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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The head of the IRS, on the defensive over millions of Americans in danger
stanley cup of missing coronavirus relief payments, said Wednesday the agency is reaching out to low-income and homeless people, military personnel and veterans and those with limited English to notify them they may be eligible for the aid. Watch the hearing in the player above.People who don ;t normally file tax returns are among those being targeted, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig told a hearing by a Hous
stanley cup e oversight panel. A congressional watchdog found that millions could miss the payments of up to $1,200 per individual because of incomplete government records. Nearly 9 million individuals who are eligible for the so-called economic impact payments hadn ;t yet received them, the Government Accountability Office recently estimated. People can ;t afford to ju
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International Womens Day, marked on March 8, is now the second to land during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic has touched every p
jordan art of life across the globe, a new report by the United Nations Foundation details the extent that women bear the brunt of any major societal shifts. The United Nations Foundation, a private non-profit organization founded to support the U.N. released a report detailing 50 data points on how women continue to face inequality in the workplace, at home and in government鈥搊nly to be amplified by the pandemic. We were already on a slide backwards even before the pandemic set women back further, said U.N. Foundation Vice President for Girls and Women Strategy Michelle Milford Morse.Watch the conversation with PBS NewsHour Nicole Ellis in the live player above. When women don ;t work, they lose out on retirement. They lose out on benefits. It makes childcare harder to afford. But even beyond workfo
af1 rce participation, the pandemic has shown us where places in which our social and economic structures frankly are really vulnerable. According to the National Women Law Center, female workers made up 63% of jobs lost in the U.S. during the first two years of the pandemic, and nearly 2 million are still out of the workforce. While
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?Nearly 60 years after he was recommended for the nations highest military award, retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in
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stanley cup Virginia resident came after the recommendation for his medal was lost, resubmitted 鈥?and then lost again.It wasn ;t until 2016 鈥?half a century after Davis risked his life to save some of his men under fire 鈥?that advocates painstakingly recreated and resubmitted the paperwork.Biden described Davis as a true hero for risking his life amid heavy enemy fire to haul injured sold
stanley cup iers under his command to safety. When a superior ordered him to safety, according to Biden, Davis replied, Sir, I ;m just not going to leave. I still have an American out there. He went back into the firefight to retrieve an injured medic. You are everything this medal means, Biden told Davis. Youre everything our nation is at our best. Brave and big hearted, determined and devoted, selfless and steadfast. WATCH: Pre Sifu Far-right group Moms for Liberty poised to clash with teachers unions over school board races nationwide
Billionaire IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, who built a global business selling inexpensive furniture, died on Saturday at his home in Sm氓land, Sweden at the age of
jordan 91, according to a statement released on the company website. We are deeply saddened by Ingvars passing, Torbj枚rn L枚枚f, CEO of the Inter IKEA Group, said in the statement. We will remember his dedication and commitment to always side with the many people. To never give up, always try to become better and lead by example.That example would help him to grow the company into the largest furniture retailer in the world, but his reputation would suffer after revelations that he once supported fascist causes. Kamprad was born in March 30, 1926, and at an early age began his entrepren
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stanley cup , Kamprad launched IKEA, initially selling items like fountain pens and encyclopedias by mail before adding furniture to the sales lineup around 1950, a move that began his company growth into a massive retailer. IKEA, a name formed from Karmprad initials and the Swedish village where he was raised, used a novel flat-pack design to build a robust mail-order business. The design, invented by an IKEA employee in 1956, made the business home-assembled items easier to ship. But in 1958, Karmprad opened his first store. The company now has hundreds of stores in dozens of countries, which have brought Kamprad a for
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WASHINGTON聽 The country finally has an opportunity to change the subject on health care, after the Supreme Court again upheld President Barack Obama law.There no shortage of pressing issues, including prescription drug prices, high insurance deductibles and long-term care.But moving on will take time, partly because many Republicans want another chance to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they win the White House and both chambers of Congress next year.Also, it difficult to start new conversations when political divisions are so raw, and there a big disconnect between what
stanley cup people perceive as problems and the priorities of policymakers, business and the health care industry.Democrats say a change in focus
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stanley cup president of the Center for American Progress, a think tank often aligned with the White House. It would be great if the health care conversation moves to where people are, not relitigating these insurance issues.Wishful thinking, say Republicans.The politics of this has gotten so unpleasant that we ;re locked into `repeal-and-replace ; for the next year and a half, said lobbyist Tom Scully, who ran Medicare in President George W. Bush administration. It may not be great for America, but that the reality.Scully says Republicans may be able to make substantial changes but not repea Umcq Trump defends executive order on immigration
