NewsWatch: Apple’s launch event has one big unknown

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There’s debate about whether Apple will actually reveal new iPhones on Sept. 15 or hold off until a future event. See full story.

My parents have $50,000 in credit-card debt and $50,000 in a home-equity loan. My father works part-time and my mother refuses to work. How can we help?

‘My mother seems to think they will be able to retire in three years when they get additional Social Security, but they have zero retirement funds.’ See full story.

Fauci tells Americans to ‘hunker down’ this fall and winter: ‘It’s not going to be easy’

Coronavirus cases remain ‘unacceptably high’ as schools and restaurants reopen, and flu season approaches See full story.

The numbers tell us the economy is better, but millions of Americans aren’t feeling it

The U.S. economy has kept growing despite a summer spike in coronavirus cases and the end of massive federal aid, but millions of Americans are either being left out or are in danger of being left behind. See full story.

A record number of Americans are renouncing their citizenship — here’s why

Most already live abroad. See full story.

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Two papers presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress examined patients who were suffering health aftereffects of coronavirus. See full story.