House Republicans Block $2,000 Coronavirus Stimulus Checks, Defying Trump
Trump demanded Congress increase direct payments in the COVID-19 relief bill from $600 to $2,000. Speaker Pelosi happily obliged. Republicans blocked it.
Trump demanded Congress increase direct payments in the COVID-19 relief bill from $600 to $2,000. Speaker Pelosi happily obliged. Republicans blocked it.
“The pardons from this President are what you would expect to get if you gave the pardon power to a mob boss…”
The United States has become the first nation in the world to recognize Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara. The Trump administration announced the major policy shift on December 10 — International Human Rights Day — as part of a deal that saw Morocco become the fourth Arab nation to normalize ties to Israel in recent months.
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
As President Trump continues to look for ways to overturn the 2020 election, he has also continued to raise massive sums of money — over half a billion dollars since mid-October, including more than $250 million since Election Day. The New York Times reports more than $60 million of what Trump raised has gone to a new political action committee that he will control after he leaves office, an unprecedented war chest for an outgoing president.
Trump pardoned son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father, whose crimes included hiring a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, filming it and giving it to his sister.
The president granted 26 more pardons, some of them to close allies, a day after granting clemency to 20 others.
This marks Trump’s 31st golf trip to his Palm Beach resort, which in total account for just over two-thirds of his golf-related travel and security costs.
Republican Trump voters are more likely to identify with the president than their political party, a new survey finds.
Congress has enough votes to override a veto on the National Defense Authorization Act.
California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been named by Governor Gavin Newsom to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the U.S. Senate, making history as the first Latinx senator to represent the state. Padilla was first elected to public office at 26, when he joined the Los Angeles City Council, and went on to serve two terms in the state Senate, followed by two terms as the state’s secretary of state.
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Connecticut public schools commissioner Miguel Cardona for secretary of education, tapping a third Latinx person to join his Cabinet. Cardona is a former teacher who represents a sharp break from outgoing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who urged career employees at the Education Department earlier this month to “be the resistance” to the incoming administration.
As the U.S. averages more than 200,000 new COVID-19 cases per day, we speak with Dr. Cleavon Gilman, an emergency physician who has been treating patients since the beginning of the U.S. outbreak, first in New York City and now in Yuma, Arizona. Dr. Gilman is also an Iraq War veteran who served as a Marine combat medic, and has kept a public diary of his experiences treating COVID-19 patients.
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
As President-elect Joe Biden unveils key members of his team who will tackle what he called the “existential” threat of the climate crisis, we speak to former Environmental Protection Agency official Mustafa Ali, who led the agency’s environmental justice program until resigning in 2017 in protest of the Trump administration’s policies.
Hill, who resigned last year, argues in the lawsuit that the Daily Mail and RedState don’t have the right to “sexually degrade” public officials.
In a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, the president called the current bill “a disgrace.
The veteran GOP strategist called the advice given to Trump by the lawyer and the former national security adviser “idiotic” and “unbelievable.
George Papadopoulos and Alex van der Zwaan, figures in the Mueller probe, as well as former Reps. Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins, were granted clemency.
Her comments came just days after The Associated Press reported that she traveled out of state for the Thanksgiving holiday.
As President Trump continues to look for ways to overturn the 2020 election, he has also continued to raise massive sums of money — over half a billion dollars since mid-October, including more than $250 million since Election Day. The New York Times reports more than $60 million of what Trump raised has gone to a new political action committee that he will control after he leaves office, an unprecedented war chest for an outgoing president.
More than 40 countries have temporarily suspended some or all travel from the United Kingdom after British health officials announced a highly infectious variant of the novel coronavirus has been spreading in the country. South Africa has detected a similar variant. The new variant is believed to be 70% more contagious, but health experts say existing vaccines will still be effective against it.
As Congress passes a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, the first new aid since April, critics say the bill does not go far enough in providing direct aid to those most impacted by the economic downturn.
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
A shocking exposé in The Intercept reveals CIA-backed death squads in Afghanistan have killed children as young as 8 years old in a series of night raids, many targeting madrassas, Islamic religious schools. In December 2018, one of the death squads attacked a madrassa in Wardak province, killing 12 boys, of whom the youngest was 9 years old.
“When you finish a job, you’re always thinking about how to reinvent yourself,” Donald Trump’s former attorney said.
The evangelical leader praised the president’s ability to raise money and draw crowds but also said he “lives in an alternate reality.
Smartmatic, a voting systems company, has threatened multiple outlets with defamation suits.
The Turning Point USA leader apparently thinks the number of counties a candidate wins matters more than the number of votes.
Trump appointees sought to change reports “in a misguided effort to achieve herd immunity,” House investigators found.