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A 'Help Wanted' sign is posted beside Coronavirus health safety guidelines at a restaurant in Los Angeles on May 28. Businesses are desperate for workers even as millions remain unemployed. Republican governors blame a major unemployment benefit passed during the pandemic, saying it's dissuading people from rejoining the workforce.

A Lifeline For The Unemployed Is About To End In Half Of U.S. Here's What's At Stake

Republican governors are moving to end $300-a-week pandemic payments for the unemployed in a controversial effort to push people back to work. Four states are set to end them this week.

The vice president's home at the Naval Observatory seen here in 2016.

Texas Man Arrested With Guns, Ammo Outside Of Vice Presidential Residence

The San Antonio man faces several weapons charges after police recovered a rifle and ammunition from his vehicle.

A jumping spider - Evarcha arcuata - literally hangs out at nighttime - but this was a surprise, even to a jumping spider researcher.

Why Jumping Spiders Spend All Night Hanging Out — Literally

Little is known about the night-time habits of tiny creatures all around us. Take the jumping spider--it mysteriously can spend much of the night suspended in mid-air, hanging by a thread.

Live music venues such as The Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles were among the first businesses to close during the pandemic. The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant was supposed to be a lifeline for owners.

Help Was On The Way For Shuttered Venues. Then The Website Crashed

The Small Business Administration launched an application portal for its $16 billion relief program for shuttered venues yesterday, but technical problems prompted deactivation for repair.

Help Was On The Way For Shuttered Venues. Then The Website Crashed.

The Small Business Administration launched an application portal for its $16 billion relief program for shuttered venues yesterday, but technical problems prompted deactivation for repair.

President Biden signs into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.

Here's What The New Hate Crimes Law Aims To Do As Attacks On Asian Americans Rise

The legislation, which had overwhelming support in the House and Senate, aims to make reporting hate crimes easier and puts resources into monitoring and preventing those crimes.

The firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, in 2010. South Carolina recently passed a law to use a firing squad or the electric chair for executions, citing a lack of lethal injection drugs. South Carolina is just the fourth state to use firing squad, joining Utah, Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Death Row Inmates Sue After They're Asked To Pick Firing Squad Or Electric Chair

South Carolina is now asking death-row inmates to choose between the electric chair and firing squad, citing a lack of lethal injection drugs. Critics say the move is more about conservative politics.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on the department's actions to address unaccompanied immigrant children on Thursday.

Far Fewer Young Migrants Are In Border Patrol Custody, DHS Secretary Says

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told lawmakers that unaccompanied minors are moving more quickly out of custody and into facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services.

A laboratory building at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, is seen on May 13, 2020.

Biden Asks U.S. Intel To Push For Stronger Conclusions On The Coronavirus' Origins

The U.S. intelligence community is investigating the potential origins of the coronavirus, including the possibility that it emerged as a result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China.

A screenshot of the Alameda Police Department body camera footage shows officers detaining Mario Gonzalez, 26, on April 19, 2021. Gonzalez died soon after.

Man Dies After Alameda, Calif., Police Pin Him To Ground For Several Minutes

The city released body camera footage showing the police encounter with Mario Gonzalez. He died after being pinned to the ground.

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