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Congress Reaches Deal on $900 Billion Relief Package; U.K. Isolated over Mutant Virus: World Brief
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2:15Now PlayingThe House and Senate are set to vote Monday on a roughly $900 billion pandemic relief bill that would be the second-biggest economic rescue measure in the nation’s history.
The aid package will be attached to a $1.4 trillion measure to fund government operations through the end of the fiscal year, and congressional leaders said they expect the legislation to easily pass both chambers. The White House said President Donald Trump would sign it. The plan would provide direct payments of $600 to most Americans and $300 per week in enhanced unemployment benefits through March, according to lawmakers and aides. Expiring programs for gig workers and the longterm unemployed also would continue. MORE
The U.K. plunged into Christmas chaos with police blocking people from boarding packed trains, holidays abroad scrapped and travel with Europe banned after London went into an emergency lockdown. France on Sunday suspended inbound travel from the U.K. for 48 hours and Germany halted arriving flights from Britain, which is in the middle of delicate Brexit negotiations with its European Union partners. Those talks are still at a critical stage after the weekend. MORE
Protests in Sudan's capital and across the country on Saturday demanded a faster pace to democratic reforms, in demonstrations that marked the twoyear anniversary of the uprising that led to the military’s ouster of strongman Omar alBashir. The protests come amid rising tensions between military and civilian members of Sudan's transitional government, which was set up after alBashir's arrest in April 2019 and has promised sweeping reforms. MORE
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