid and sending thousands of…

Woman relaxing on a hammock on a tropical beach. Getty As we head into mid-April, many of the states in the U.S. have surging numbers of new cases of COVID-19, with more hospitalizations, more ICU admissions, more ventilated patients, and more deaths. We see the maps daily, with curves based…

Gov. Brian Kemp announced Easter Sunday that the state will convert part of the sprawling Georgia World Congress Center into a 200-bed hospital for coronavirus patients, as Christians observed the holiest day for the faith by largely abiding by the governor’s pleas to stay home and watch services online. The epidemic also…

If you're looking for information related to the current closures and their effect on the Disney Parks, click here for all the up-to-date details and click here for answers to dozens of reader FAQs.If you have tried to buy toilet paper in the last month OR you suddenly have a…

Adam Bernstein / Washington Post: Darran Simon, Washington Post journalist, dies at 43  —  Darran Simon, a journalist who developed an expertise reporting on trauma during a wide-ranging career that had recently brought him to The Washington Post, where he covered District politics and government, was found dead April 9…