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American Coronavirus Lawsuits Seek Compensation from China

VOA News By Eunjung Cho WASHINGTON – In less than a month, more than 5,000 Americans have joined a class-action lawsuit in Florida seeking reparations from the Chinese government for COVID-19 damages. The plaintiffs claim to have suffered huge losses due to Beijing’s negligence in containing the virus. Similar class-action lawsuits also were filed in Nevada […]Load more...

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Lawmakers Struggle to Approve Additional Coronavirus Funding

VOA News By Katherine Gypson WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate failed Thursday to pass additional funding to help struggling American workers dealing with the impact of the coronavirus. The attempt came less than two weeks after U.S. lawmakers passed the largest economic relief package in the country’s history.   The measure advanced by Senate Republicans would […]Load more...

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Another 6.6 Million US Workers Claim Jobless Benefits

VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – Another 6.6 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment compensation last week as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the American economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday.   The new figure pushed the three-week total to more than 16 million workers looking for financial assistance, with millions more laid-off […]Load more...

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Bradys Donate 750,000 Meals to Tampa Area

VOA News By Reuters Tom Brady and wife Gisele Bundchen donated funds to provide 750,000 meals to those in need in their new community of Tampa, Fla. Feeding Tampa Bay announced the donation via Twitter on Tuesday. «We welcome @TomBrady, @giseleofficial and their family to our community and thank them as they #StandwithFTB by providing 750,000 […]Load more...

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US Army Hard-Pressed to Build Temporary Hospitals Before COVID-19 Peak

VOA News By Carla Babb PENTAGON – The head of the Army Corps of Engineers is warning that his team is “beginning to run out of time” to build new temporary hospitals to expand capacity to combat the coronavirus across the country.  Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite told reporters Wednesday that the military needed to start construction of temporary hospital […]Load more...

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Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Trump Assails Push for Mail-In Voting

VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump is waging a new political fight against the adoption of mail-in voting rights throughout the U.S., claiming it is rife with possible fraud and would significantly benefit opposition Democrats. Trump himself recently requested an absentee ballot to vote in the Republican presidential primary in Florida, […]Load more...

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Sanders Quits Race, Setting Stage for Trump vs. Biden in

VOA News By Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON – November’s U.S. national presidential election is now set:  President Donald Trump against former Vice President Joe Biden.   The sudden certainty emerged Wednesday as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. He faced dwindling odds against Biden, who is making his […]Load more...

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In Global Life-Death Struggle, Democracy Changes Course

Photo: Police officers check motorist on a road access point to Tandarei, eastern Romania after authorities impose a severe quarantine status on the city VOA News By Jamie Dettmer Outside wartime nothing like it as ever been seen before in modern Western history. The lockdowns by democratic states with their draconian constraints on civil liberties and […]Load more...