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August 15, 2020

Walmart increases store hours after cutting them in March

After five months of operating with reduced hours amid the coronavirus pandemic, Walmart will increase hours by 90 minutes at 85% of stores across the nation. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, reduced hours March 15 ,and then cut them again that same week to 8:30 p.m. “As we continue reopening our operations, the health and safety of our associates, customers and communities will guide our decisions,” Walmart said in a statement to USA TODAY on Friday. “By August 17, more than 4,000 of our 4,700 Walmart stores will expand their closing time from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., providing customers with more options to shop for the food, medicine and supplies they need.”

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020

Mortgage rates hit another all-time low

The average interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to a record low of 2.88% this past week, according to Freddie Mac. That’s the lowest level in the nearly 50 years of the mortgage giant’s survey.

ear fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 2.44%. The low rates give potential home buyers more purchasing power and should strengthen demand in the real estate market, Freddie Mac said.

July 30, 2020

Mystery seeds from China are landing in Americans’ mailboxes

The USDA and agriculture officials across the U.S. have issued warnings about unsolicited shipments of foreign seeds and advised people not to plant them. Officials are concerned the mystery seeds, which appear to have originated in China, could be invasive plant species. CBS News has confirmed that residents in all 50 states have now reported receiving suspicious packages of seeds. “USDA is aware that people across the country have received suspicious, unsolicited packages of seed that appear to be coming from China,” the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) said in a statement Tuesday.

July 24, 2020

Are Trump and the GOP right that the $600 unemployment bonus is discouraging work?

July 21, 2020

New York cautiously reopens as coronavirus surges elsewhere in US

New York state reported the fewest hospitalisations from the coronavirus in four months on Monday just as New York City entered a new phase of reopening, but the progress was eclipsed by the rapid spread of COVID-19 elsewhere in the United States.

July 17, 2020

Trump’s push to reopen the US economy backfires

Trump’s handling of the pandemic is not winning over the American public. Opinion polls suggest Trump is trailing his Democratic opponent Joe Biden by an average of more than eight percentage points. Biden leads in the key states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Florida that are likely to turn the election. “The president has a governing problem that has become a political problem,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “He has failed to stop the spread of this disease.

July 14, 2020

China sanctions US politicians in retaliation

China has announced retaliatory sanctions against a group of United States politicians, including Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, days after Washington blacklisted a number of Chinese politicians for alleged human rights abuses of the Uighur minority.

July 9, 2020

As Coronavirus Cases Top 3 Million, Fauci Warns Against Misreading

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, cautioned on Tuesday that it was a “false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,” which President Trump, top White House officials and several governors have stressed in recent days. Dr. Fauci’s comments came at an event Tuesday with Senator Doug Jones, Democrat of Alabama, as the United States surpassed three million cases on Tuesday, and some states that had hoped to be getting back to normal by now have instead been forced to reinstate restrictions and issue mandatory mask orders.

July 6, 2020

U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Near 130,000; Florida And Texas Report

Nearly 130,000 people in the United States have died from the coronavirus and more than 2,800,000 people have been infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both Florida and Texas reported their biggest daily rise in new confirmed cases over the past few days, with Florida reporting 11,443 new resident cases on Saturday and another 9,999 on Sunday.

July 2, 2020

Covid-19 will ‘disappear’ after US reports record one-day increase

Donald Trump has said he believes the coronavirus will “just disappear”, as the Us recorded 52,000 new cases on Wednesday according to Johns Hopkins figures, a new all-time daily high.