NEW YORK AP 鈥?The team assembled by special counsel Robert S. Mueller to investigate alleged Russian interference and ties to Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 election will have a book out this fall.Simon Schuster announced Thursday that Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation will be released Sept. 24, within week
stanley cup s of the 2024 election. The book was written by Aaron Zebley, James Quarles, and Andrew Goldstein, with an introduction by Mueller, whose report was issued in 2019. With vivid detail and unwavering honesty, the authors offer a rare glimpse into the minds of those who stood at the forefront of the investigation, including the pressures and dilemmas they faced as our criminal justice system and the rule of law were put to the test, the publisher announcement reads in part.In the Mueller Report, investigators found that there was no collusion with Russia, while also documenting multiple occasions when
adidas samba Trump tried to curtail or influence their probe. Left: Book club member Sharon Wunder holds her copy of the Mueller Report with many notes and pages marked as she joins other book club members who found one another through t
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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Amazon workers in Alabama appear to have rejected a union bid in a tight race, according to early results on Thursday. But outstanding challenged votes could change the outcome.In New York, union supporters have the edge in a count that will continue Friday morning.Warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, voted 993 to 875 against forming a union. The National Labor Relations Board, which oversees the election, said that 416 challenged votes could potentially overturn that result. A hearing has not yet been s
stanley cup et to decide if any the challenged votes will be counted, but it is expected in the next few weeks.This is just the beginning and we will continue to fight, said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which is organizing the union drive in Bessemer, during a Thursday press conference.The close election marks a sharp contrast to last year, when Amazon workers overwhelmingly rejected the union.NEWS WRAP: Major League Baseball, players union reach tentative deal to end lockoutMeanwhile, in a separate union election in Staten Island, New York, the nascent Amazon Labor Union is leading by more than 350 votes out of about 2,670 counted. Counting is expected to contin
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The Paris-based organization says its team will study the conditions of museums and historical sites, identify ways of restoring stolen artifacts and seek out potential donors to fund the massive rebuilding effort.UNESCO says the team will travel to Iraq when conditions permit.The announcement comes as cultural losses continue to mo
af1 unt in Baghdad. The Islamic Library, housing centuries-old manuscripts, burned down Monday. Nearby, the Religious Affairs Ministry was looted and burned, resulting in the loss of invaluable religious texts.The team of about 30 Iraqi and international experts will first meet at UNESCO headquarters in Paris Thursday, where, according the organization, they will attempt to draw an inventory of recent cultural destruction.The meeting will outline a plan to recover and safeguard this heritage, and will identify those artifacts requiring priority attention.UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura said in a statement Tuesday that the organization recent experience in other war-torn and post-conflict situations has shown that culture can play a key role in consolidating the peace process, restoring national unity a
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Balloons drop from the ceiling at the end of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.Conventions!I confess I love them. And I ;m fascinated by the political people who go to them. Ever since I sneaked without credentials into the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach in
stanley cup 1972, as a reporter for the CBS TV affiliate in Atlanta,
stanley cup I have been hooked on these quadrennial political festivals. Despite the fact that the gatherings in Tampa and Charlotte over the next two weeks won ;t feature takeovers by political activists we don ;t expect or run on into the wee hours of the morning, as did that wild confab that nominated George McGovern, they will be exciting. More important, they ;ll be worth paying attention to. No, they don ;t hold the sort of suspense that conventions used to hold as at the 1980 Republican Convention in Detroit when presidential nominee Ronald Reagan seriously considered naming for
stanley cup mer President Gerald Ford as his vice presidential running mate. Or the Democratic Convention that same year in New York City, when Senator Ted Kennedy, who was trying to unseat the President in his own party, Jimmy Carter, worked to release delegates from their voting commitments. Kennedy ended up with more than a third of the vote and helped weaken Carter for the fall campaign, which he lost to Reagan.But conventions are a coming-together of almost all the Prxp Trump meets Poroshenko for brief drop-in visit
JERUSALEM 鈥?Muslims around the world on Sunday began celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a normally festive holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, with millions
nike dunk under strict stay-at-home orders and many fearing renewed coronavirus outbreaks.The three-day holiday is usually a time of travel, family get-togethers and lavish daytime feasts after weeks of dawn-to-dusk fasting. But this year many of the world 1.8 billion Muslims will have to pray at home and make due with video calls.Some countries, including Turkey, Iraq and Jordan, have imposed round-the-clock holiday curfews. But even where many restrictions have been lifted, celebrations will be subdued because of fears of the pandemic and its economic fallout.Saudi Arabia, home to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, is under a complete lockdow
