[https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/01/china/beijing-covid-labor-day-holiday-intl-hnk/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/01/china/beijing-covid-labor-day-holiday-intl-hnk/index.html) "Beijing has banned all restaurant dining, shut down Universal Studios and ordered residents to provide proof of a negative Covid test to enter _...Read More_

"Nine million low income families will be £500 a year worse off on average after the planned below-inflation increase in universal credit and other means-tested benefits are introduced in April, experts say."

"Volunteers are rolling up their sleeves to receive shots of experimental vaccines tailored to beat the omicron variant — just as the winter coronavirus surge begins to relent."

>"Nobody wants to mandate business closures, but so many people are getting sick that businesses are closing anyway."

"The £1,040-a-year benefit cut is the biggest since the creation of the British welfare state."

"As Boris Johnson makes his conference speech, many families face a potentially catastrophic drop in income"

The pandemic is at its worst, globally, and expert eyes are trained on the role of new variants. Catastrophic surges are tearing across places where some thought the darkest days were already over. In India, where hospitals are running _...Read More_

>"The coronavirus is changing. So is the disease it causes."

There's always that guy in the office who spends his career criticizing, mocking and undermining everyone else's ideas, but never contributes anything himself. The GOP is that guy.

>"His pitch in the mayoral race is for New York to become the “anti-poverty” city."

[https://apple.news/AU1Rm9r2vQye4jWhRpAmz-A](https://apple.news/AU1Rm9r2vQye4jWhRpAmz-A) >"Christine Jardine, a Scottish politician who represents Edinburgh in the UK parliament, was not a fan of universal basic income before the pandemic hit." _...Read More_

The £20-a-week rise in UC has been a lifeline for many during the pandemic, but the government wants to end this in spring.