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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?A bipartisan group of lawmakers was unveiling a detailed COVID-19 aid proposal Monday as Congress labored toward a final agreement on a new round of virus relief.Watch the press conference in the player above.Progress was being reported on other fronts, too, as stanley cup lawmakers cobbled together a year-end catchall funding package that will be the basis for the last significant legislation of the Trump presidency.The dozen or so lawmakers sealed agreement on their COVID relief plan over the weekend and decided to offer two bills. One is a $748 billion aid packa stanley cup ge containing money for struggling businesses, the unemployed, schools, and for vaccine distribution. The other bill proposes a $160 billion aid package for state and local governments and provisions shielding businesses from COVID-related lawsuits, a dynamic favored by Senate Republicans.The path forward for their proposals 鈥?and for COVID-19 aid more generally 鈥?remains unclear. Parallel negotiations over virus relief and government funding are proceeding on the leadership level involving House Speaker Nancy P stanley cup elosi, D-Calif., and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., remains central to any agreement. Outstanding issues include a potential second round of direct payments to individuals, a plan for $300 bonus unemployment benefits, state and local aid, and the GOP-sought liability shield against lawsuits.There a hoped-for deadline of midnight Friday to delive Hcbj Obama gets change of scenery, but problems still the same
Six predominantly black churches in various cities in the South caught fire this week, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.Three of the fires have been confirmed as cases of arson, two were likely accidental, and authorities are still investigating the cause of another.The College Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee erupted into flames early Monday morning. The Knoxville Fire Department said an arsonist deliberately set fires in multiple locations around the church, according to local news station WATE.Arson under investigation at African-American church in Knoxville @ROOK_WATE 39 story @ 11 http://t.co/NRlbbVrwf8 pic.twitter/qcxbZFxJtNmdash; WATE 6 On Your Side @6News June 22, 2015The next day, a church in Macon, Georgia that has been the target of burglaries in the past was set on fire as well.Gods Power Church of Christ caught fire on Tuesday morning. TheMacon-Bibb County Fire Department told media that their investigation has confirmed the fire was set deliberately.Chief Riggins: cause of church fire is suspicious. Live at 6 with more @13wmaznews pic.twit jordan ter/L1XZTsq4DYmdash; Claire Davis @rclairedavis June 23, 2015Macon church f stanley cup ire ruled arson via @justmcduffie : http://t.co/QzJ8RtSeu0 pic.twitter/WhZg9zwH6amdash; 13WMAZ stanley cup News @13wmaznews June 26, 2015Early Wednesday, the Briar Creek Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina was found engulfed in flames, resulting in an estimated $250,000 in damage, according to the As