Senators torpedoed quick passage of a new coronavirus aid package Thursday, with Democrats rejecting a Trump administration request for $250 billion to boost a small business payroll fund to help keep paychecks going for out-of-work employees. The standoff doesn’t end the pursuit of more rescue funds. Democrats and Republicans agree… Read More
U.K. Parliament reveals Boris Johnson’s health update
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in intensive care with the coronavirus but is improving and sitting up in bed, a senior government minister said Wednesday, as the U.K. recorded its biggest spike in COVID-19 deaths to date. Johnson, the first world leader diagnosed with the disease, has spent two… Read More
Joe Biden’s VP — Obama jumps in
Former President Barack Obama is weighing in on the 2020 general election — and he’s reportedly been giving his former Vice President, Joe Biden, advice on how to choose a running mate. Biden will represent the Democratic Party against President Donald Trump this fall, the former vice president’s place on… Read More
Widow of longtime U.S. senator passes away at 71
Irene Hirano Inouye, the widow of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii and the founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, has died. She was 71. Hirano Inouye had most recently served as president of the U.S.-Japan Council, which aims to develop and… Read More
Trump quietly ends asylum in public health move
A U.S. Border Patrol agent wouldn’t let Jackeline Reyes explain why she and her 15-year-old daughter needed asylum, pointing to the coronavirus. That confrontation in Texas came just days after the Trump administration quietly shut down the nation’s asylum system for the first time in decades in the name of… Read More
Major Clinton whistleblower on her death bed, reports say
Linda Tripp, the famous whistleblower in the sex scandal involving Monica Lewinsky, whose secret recordings led to former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, is dying in the hospital. According to The New York Post, Tripp’s daughter posted on social media that her mother doesn’t have long to live. She’s asking for… Read More
Navy boss resigns after explosive remarks on colleague
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday, bringing to a climax an extraordinary drama that he advanced by delivering a profanity-laced upbraiding of the officer he fired as captain of the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt. Sponsored: Russia’s dark secret In announcing the resignation, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Modly quit… Read More
Andrew Cuomo endorses Trump-backed Wuhan virus drug
It seems that Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the latest liberal leader coming around to the idea that the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine — famously backed by President Donald Trump — may actually work for people sick with COVID-19. Cuomo is suggesting that there’s evidence of the drug’s success… Read More
Trump fires key inspector general, draws Democrats’ ire
President Donald Trump is moving aggressively to challenge the authority and independence of agency watchdogs overseeing his administration, including removing the inspector general tasked with overseeing the $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package that passed Congress with bipartisan support. Sponsored: The 2 Easiest Food Tricks To Lose Weight In four days,… Read More
Bernie Sanders ends presidential campaign
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party’s establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, an acknowledgment that the former vice president is too far ahead for him to have any reasonable hope… Read More
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