The COVID-19 relief bill that passed the Senate on Saturday morning contains a key provision that would come as a big relief to millions of Americans who received unemployment benefits last year: no surprise tax bills.

The Senate has passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan, with $1,400 direct payments to many Americans, a $300 weekly unemployment benefit until September and hundreds of billions of dollars for state and local governments, reopening schools and a national vaccination program.

Democrats have conceded to Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.V) demands on enhanced unemployment insurance, agreeing to smaller benefits for unemployed Americans after a nine-hour stalemate on the Senate floor.Manchin, a key swing vote, abruptly halted the passage of the $1.9 trillion proposal Friday, throwing Democrats into chaos by threatening to vote for a Republican amendment on the bill that would ...

Piers Morgan lashed out at Meghan Markle on social media a few days before her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey is slated to air.He responded to the latest promo for her CBS special in which the Duchess of Sussex claimed the British royal family prevented her from speaking up and speaking out while she was still a working member.

When Americans think of "The Firm," we usually drift to injury attorneys or may even recall the 1993 thriller starring Tom Cruise. However, across the pond "The Firm" has an entirely different meaning. You see, while some non-British royal watchers romanticize the royal family as knights in shining armor, their legacy is one of big business, "though one with more ups and downs than the stock ...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama had both praise and a warning for Senate Republicans on Wednesday night (March 4.) The House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act, without the support of a single Republican. Ms. Obama, 57, who had become a national voting rights activist since founding her When We All Vote organization in 2018, praised the Democrats for championing the reforms ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Wife alum Dallas Roberts, Clea Lewis (The Americans) and Nicole Chanel Williams (Boomerang) are set for recurring roles in Showtime drama series American Rust, starring Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. The series is scheduled to begin production in Pittsburgh in late March.

Will Smith can currently be seen as the host of Netflix's Amend: The Fight for America, which tackles the history of the 14th Amendment, especially as it relates to Black Americans. The miniseries is packed with powerful stories about fighting against hate and Smith has come to a simple conclusion when it comes to racists -- they aren’t smart people.

President Joe Biden announced on March 2, 2021 that he believes there will be enough coronavirus vaccines available "for every adult in America by the end of May," per NPR. The announcement came just days after Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine became the third approved in the U.S.A. Despite the progress in fighting COVID-19, it still remains a major threat to Americans, as the death toll ...

As I was taking my dog on her afternoon walk on Dec. 31, 2020, we passed the American Girl store, a familiar route I walk to relive the nostalgia of my youth. Similarly, I have a dear friend who anticipates her family's yearly trips to New York, where she can visit the American Girl Place to revisit that same, goosebump-inducing memory lane.

After putting stricter limits on who will receive another stimulus check last month, Democrats are once again changing their proposal to give most Americans suffering amid the coronavirus pandemic $1,400.

It’s been nearly a year since international autism expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D., weighed in on how children with autism and their families were faring during the social isolation at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak. For many Americans, not much has changed over the course of the last 11 months. Instead of our typical school routines, family outings and celebrations, children and teens ...

Jimmy Fallon and John Legend teamed up on Monday’s “Tonight Show” to mark the start of March, aka the unofficial anniversary of when Americans’ quarantines began. And they did it with a parody of the “Beauty and the Beast” (a classic Disney movie about being in lockdown) song “Belle,” aptly titled, “March Again.”

A different kind of plague has emerged with renewed force in the last year alongside COVID-19: the rise of hate crimes against Asians and Asian-Americans in the U.S. The spike in anti-Asian violence began around a year ago when the coronavirus pandemic first reached American shores, and was exacerbated by former President Donald Trump and other federal officials repeatedly calling COVID-19 the ...

“Your favorite Disney Princess is Mulan, right?” is a question I’ve heard, and somewhat resented, many times over the years. Of course she would have to be my favorite; for decades Mulan was the only Asian face in Disney’s overwhelmingly white line-up of fairy-tale mascots, and Asian-Americans were starved for onscreen representation as it is (for the record, my favorite is Belle). I would admit ...

ReporterWith many Americans confused about who is eligible for Covid-19 vaccines — and millions more who are eligible for the shots unable to book an appointment — Saturday Night Live’s cold open turned the nation’s vaccine rollout into a game show hosted by Kate McKinnon’s Dr. Fauci.

Bill Maher and Megyn Kelly’s chat on Friday night’s “Real Time,” about why she took her kids out of private school, quickly devolved into what some on social media are calling a culture war against white Americans.

Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican from Arizona, spoke Friday night at a far-right extremist rally organized by white nationalist figurehead Nick Fuentes while his colleagues in the House passed a massive coronavirus relief package.

Megyn Kelly has come under fire after a new interview with comedian Bill Maher. The former Fox News anchor revealed she pulled her three kids out of their prestigious Manhattan private school because the teaching took a “hard left” turn. She and her husband, novelist Doug Brunt, share kids Edward, 11, Yardley, 9, and, Thatcher, 7, who attended pricey schools on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and ...

In 2019, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) pressed a Trump administration Interior Department official about his history of ridiculing Native Americans over their religious beliefs regarding sacred lands. After downplaying his 2009 statement as one made “as a private attorney representing private clients,” William Perry Pendley, then-acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, said he was excited ...