With a month left until the August 15 deadline, more than two million people have signed up for healthcare coverage through the Affordable Care Act(ACA) during the Biden Administration’s 2021 Special Enrollment Period, according to new enrollment reports from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The special enrollment period began …

A Judge in Maryland ruled this week that enhanced federal unemployment benefits can continue until September. A judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the state to ensure those qualifying for unemployment to keep getting enhanced federal benefits. Maryland’s Republican Governor Larry Hogan and labor official wanted to opt-out of the …

Norwegian Cruise Line is reportedly suing Florida for banning Covid certificates, or “vaccine passports”, in what it has called “an impossible dilemma” if cruises are to return. The company, in a complaint filed in the US district court of Miami, is asking for Florida’s ban on Covid certifications to be invalidated …

A federal judge has issued a decision Friday that blocks new DACA applications, after Texas and several other states filed a lawsuit against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen sided with the states in his ruling, agreeing that then-President Barack Obama had overstepped his …

The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell to 360,000 last week, the lowest level since the coronavirus pandemic began, the Labor Department reported on Thursday. The reading was a decrease of 26,000 from the prior week’s revised level and the lowest level since March 14, 2020, …

Senate Democrats announced Tuesday night that they have reached an agreement on a $3.5 trillion budget plan, including plans to address climate change and the expansion of Medicare, that they plan to push alongside a bipartisan infrastructure deal. Here is @SenSchumer making the announcement. He points out that with this …

First Lady Jill Biden will attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which will be held on July 23, according to the first lady’s office. The Summer Olympics were supposed to kick off in Japan’s capital last year on July 24 but were postponed due to …

The US Senate on Monday unanimously confirmed Jen Easterly as the new director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security. The agency, established in 2018, is responsible for the security, resiliency and reliability of the nation’s cybersecurity and communications infrastructure. CISA has not …

The U.S. Postal Service said this week it has restored its on-time mail delivery rates to its highest level in a year, finally matching its performance level from before Postmaster General Louis DeJoy took office. USPS delivered nearly 88% of First-Class mail on time from April 1 to June 30, …

President Joe Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul — who was appointed by former President Donald Trump — after he refused to resign, White House sources announced Friday. Unnamed White House sources told NBC News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times that Biden had previously asked Saul to …

Charlottesville’s statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson were removed within a span of eight hours Saturday — capping a years-long effort by many to rid the city of the monuments. The statue’s removal came more than five years after racial justice activists had renewed a …

G20 finance ministers on Saturday gave their backing to a historic deal to overhaul the way multinational companies are taxed and urged hold-out countries to get on board. Some 132 countries have already signed up to a framework for international tax reform, including a minimum corporate rate of 15 percent, …

Exceptional heat waves from coast to coast helped push June 2021 to the No. 1 spot on the list of hottest Junes on record for the U.S. The first six months of 2021 also brought eight billion-dollar weather disasters, ranging from destructive severe weather to a historic deep freeze, according to experts …

President Biden signed an executive order Friday that’s intended to promote fairer business competition in the United States — and includes more than 70 different initiatives across several economic sectors, including technology and healthcare. The White House said Biden’s order aims to address agriculture, banking and the Internet and will …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told his Democratic caucus in a letter Friday that the chamber may work through August to pass two infrastructure plans — a bipartisan bill and another piece of legislation that only has the support of his party. Schumer said senators are working with the White …