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Stimulus Check 2: Will You Get An Extra 1 200 Payment From The IRS Here s The Latest

2020-06-28T10:36:06Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> The first stimulus checks, for up to $1,200, have mostly gone out. Now the government is considering a second payment to get us through the coronavirus pandemic. Angela Lang/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the [ WHO website]. While others in Washington continue to debate the pros and cons of [/news/second-stimulus-check-could-be-very-generous-todays-update-on-another-irs-payment/ a second stimulus check] for 2020, President Donald Trump seems sold on the idea of additional help for Americans. [ The Washington Post] reported Tuesday that the president is "largely supportive" of another round of [ coronavirus] [/news/stimulus-check-amount-status-eligibility-payment-timeline-everything-to-know/ stimulus payments] to help raise up the [/news/the-coronavirus-recession-is-real-what-that-means-for-2020-and-how-to-prepare/ US economy]. The president is telling other reporters something similar. "We will be doing another stimulus package. It will be very good. It will be very generous," [ Trump said in an interview] with Washington correspondent Joe St. George on June 22. CNET Coronavirus Update Keep track of the coronavirus pandemic. The problem is that the Senate, House and White House advisers can't seem to agree on the details, and deliberation isn't yet underway. Even if Round 2 does arrive, different people might qualify for an extra payment. Here's what we know about three competing government proposals and how much money they could provide. This story updates frequently and is intended as an overview of the current situation. If you're still waiting for your first stimulus check, [/news/wheres-your-stimulus-check-10-reasons-for-a-delay-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ here are 10 possible reasons for a delay] and [/news/is-your-stimulus-check-a-no-show-when-and-how-to-report-your-missing-payment-to-the-irs/ what you can do if you think your payment is lost or has fallen through the cracks]. Coronavirus updates [/personal-finance/second-stimulus-check-update-dramatic-and-very-generous-but-when-will-it-come/ Second stimulus check could be 'very generous'] [/news/three-months-into-the-pandemic-price-gouging-is-still-a-real-problem/ Three months into the pandemic, price gouging is still a problem] [/news/movie-theaters-will-look-vastly-different-if-they-survive-covid-19/ Movie theaters will look vastly different if they survive COVID-19] [ ] Want more stimulus check money? Who wouldn't? James Martin/CNET How much money could I get from a second stimulus check? Here are the numbers that have been tossed around: An extra check of up to $1,200. Proposed by: The [ Heroes Act] passed by the House of Representatives in May. (This is not law. More below.)A [ $2,000 monthly payment] through the end of the [ coronavirus pandemic]. Proposed by: Sen. Kamala Harris. $2,000 a month [ until the pandemic ends]. Proposed by: US Representative Ro Khanna. [ $4,000 temporary travel tax credit] (PDF). Proposed by: US Travel Association, after Trump [ put forward the idea in May].$0 -- tax breaks for businesses instead, as a way to get people back to work. Remember that how much you get will eventually depend on who you are. For example, even if the bill passes, there will certainly be eligibility restrictions based on criteria like how much money you make annually, your age and your US citizenship or residency status, to name a few qualifications applied to the first stimulus check. How could a second stimulus check help the economy? The goal of the second stimulus check would be the same as the first: to help individuals and businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak. That includes people who couldn't work because they got sick, were furloughed or cut to part time or lost their jobs when businesses closed to slow the spread of COVID-19. "This direct support can make a critical difference not just in helping families and businesses in a time of need, but also in limiting long-lasting damage to our economy," Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said [ in remarks before the Senate Banking Committee] earlier in June. Now playing: Watch this: Stimulus Checks Helpline 2:58 [ First-time unemployment claims topped 1 million] (PDF) for the 13th straight week, the Department of Labor revealed on June 18 and the [/news/coronavirus-recession-2020-is-official-what-that-means-and-how-to-prepare/ US is now in a recession], according to another US agency. Earlier in June, [https://footballandcricketonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/zaheer-khan-in-world-cup.html https://footballandcricketonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/zaheer-khan-in-world-cup.html] the department reported that the national unemployment rate [ slightly dropped in May] as more people went back to work, declining from 14.7% in April to [ 13.3% in May], as states allowed businesses to reopen and hire or rehire employees. According to the World Bank, we are in [ the deepest global recession in decades]. Americans continue to show concern about the state of the economy since the start of the pandemic, according to a June 5 [ poll by the Financial Times], with more than a third now saying a global slowdown is the biggest threat to the US economy. Under the backdrop of [ high unemployment] and a [ potentially lengthy recession] ahead, some wonder if the first check did enough for individuals, families, businesses and [/news/coronavirus-unemployment-furlough-payments-applying-more/ those who are out of work]. The question of future stimulus checks rests in part on [ how best to distribute additional aid]. What are Republican leaders offering? Senate Republicans, led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, have sketched out the guidelines they want to follow for a second round, including a cap on the size of the bill and a stipulation it will be the final stimulus package related to the coronavirus pandemic. And if the Senate decides to start work on a second stimulus package, it will be in July, [ McConnell said] on June 19: "If there is something going to happen, it will emerge in the Senate, it will be written beginning in my office, it will be done in July." McConnell said a second bill would be narrowly focused and not exceed $1 trillion, [ Axios reported] in late May. In comparison, the [ CARES Act] is a $2 trillion package, the same amount the president targeted. The Heroes Act proposes to spend $3 trillion. The Senate package could include provisions to reduce liability for doctors and businesses from coronavirus-related lawsuits, [ The Wall Street Journal reported] in May.It could include assistance for small businesses and health care.If the package is approved, McConnell said it would be the last coronavirus stimulus package Congress passes.

