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At Sea World Orlando, an invited guest gets her temperature taken before attending a media preview Wednesday June10, 2020, ahead of the announced reopening to guests on Thursday. The park has been closed since March 16 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

White House weighs coronavirus tourism tax break to encourage vacations

June 17, 2020 at 3:58 p.m.

A proposal to boost tourism by providing tax breaks for Americans who travel inside the United States is being "actively" considered by the White House for inclusion in the next...

A postal worker delivers mail in Torrance wearing a mask and gloves on March 14, 2020.

Postal Service collapse could devastate seniors, small businesses and rural areas

April 22, 2020 at 3:19 p.m.

If Jack Bainbridge couldn't get his prescriptions through the mail, the 70-year-old Army veteran would have to make a 90-mile round trip to the VA Medical Center in Kansas City....

The first COVID-19 stimulus payments are being direct-deposited into Americans' accounts. Paper checks, for those whose electronic banking information is not on file, will come later.

Have you got your stimulus check yet? Some dead people have.

April 17, 2020 at 9:10 a.m.

To help combat an economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, millions of Americans are receiving stimulus checks this week — including some who are dead. Relatives of the deceased...

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2005, file photo rolls of blank social security checks run through printers and are processed at the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia. Social Security recipients shouldn't expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January. Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 percent and 2 percent, which would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower, file)

Federal stimulus checks have started to arrive. Here’s who gets what and how.

April 17, 2020 at 9:23 a.m.

The stimulus checks coming to taxpayers, starting with direct deposits this week, are expected to help people for a little while. And for all the people who get the money,...

PHILADELPHIA - FEBRUARY 11: Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility February 11, 2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As U.S. President George W. Bush travels the country to stump for his plan to change the Social Security system, opposition continues from some members of Congress and senior citizen groups concerned that the proposal would erode guarantees to the federal retirement program. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

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Los cheques del estímulo federal están en camino. Quién recibirá qué, cómo y cuándo:

April 7, 2020 at 2:10 p.m.

Se espera que el dinero del estímulo a los contribuyentes, que probablemente lleguen a partir de esta semana, los ayuden por un tiempo. Y aunque la mayoría de las personas...

Ken Griffin, the founder and CEO of Citadel, is seen Nov. 5, 2014, in Chicago. Griffin, Illinois' richest resident, has set up an trading floor in Florida to operate during the coronavirus crisis.

Billionaire Ken Griffin, Illinois’ richest resident, sets up emergency trading base at Florida hotel

April 3, 2020 at 2:35 p.m.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pointed the finger at New Yorkers for the spread of the new coronavirus in the state and required that visitors to Florida coming from New...

Lovely R. Suanino, a respiratory therapist at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J., demonstrates setting up a ventilator in the intensive care unit of the hospital in 2005. U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators.

Shortage of life-saving ventilators in coronavirus crisis has White House scrambling

March 18, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

Public health officials are preparing to ration a limited supply of ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile should hospitals be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, whose access to the machines could...

Spectators watch the Jacksonville Jaguars play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from a pool in the stands at EverBank Field.

Jaguars offer a splash of sex appeal to go with football

June 17, 2018 at 7:08 a.m.

If you were looking for a variety of Jaguar-themed bikinis, it would be hard to imagine a better place than the pools at EverBank Field during the team's last home...

Bernard Hopkins to turn Joe Frazier’s gym into community center

June 17, 2018 at 9:40 a.m.

PHILADEPHIA - Bernard Hopkins drove south on Broad Street on Tuesday morning, breezing past Joe Frazier's old boxing gym, which has been turned into a discount furniture store.The gym at...

Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is sacked by Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones during the first quarter of preseason action at Gillette Stadium.

Newton: ‘No doubt’ he’ll play Week 1 vs. Bucs

August 19, 2019 at 6:58 a.m.

Panthers quarterback Cam Newton has no doubt that he'll play in the season opener Sept. 7 at Tampa Bay.Newton, who cracked his ribs last week against New England, left little...

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