President Donald Trump has signed into law a $2.3 trillion coronavirus aid and government spending package aimed at restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a partial federal government shutdown.
President Trump will hold a rally in Georgia on the eve of the crucial Senate run-off in support of the state’s two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, he announced on Sunday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during a virtual Sojourner Truth Project event last week that ousting Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA) will give them significant power to pass legislation because they can pass bills with a simple majority in the Senate using reconciliation.
A group of bipartisan and bicameral lawmakers, dubbing themselves the “908 Coalition,” signed a public letter on Sunday, urging President Donald Trump to sign a much-needed COVID-19 emergency relief package or “veto it immediately.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would force a vote Monday on increasing payments to Americans in a coronavirus relief bill from $600 to $2,000 after President Trump urged lawmakers to do so, but Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., offered sharp opposition to the president’s decision to not automatically sign the legislation.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will have to be reelected by her colleagues if she wants to hold on to her position in the new congressional term, but two newly elected progressive Democrats refuse to say whether they will support her.
‘Light at the end of the tunnel’
Lawmakers looking for a tougher approach to China worry Biden’s Pentagon pick won’t bring it.
Walker Percy’s novel speaks to our current COVID crisis, social isolation, and a beleaguered industry.
There’s an important issue involving young women, sex, and campus, but Promising Young Woman refuses to confront it.
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Dave Portnoy Rescues Small Businesses While Congress Snoozes
New York’s Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rumored to be mulling a primary challenge to US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” House Majority Senior Whip Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said that Democrats will vote to increase direct payments to $2,000 on Monday, and believes that the vote will pass in the House.
The United Nation’s human rights office criticized President Trump this week for pardoning four Blackwater guards who had been convicted in connection with the killing of Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 — claiming that the pardons contribute “to impunity.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, on Saturday called for a ban on flights from the United Kingdom into the U.S. — amid increasing concern about a new, more infectious, strain of COVID-19 found in the U.K.
Authorities have a person or persons of interest in connection to the Christmas Day explosion that rocked the city, CBS News reported on Saturday.
‘The guards say openly that they do it deliberately on orders’
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has designated the airspace above Nashville, Tennessee, as “National Defense Airspace” following a mysterious explosion that occurred downtown on Christmas morning.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper issued a “state of civil emergency” following an explosion that occurred downtown on Christmas Day, imposing a curfew that will not be lifted until Sunday.
Despite its flaws, the franchise’s first live-action TV series continues to capture the ineffable spirit of the original trilogy.
Roger Scruton finds in the 19th-century opera Parsifal an antidote to many of modern society’s ills.
The art-and-museum circuit is struggling, changing, but dare we say evolving in some corners, in response to this terrible year’s circumstances.
Very short poems for a long winter.
For decades, Loeffler has straddled two worlds – the rural heartland of her youth and Atlanta’s corporate elite.
