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NBA star Kyrie Irving bought a house for George Floyd’s family
The basketball star Kyrie Irving has bought George Floyd’s family a house.
Disney closes Hall of Presidents attraction to add Joe Biden animatronic — some say it’s time to end it
Some are calling for the attraction to be removed, citing today’s political divisions.
I’m predisposed to early-onset Alzheimer’s. I want to propose to my girlfriend — but unsure how to divide my estate between her and my daughter
This letter writer asks: ‘Is it wrong to leave funds passed down from generation to generation solely for my daughter, and leave other funds to my new wife?’
My wife has a degenerative neurological disease. My father-in-law wants to put her in a facility — and take over our finances
‘My father-in-law now seems obsessed with moving my wife out of our home to some sort of group home/facility. The mere thought of this seems abhorrent and barbaric.’
Black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at higher rates than others — but they are also getting vaccinated at lower rates
A new analysis reveals the racial disparity in health-care worker vaccinations.
3 ways President Biden’s proposed stimulus checks will be different from Trump’s payments
‘The $600 already appropriated is simply not enough,’ President-Elect Joe Biden said Thursday.
IRS says this tax season will be ‘one of the nation’s most important.’ Make note of these key dates
The IRS will start accepting returns a little later than usual, on Feb. 12.
Here’s the maximum amount Biden’s stimulus checks and tax credits would deliver to America’s poorest families
‘Right now, the smartest thing we can do is go big,’ Janet Yellen said Tuesday.
My husband is a felon and his work plummeted. He did not file a 2019 tax return. Will we get $1,400 stimulus checks under President Biden?
‘We are hurting and need this money.’
‘This is sheer economic waste’: Our $1,200 stimulus ‘gift cards’ should have gone to poor Americans. Why did we get them?
‘We do not light our fireplace with $100 bills, but we are comfortable.’
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Lidl offers $200 extra pay to U.S. employees who get COVID-19 vaccine, joining Aldi and others
German supermarket chain Lidl will give U.S. employees $200 in extra pay if they get a COVID-19 vaccine, the company said on Wednesday, becoming the latest employer to offer such incentives.
The economy — and the stock market — tends to do better under Democrats
Here’s what the data shows going back to Eisenhower.
8 memorable moments from Joe Biden’s inauguration
President Biden was sworn in alongside star performances from Lady Gaga, J-Lo and poet Amanda Gorman
What the Trump Scoreboard says about the economy of the past four years
MarketWatch’s Trump Scoreboard kept track of the economy during the 45th president’s four-year term.
