Daily Global News -TUE Dec 22nd - Congress passes a $900 billion stimulus bill
b"Listen to the Daily Global #News from Grecian Echoes and WNTN 1550 AM. \\xa0Congress finally approved the long-awaited $900 billion Covid relief packageafter months of partisan gridlock. The package includes direct payments of up to $600 per adult, enhanced jobless benefits of $300 per week, roughly $284 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans. \\xa0A new, mutated form of the coronavirus that originated in England is spreading across the globe -- and it could potentially be more contagious than what we've seen. \\xa0The US Military Academy at West Point is facing its worst cheating scandal in decades. \\xa0Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and nemesis of President Vladimir Putin, almost died after being poisoned in August by the lethal nerve agent Novichok was planted in his underwear."