Unemployment: Benefits End For Millions, Future Stimulus Funding Uncertain

Corey Taylor has spoken about his plans for 2021, including a solo tour, shows with Slipknot, a movie and more.The Slipknot frontman released his debut solo album ‘CMFT’ in October last year but has not been able to tour it so far due to the coronavirus pandemic.Speaking to Kerrang!, Taylor said he was “looking at almost a two-to-three-week tour in the spring with CMFT” in the US, before heading back out on the road with his other band.

To Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, directors of the Netflix documentary Athlete A, the women who came forward to call out rampant sexual abuse within the USA Gymnastics program are “American heroes.”

According to reports via Daily Mail, Amber Heard hasn't yet donated her divorce settlement funds from Johnny Depp to charity as promised. If you didn't know, in 2016, the actress promised that she would donate her divorce settlement money (USD 3.5 million) to both Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The American Federation of Musicians and Employers’ Pension Fund again has applied to the U.S. Treasury Department for permission to reduce benefits for nearly half of its 51,521 participants. The Plan is currently in “critical and declining” status, and is projected to run out of money to pay benefits within 20 years.

Late last year, Pink Siifu launched a $20,000 GoFundMe called "Help Save My Family Home From Foreclosure." That amount was successfully raised, but yesterday the rapper announced that he needed to boost the amount to $25,000. In the fundraiser's description, Siifu explained how unexpected expenses had emerged.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said top Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer of "trying to pull a fast one," warning in a floor speech Wednesday that there was "no realistic path" to quickly approve larger stimulus checks for Americans contending with the coronavirus pandemic.

President Trump’s last-minute about-face on the size of stimulus checks for most Americans to help deal with the economic harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic has turned Washington upside down only days before a new Congress is sworn in.  Trump’s negotiators had agreed to $600 per person in stimulus checks and had gotten that measure through both the Democratic-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate before Christmas.The bill the payments were wrapped into was a typically flawed

Steven Mnuchin says that relief is on the way.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate will address President Trump's request to increase stimulus checks sent to Americans to $2,000 but did not commit to pushing the issue -- as Sen. Bernie Sanders and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer each urged the body to put the House bill on $2,000 stimulus checks up for a quick vote.

Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday voiced support for $2,000 stimulus checks, diverging from some of his Republican Senate colleagues.

The House of Representatives on Monday will vote on a bill to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans in lieu of the $600 checks included in the coronavirus stimulus and government funding package President Trump signed Sunday night.  The vote will come after Trump for the better part of a week railed against the size of the checks and the amount of foreign aid included in the massive combination of two legislative accords that lawmakers sent to his desk.

As the coronavirus pandemic causes state officials to tighten up restrictions and lock down businesses, many are itching for additional aid from the government. But the recently approved relief package, with a proposed $600 stimulus check included, isn’t enough for middle-class Americans and small business owners who are in dire need of help, Illinois restaurant owner Jeff Buckler told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday.

Members of the progressive "Squad" in the House on Thursday introduced their own bill to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans after President Trump this week demanded the $600 checks included in Congress' stimulus deal be increased to that number.  The legislation was spearheaded by Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; and Pramila Jayapal D-Wash.

House Democrats and Republicans are set to make dueling "unanimous consent" requests on Thursday based on grievances President Trump aired Tuesday night to the massive coronavirus stimulus and government funding package lawmakers sent to his desk — exchanging political barbs as it's still unclear whether Trump will veto the original piece of legislation.  Trump on Tuesday night released a scathing video in which he called panned $600 stimulus checks for Americans as too small, saying the number

Polygon, which noted that funding for video games “sprung back to life after years of anaemic growth”. In the four years prior, funding in the category had hovered around the US$17million range, dipping in 2018 with only US$15.8million.Luke Crane, Kickstarter’s vice president of community, has attributed the growth to continued outreach to Japanese creators.

As if 2020 hasn’t delivered enough unexpected news, consider this: President Trump’s call Tuesday night for Congress to raise coronavirus stimulus payments to Americans to $2,000 won raves from at least three of his harshest critics. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S.

Unless you’ve been avoiding social media like the plague that it is over the past few days (and bravo, if you have!), then you probably already know that Congress has approved a new stimulus package that aims to help businesses and citizens of the US survive the still-ongoing pandemic. But what you might not realize is that buried deep in that bill are two things of note: money for theaters and a new law that says illegal streaming is a felony.

Passed by Congress on Monday night (December 21), the US$900billion stimulus package will revive unemployment benefits and launch a round of $600 stimulus payments to many Americans, among other provisions.The 5,000-page bill also includes a proposal by Republican senator Thom Tillis, introduced less than two weeks ago, that aims to increase the penalty for operating a for-profit illegal streaming service, writes the Hollywood Reporter.The bill proposes criminal penalties for operators of