Muslim Fury Grows After Protest Deaths In Indian Neighbourhood

2020-06-28T03:34:34Z

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By Zeba Siddiqui MEERUT, India, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Zaheer Ahmed had just returned home from work in northern India last Friday afternoon and stepped out for a smoke before lunch. Minutes later, he was dead, shot in the head. His death, and the killing by gunfire of four other Muslim men the same afternoon in the mainly Muslim neighbourhood, made it the most intense burst of violence in two weeks of protests. India has been convulsed by the broadest unrest in at least seven years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government brought in a law that many see as discriminatory against Muslims, who make up 14 percent of the population. All of the families of the five dead men say they were shot and killed by police as a protest flared against the new law. Reuters could not independently verify those accounts, and none of the more than 20 individuals Reuters interviewed saw police open fire. Police say they used baton charges and teargas, and opened fire to control the crowd but did not kill anyone. Police add that the men must have been killed by violent armed protesters whose shots went astray. An investigation into the violence is under way. In the aftermath, distrust and anger between the Muslim community in the area where the deaths happened and security forces has deepened, as protests to the law enter their third week. The clashes on Dec. 20 erupted around Lisari Gate after Friday afternoon's Muslim prayers. Residents say police broke several CCTV cameras in the area before the violence began. Reuters was unable to independently verify those accounts, but did review CCTV footage from two cameras on shops in the area. In both cases, the footage ends abruptly after a policeman waving a baton is seen trying to hit the cameras. Akhilesh Singh, the police superintendent of the Meerut City zone, said police had not destroyed any cameras and that all of the victims were involved in what he called rioting. "Obviously they must be in the midst of the violence. That's why they must have been killed," Singh told Reuters. Police have cracked down on the demonstrations that have spread across India, but Uttar Pradesh state, where Meerut is located, has seen the worst violence. At least 19 of 25 deaths have taken place there. Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state with roughly 200 million people, is ruled by a Hindu priest and has a history of deadly Hindu-Muslim clashes. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in a televised statement last week that he would take "revenge" against those behind the violence and make them pay for the public damage. HOW ZAHEER DIED Zaheer Ahmed's home lies in a jumble of lanes that make up the crowded Lisari Gate area. The 45-year-old, who sold cattle fodder for a living, had coloured his hair that day for a family wedding, said his 22-year-old niece Shaheen. When Zaheer returned from work, he told Shaheen that he wanted to smoke and stepped out to go to a small stall in the next lane that sold beedis, the small Indian cigarette. Zaheer's friend Naseem Ahmed was standing in the lane across the beedi stall at the time, Naseem said. He described seeing Zaheer buy the beedi and sit down on a ledge next to the shop. Around that time, there was chaos on the main road beyond the lanes, Shaheen and several other residents said. They said they could hear the sound of people screaming and saw teargas clouds. Many men ran into the lanes, some followed by police. "I suddenly saw Zaheer fall down," said Naseem, adding that he had seen some policemen rushing into the lane just before. "I thought he fell unconscious. It all happened within minutes." Through the clouds of teargas, Shaheen said she heard someone scream that Zaheer had been shot. Neighbours brought his body home. "I don't know who engaged in the violence, but my husband didn't," said his wife Shahajahan. "Why did they kill my innocent husband? How can they kill innocent people?" The families of the other four men who died that day said the men were either out for work or prayers when they were hit by gunfire. None of them have received post-mortem reports. According to their families, Mohammed Mohsin was buying fodder for cattle. Asif, a tyre mechanic, had stepped out to fix tyres at someone's home. Another man called Asif, a rickshaw-driver, was returning home after prayers. Aleem Ansari had gone to the restaurant where he worked making rotis, the Indian bread. Many people in the impoverished area use just one name. "DEADLY FORCE" Thousands of people have taken to streets across India to demand the government rescind the Citizenship Amendment Act enacted by parliament on Dec. 11. It gives minorities who migrated from three neighbouring countries a path to citizenship, except for Muslims. Critics say it is an attack on India's secular foundations. "He was shot dead by police. They shot him in the head and killed him," said Ansari's mother Saira. "I swear if I find that policeman I will not spare him." Reuters reviewed a copy of a case report of the violence that day that police registered at the Lisari Gate police station. The report dated Dec. 20 includes a police officer´s statement that a crowd of about 1,000 protesters armed with sticks charged down the main road at around 2:30 p.m. Police asked them to disperse, saying the large gathering was not permitted, according to the police report. The officer who filed it, Ajay Kumar Sharma, did not immediately respond to calls for comment. "Suddenly there was chaos when the crowd started pelting stones at us and firing at us," the report says. In response, police used batons and fired tear gas and rubber bullets, the statement says. Singh, the Meerut police superintendent, said the police and paramilitary personnel around Lisari Gate that day were armed with AK-47 rifles, pistols and chilli bombs. At a hospital in Meerut, two paramilitary policemen being treated said they were injured when fired at by protesters last Friday. A doctor said they had been treated for bullet injuries on the leg and forearm. When asked about civilians who had been shot and [https://footballandcricketonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/zaheer-khan-in-world-cup.html footballandcricketonline.blogspot.com] killed, one of them, Vidya Dhar Shukla, sat up on his bed. "There was so much chaos, who knows where the damned people died?" "If I had a gun I would fire at them that day," he said. "India shouldn't harbour such snakes." (Reporting by Zeba Siddiqui; Aditional reporting by Adnan Abidi and Saurabh Sharma; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Mike Collett-White)

