‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panel give reaction and analysis Headed into 2021, the U.S. faces a surge in coronavirus cases, new restrictions on business, cautious holiday shopping and slowing economic growth. Forecasters anticipate that the Labor Department’s December jobs report, due to be released Friday, will show the labor market closed the year on […]
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Health experts warn of tough holiday season for seniors
Health experts are warning that the holiday season poses an increased COVID-19 threat to older Americans, who are already one of the most vulnerable demographics. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 1 million coronavirus cases have been reported since Nov. 23, despite recommendations that […]
Gyms make tough decisions with new COVID-19 restrictions in place
“These are not going to be outrageously low prices. They’re going to be pretty close to what you’d find anywhere that you’re fitness equipment shopping. We’re really looking at this sale as, how can we get a big influx of revenue that will meet our demands for the next couple […]
Biden Faces Tough Choice Over COVID-19 Lockdowns
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic. For now, it’s a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid. In the week since he defeated President Donald Trump, Biden has devoted most […]
Biden faces tough choice of whether to back virus lockdowns
President-elect Joe Biden wavs as he leaves The Queen theater, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Carolyn Kaster AP WASHINGTON Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic. For now, it’s a question the […]
Why this year has been particularly tough for models struggling with their mental health
Looking back it seems almost incredible that there was nowhere to turn for objective, professional advice , given how endemic mental health issues are in modelling. The super successful aren’t immune either. Jodie Kidd told me that anxiety about her modelling career and how she looked, caused her to stop eating, to […]
Amidst a tough and sad year, a Halifax choir creates a concert of communal lament
HALIFAX — In a year of pandemic, mass murder and military tragedies, a choir on Canada’s East Coast has created a concert that gives singers, a poet and their online audience an outlet for communal lament. © Provided by The Canadian Press The 27-member Halifax Camerata Singers choir has prepared […]
Families make tough decision to pursue virtual education | News
The COVID-19 pandemic required some families to make tough choices on their children’s education this year. Families had to decide what option to pursue if they were not able to allow their children to return to the school building this fall because of circumstances. Jacob and Samantha Graven had that […]
Russia shuns tough restrictions even as infections soar
MOSCOW (AP) — It’s Friday night in Moscow, and popular bars and restaurants in the city center are packed. No one except the staff is wearing a mask or bothers to keep their distance. There is little indication at all that Russia is being swept by a resurgence of coronavirus […]
Russia Shuns Tough Restrictions Even as Infections Soar | Business News
By DARIA LITVINOVA, Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — It’s Friday night in Moscow, and popular bars and restaurants in the city center are packed. No one except the staff is wearing a mask or bothers to keep their distance. There is little indication at all that Russia is being swept […]
Getting Health Care Was Already Tough In Rural Areas. The Pandemic Has Made It Worse
Even when there isn’t a pandemic, finding the right doctor can be tough in rural eastern Ohio. Reid Davis, 21, and his mother Crystal live in Jefferson County, which hugs the Ohio River near West Virginia. Their home is surrounded by farms, hayfields and just a few neighbors. “To the […]
Battleground voters not buying Trump’s tough talk on China, new poll shows
WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump casting himself as the only candidate strong enough to take on China, voters in key battleground states don’t share his view of Beijing as an urgent threat to the U.S., a new poll finds. Just 1 in 5 call standing up to China a […]
Two weeks in, Detroit parents question tough choices about school
DETROIT — A few days before the start of the eighth grade, Jonah Beasley considered the risks he’d face when he walked back into the classroom and summed them up in stark terms. He could get Covid-19 from a classmate or a teacher, he said, and “if I get it, […]
Georgia School District to Teachers With Health Problems: Tough Luck
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Getty Georgia teacher Samantha Mbozi hasn’t even entered a grocery store in the last six months. The 51-year-old just finished chemotherapy a year ago and is taking immunosuppressive drugs for two other illnesses. Her doctor told her strict quarantine could be a […]
Twitter gets tough on hydroxychloroquine, fake cures; Cuomo gets hot over The Chainsmokers concert
President Donald Trump called the Senate Republicans’ coronavirus economic stimulus package “semi-relevant” as the U.S. approaches 150,000 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday. The president told reporters Tuesday the $1 trillion package proposal has provisions that he doesn’t support. Twitter continued a crackdown on tweets about fake cures that has already ensnared the […]
Miami-Dade finds justice reform a tough task two months after George Floyd’s death
The proposal before Miami-Dade commissioners called for a study on using mental-health specialists instead of police on some 911 calls. It wasn’t an easy request. “I strongly oppose something like this that is going to put at risk the lives of the residents that pay the taxes … in an […]
Sacramento’s YouTubers thrive in a tough economy by adapting to the pandemic
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, instructors and entertainers across industries have shifted their content online. Sacramento’s YouTubers were already providing similar services. How-to tutorials, people playing video games, home workout videos and comedy skits have reeled in YouTube views for years. And most of these videos, which contribute […]