WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans on Thursday began moving on a temporary extension of expanded unemployment insurance - confronting significant pressure to keep that financial lifeline while negotiations on a broader coronavirus relief bill continued to flounder. 

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., released a massive economic stimulus bill Thursday to fight the coronavirus's fallout, even as opposition emerged from some key Republicans to one of the central elements of the plan - direct cash payments to many Americans.