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U.S. Jobless Report: 1.3 Million Americans File First Time Unemployment Benefits Last Week

U.S. Jobless Report: 1.3 Million Americans File First Time Unemployment Benefits Last Week

WASHINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – More than 1.3 million Americans filed first time claims for unemployment benefits last week, showing employers are still laying workers off amid another surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The latest round means that 49.8 million Americans made initial jobless benefits claims since the pandemic hit in March. The resurgence has…MORE

Supreme Court: Manhattan DA Can Get Trump Tax Records; Congress Cannot

Supreme Court: Manhattan DA Can Get Trump Tax Records; Congress Cannot

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has upheld a prosecutor’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of a criminal investigation into hush-money payments to women who claim they had affairs with Trump. The court ruled Thursday in a case in which it heard arguments by telephone in May because of…MORE

Worldwide: Texas is the 11th Most Active COVID-19 Hotspot

Worldwide: Texas is the 11th Most Active COVID-19 Hotspot

Texas (WBAP/KLIF) – U.S. COVID-19 cases soared past 3-million Wednesday, accounting for 25% of the world case count for a country that comprises only 4% of world’s population. In Texas, coronavirus cases soared past the 210-thousand as sister station WFAA-TV report, “If the lone star state were a country, it would be the world’s 11th-most…MORE

Texas Resumes Executions After 5-month Delay Due to Pandemic

Texas Resumes Executions After 5-month Delay Due to Pandemic

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate received lethal injection Wednesday evening for fatally shooting an 82-year-old man nearly three decades ago, ending a five-month delay of executions in the nation’s busiest death penalty state because of the coronavirus pandemic. Billy Joe Wardlow was put to death at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the…MORE