NASA Astronaut Captures Striking ISS View Of Solar Eclipse Shadow Falling On Earth

2020-06-28T02:21:11Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> [ Enlarge Image] The big shadow is from the moon during the annular solar eclipse on Sunday. NASA/Chris Cassidy A few lucky locations in the world on Sunday witnessed an [/news/rare-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-hypnotizing-pictures-from-across-the-globe/ annular "ring of fire" solar eclipse] that hid most of the sun. The astronauts on the International Space Station were treated to a very different view of the event. [/tags/nasa/ NASA] astronaut [ Chris Cassidy shared a collection of wild photos] on Sunday showing the moon's shadow darkening Earth below. Super cool view of the Annular Solar Eclipse which passed by our starboard side as we flew over China this morning. A pretty neat way to wake up on Father's Day morning! Hoping all of the dads in the world have a wonderful day! [ #Eclipse] [ #FathersDay] [ #HappyFathersDay2020] [ pic.twitter.com/vJx5yOFAcb] — Chris Cassidy (@Astro_SEAL) [ June 21, 2020] window.CnetFunctions.logWithLabel('%c One Trust ', "Service loaded: script_twitterwidget with class optanon-category-5"); "Super cool view of the Annular Solar Eclipse, which passed by our starboard side as we flew over China this morning," Cassidy wrote. He used the occasion to also wish all the dads in the world a happy Father's Day. CNET Science From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week. Eclipse viewers [/news/rare-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-hypnotizing-pictures-from-across-the-globe/ on Earth saw either a partial or full annular eclipse]. Since the moon was too far away from Earth to completely hide the sun, it created a "ring of fire" effect. From the ISS viewpoint, the eclipse appeared as a large shadow cast by the moon. We have one more solar eclipse to look forward to this year on Dec. 14 for parts of South America. For [https://footballandcricketonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/zaheer-khan-in-world-cup.html https://footballandcricketonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/zaheer-khan-in-world-cup.html] more on catching solar and lunar eclipses, [/news/how-to-watch-a-solar-or-lunar-eclipse-everything-you-need-to-know/ check out our CNET guide].

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2020-06-28T02:21:09Z

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