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EXPLAINER: How alleged plot exploited pandemic to net $250M

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Department of Justice has charged 47 people in Minnesota in what prosecutors have called a $250 million scheme to defraud a federal meals program. Prosecutors said just a fraction of the money went toward feeding kids, with the rest laundered through shell companies ...

Feds: 48 exploited pandemic to steal $250M from food program

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal authorities charged 48 people in Minnesota with conspiracy and other counts in what they said Tuesday was the largest pandemic-related fraud scheme yet, stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children. Prosecutors say the ...

NYC ending vaccine mandate for private employers on Nov. 1

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will lift its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private-sector employers on Nov. 1, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday in another sign of the city's gradual return to pre-pandemic norms. The city began requiring almost all private businesses to ban unvaccinated employees ...

Pandemic homeless hotels close, sending some back to streets

DENVER (AP) — As Charlie Gilmore collected his belongings Friday to leave the Denver hotel that had been a home to him and 137 other previously homeless people during the pandemic, he pondered where he would spend the night. The 58-year-old is one of thousands of people without homes across ...

WEEKLY REPORT: Ten new COVID-19 deaths, 17 hospitalized in NH

On Thursday, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced 1,446 new positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, Sept. 8 and Wednesday, Sept. 14. For the previous week, DHHS announced 10 additional deaths related to COVID-19. There are currently 17 hospitalized ...

Unwed couples grew, US was more wired in COVID’s 1st years

During the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home in the United States tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spent more than a third of their income on rent went up, according to survey results released Thursday by the U.S. Census ...