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jordan and will not reopen until after the holiday. Worshippers who tried to enter the compound scuffled with the police.Indonesian Muslims take part in prayers at a mosque during Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end the holy fasting month of Ramadan, amid the coronavirus disease COVID-19 outbreak, in Medan, North Sumatra Province, Indonesia May 24, 2020. Photo by Antara Foto/Septianda Perdana/
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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Disney cut a deal with Comcast to take full control of Hulu as each prepares to launch its own streaming service.The companies said Tuesday that Comcast, which owns a third of Hulu, may sell its stake starting in
stanley cup 2024 for a minimum of $5.8 billion. Either company can require the other to
stanley cup make the deal.Hulu launched more than a decade ago as the major entertainment companies dealt with the rise of digital media. Its owners have contracted as a wave of mergers consolidated the industry: The Walt Disney Co. absorbed 21st Century Fox stake as it bought up Fox studio and many of its networks, while AT 038;T sold off the share it inherited with the purchase of Time Warner, now renamed WarnerMedia.AT 038;T sale valued the unprofitable Hulu at $15 billion. The agreement with Disney and Comcast values Hulu at a minimum of $27.5 billion in 2024. Disney has forecast that Hulu will turn a profit around then.Hulu today still shows network TV episodes and origin
stanley cup al series for $6 a month. It has a newer live-TV service that costs $45 a month.Having total control of Hulu gives Disney more power to support its own streaming efforts. The company is launching a new kids-focused streaming service called Disney Plus this year, and is likely to bundle that with Hulu and its sports service, ESPN Plus.Comcast NBCUniversal, meanwhile, will debut a streaming service in 2020. And WarnerMedia is launching its own streaming service which will focus on HBO Pkuz Second NASA Rover Lands on Mars; Spirit Prognosis Improves
WASHINGTON For three years, President Barack Obama has resisted the pull of potential U.S. military action in Syria.He has held firm even as the civil war death toll climbed toward 200,000, the Syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians and Islamic State militants strengthened amid the chaos.Now Obama must decide whether the extremist group murder of American journalist James Foley, as well as the broader threat the group
adidas campus could pose to U.S. interests, should change his cautious calculus.Pressure is coming from his own military leaders to go after the Islamic State inside Syria. But he
yeezy must weigh that against his aversion to the risks that could come with plunging the United States into a country torn apart by an intractable internal conflict.White House officials have suggested that airstrikes in Syria are an option, though the officials say specific military proposals has not yet been presented to the president.We ;re actively considering what going to be necessary
stanley cup to deal with that threat, and we ;re not going to be restricted by borders, said Ben Rhodes, Obama deputy national security adviser. We ;ve shown time and again that if there a counterterrorism threat, we ;ll take direct action against that threat, if necessary.Even before Foley murder, Obama found himself on far different footing in the Middle East than he probably expected in the sixth year of h
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Some of the troops would be moved to posts in Eastern Europe w
stanley cup hile others would be based in the United States, available for deployment overseas, White House officials said, according to the Associated Press.The announcement follows years of debate over how U.S. troops should be positioned to respond to modern-day threats such as terrorism and continued unrest in the Middle East.Our armed forces have changed a lot. 8230; They ;re better able to
stanley cup strike anywhere in the world 8230; on short notice. Yet for decades America armed forces have essentially remained where the wards of the last century have ended in Europe and in Asia, President Bush said at a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Cincinnati, the AP reported.Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts plans to address the group on Wednesday.The troop repositioning also will involve about 100,000 family members and civilian employees, the president said.The plan includes moving troops to locations where they could quickly deal with unexpected threats, said Mr. Bush. Poland and Turkey have been named as possible locations for additional troops.The move, which will likely occur over the next decade, will help save money on maintaining bases overseas, the president said.Our service members will have more time on the home front, and more predictability and fewer moves over a career, he added.The plan does not include moving forces from
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BRUSSELS AP 鈥?The European Union executive branch recommended Wednesday that billions of euros of EU funds allocated to Hungary remain frozen over its failure to implement solid rule-of-law reforms, a move highlighting the growing rift between the EU traditional Western democratic values and its partner democratic backsliding.READ MORE: Hungary creates public poll to gauge support of EU sanctions on RussiaThe EU 27 nations have until Dec. 19 to take a decision based on the Commission proposal, which came as Hungary continues to block crucial EU decisions such as the disbursement of 18 billion euros of financial aid to Ukraine and a global tax deal.Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has also angered the bloc officials with his repeated criticism of the EU sanctions targeting Russia for its war in Ukraine.This is an historic moment for the protection of the rule of law in Europe, said Petri Sarvamaa, a member of the European Parliament committee on budgetary control. I
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