The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell last week, after unexpectedly spiking just one week before. According to the U.S. Labor Department, 411,000 Americans filed new jobless claims the week ending June 19, a decline of about 7,000. Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate, joins CBSN to discuss the latest numbers.
After a drop in 2020, the percentage of people planning to travel this summer is approaching 2019 levels.
President Biden on Thursday touted a bipartisan Senate deal on infrastructure and urged Congress to move forward with the bill "swiftly and in tandem" with a reconciliation bill that will include his priorities on "human" infrastructure, such as child care and health care. Watch his remarks.
The CDC has extended its moratorium on evictions through the end of July to help families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic remain in their homes. CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano has more.
The new roll-out solar arrays are part of an upgrade to counteract age-related degradation in the lab's original panels.
500 people have been arrested so far in what the government calls "the most complex investigation ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice."
Dozens of people are accounted for after a large portion of a 12-story condo building collapsed in Surfside, Florida, overnight. Architect Kobi Karp joins CBSN to discuss the investigation into what may have caused the building to give way.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this would be its "final extension."
CBSN Originals' new documentary explores the growing economic inequality in Puerto Rico and the divide over whether statehood is the solution.
A doctor who managed to reach the area after Ethiopian soldiers blocked medical teams from responding said that it was a "horrible" scene.
Actor and activist Danny Glover will also receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy's Governors Awards ceremony in January 2022.
"Hundreds of First Nations children went to Marieval Indian Residential School and did not leave," Chief Bobby Cameron said in a statement Thursday.
The ban on silica-based products comes after a U.S. investigation concluding a Chinese company is using forced labor to make its products.
