Prospects for a deal fade as the economic recovery shows signs of losing steam, millions of Americans remain unemployed, and deaths climb.
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Canada outpaces U.S., recouping 55% of jobs lost to pandemic
The employment gains were largely expected as provinces moved to more aggressively reopen their economies, prompting businesses to rehire workers.
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College notebook: FCS playoffs unlikely after two more conferences cancel fall season
More than 70 of the 127 Football Championship Subdivision schools have said they will not play this fall, after decisions Friday by the Big Sky Conference and Pioneer League.
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Maine hospitals’ COVID-19 patient counts remain low for another week
Well into the summer tourist season, the numbers of inpatients with the disease remain near the all-time low.
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Second Alabama high school football team – and the band – in 14-day quarantine
The measures are taken at Oneonta High School in Alabama, a town of 6,600 not far from Birmingham, after students show coronavirus symptoms.
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Maine reports 20 new cases of COVID-19, no additional deaths
School districts are keeping a close eye on case numbers as they introduce reopening plans that are keyed to control of virus transmission across the state.
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How Sen. Collins was lobbied to write the PPP exception that benefited hotel chains
The lobbyist who pushed for the change is a former longtime aide to the Maine senator.
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Georgia teens shared photos of maskless students in crowded school hallways. Now they’re suspended.
Paulding County Schools Superintendent Brian Otott told parents and guardians in a letter that the images ‘didn’t look good.’
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U.S. adds 1.8 million jobs in a sign that hiring has slowed
Job growth slowed in July, evidence that the resurgent coronavirus is stalling hiring and slowing an economic rebound.
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The Latest: New reports show racial disparities in kids with COVID-19
The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world. NEW YORK — Racial disparities in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic extend to children, according to two sobering government reports released Friday. One of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports looked at children with COVID-19 who needed hospitalization. Hispanic children were […]