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If we hadn't made this deal today, 12 million Americans were going to lose unemployment benefits.

The deal would extend soon-to-lapse unemployment programs for 11 weeks and keep a CDC eviction moratorium in place through January 31.

"How are the millions of people facing evictions, remaining unemployed, standing in food bank and soup kitchen lines supposed to live off of $600? »

A prominent Russian scientist who was working on a COVID-19 vaccine was found dead with a stab wound after plummeting out his window in St. Petersburg, according to news reports.

Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, 45, was in his underwear when he fell to his death from his 14th-floor apartment, according to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.

Russian police say they are investigating Kagansky’s death as a possible homicide and questioning a 45-year-old man as a potential suspect, e2news.com said. »

The $900 billion stimulus deal reached in Congress on Sunday includes roughly $15 billion in aid for struggling movie theaters, live venues and other cultural institutions — a lifeline for businesses shut down for months by COVID-19.

The so-called “Save Our Stages” provision includes $15 billion in “dedicated funding for live venues, independent movie theaters, and cultural institutions,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement.

Final votes on the spending package were expected on Monday, and then it will go to President Trump for his signature, The New York Times reported. »