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While major banks in the U.S. started delivering $1,400 stimulus checks in March, the federal relief payments are still arriving at millions of households struggling to make ends meet amid the coronavirus-hobbled economy.
The Internal Revenue Service has delivered more than 156 million payments valued at $372 billion, the agency said Wednesday. The latest round includes 25 million payments, with many of those directed toward millions of Social Security recipients, who have reached out to CBS MoneyWatch with concerns about delays. The holdups prompted the House Ways and Means Committee to send letters to the IRS and Social Security Administration asking about the payment delays to Social Security, Veterans Affairs and Railroad Retirement Board benefit recipients. Their prodding of the federal bureaucracies appears to have paid off.Pennsylvania was a pivotal state in the 2020 presidential election, sealing Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump after four days of vote counting. So it's no surprise the Keystone State is again front and center this election cycle, with both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump investing time and resources there ahead of Election Day.
Reporter killed in restaurant she owns hours after journalist shot dead in separate attack in Mexico
The U.N. human rights office in Mexico said Wednesday journalists in Mexico need more protection, after gunmen killed a journalist whose Facebook news page covered the violent western Mexico state of Michoacan. Then less than 24 hours later an entertainment reporter in the western city of Colima was killed inside a restaurant she owned.