Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 92,000 from a revised 590,000 a week earlier.
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Power was restored to more homes and businesses Thursday in states hit by a deadly blast of winter that overwhelmed the electrical grid and left millions shivering in the cold this week.
If projections are true, over the next four weeks hospitals could be overflowing with 75,000 patients — about five times the current level — and an average of 400 people will die a day.
The new rules take effect before midnight in the vast region of Southern California, much of the San Francisco Bay Area and a large swath of the Central Valley.
A former professional baseball player sought in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend in a Phoenix suburb was found dead Saturday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Grand Canyon, police said.
A car wash worker in North Carolina found treasure amid the business’s trash when he discovered a $1,200 IRS stimulus check mixed in with the garbage.
U.S. health regulators on Tuesday OK’d the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home.
In a sign of the disorganized response to the global crisis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised the Chinese government for its help in securing the shipment of the breathing machines.
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