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GOP coronavirus plan includes another $1,200 check, cuts unemployment benefit to $200 
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans presented their $1 trillion plan to bolster the pandemic-ravaged U.S. economy in a series of bills that would trim extra unemployment benefits, send $1,200 payments to most Americans, and shield businesses, schools and other organizations from lawsuits stemming from covid-19 infections. The $1 trillion package was...
Reagan Foundation distances itself from Trump campaign and the president isn't pleased
Don’t win this for the Gipper, Mr. President. The Reagan Foundation is distancing itself from President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. CNN reports that the organization representing the interests and legacy of late President Ronald Reagan reached out to Trump’s campaign last week to ask that that they stop hawking a...
Wealthy donors pour millions into fight over mail-in voting
WASHINGTON — Deep-pocketed and often anonymous donors are pouring over $100 million into an intensifying dispute about whether it should be easier to vote by mail, a fight that could determine President Donald Trump’s fate in the November election. In the battleground of Wisconsin, cash-strapped cities have received $6.3 million...
Joe Biden is beating Trump big in Pennsylvania. Will anything change that? 
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania was supposed to be a dogfight in this year’s presidential race. Decided by less than 1 percentage point in 2016 and crucial to the electoral math for both President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, both parties began the year prepared for a scrap to the finish. But...
White House pushes narrow virus aid; Pelosi blasts GOP delay
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday assailed Republican “disarray” over a new pandemic relief package as the White House suggested a narrower effort might be necessary, at least for now. The California Democrat panned the Trump administration’s desire to trim an expiring temporary federal unemployment benefit from $600...
Everywhere and nowhere: The many layers of 'cancel culture'
NEW YORK — So you’ve probably read a lot about “cancel culture.” Or know about a new poll that shows a plurality of Americans disapproving of it. Or you may have heard about a letter in Harper’s Magazine condemning censorship and intolerance. But can you say exactly what “cancel culture”...
AP-NORC poll: U.S. course at record low, Trump sinks on coronavirus 
WASHINGTON — With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump’s presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position as his reelection bid against Democrat Joe Biden enters a pivotal stretch. A new...
Kanye West tweets apology to wife Kim Kardashian hours after boasting he can beat Biden
Kanye West is still in with his potential future first lady. In an active day on social media, the 43-year-old hip-hop star offered a mea culpa to Kim Kardashian mere hours after proclaiming he could still win the presidency. “I would like to apologize to my wife Kim for going...
Mnuchin: Virus aid package soon, $1,200 checks by August
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that Republicans were set to roll out the next covid-19 aid package Monday and assured there was backing from the White House after he and President Trump’s top aide met to salvage the $1 trillion proposal that floundered only days before. Mnuchin...
John Roberts' latest deciding vote spurs wrath of conservatives
The latest Supreme Court vote cast by Chief Justice John Roberts, rejecting an effort by a Nevada church to ease limits on attendance at its services during the coronavirus pandemic, was condemned by conservative lawmakers. Roberts was the decider late Friday, joining the court’s liberals in a 5-4 vote against...
Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Ossoff quarantines after wife positive for virus
ATLANTA — Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff is in isolation as is his wife, who contracted covid-19, Ossoff confirmed Saturday. Ossoff, 33, said his wife, Dr. Alisha Kramer, has mild coronavirus symptoms and that he’s showing symptoms, too. He said he was tested Saturday and is awaiting results while...
California, Florida, Texas lose House seats with Trump order
ORLANDO, Fla. — If President Donald Trump succeeds in getting immigrants in the country illegally excluded from being counted in the redrawing of U.S. House districts, California, Florida and Texas would end up with one less congressional seat each than if every resident were counted, according to an analysis by...
Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown
TROY, Ala. — Civil rights icon and longtime Georgia congressman John Lewis was remembered Saturday — in the rural Alabama county where his story began — as a humble man who sprang from his family’s farm with a vision that “good trouble” could change the world. The morning service in...
Trump mocks Portland mayor who was gassed by federal troops
President Donald Trump called Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler “pathetic” after the Oregon politician was gassed by federal troops while standing among protesters outside a courthouse. “He made a fool out of himself. He wanted to be among the people, so he went into the crowd and they knocked the hell...
Trump calls off Florida segment of GOP National Convention 
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s hopes to salvage a four-night celebration for his reelection campaign have been thwarted by spiking coronavirus cases across the Sun Belt, with the president announcing Thursday that he was calling off the public events of the Republican National Convention scheduled to be held in Florida....
Congress defies Trump veto threat on Confederate base names
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday joined the House in defying a veto threat from President Donald Trump to approve defense legislation that would remove the names of Confederate officers from American military bases such as Fort Bragg and Fort Benning. The Senate approved the annual policy measure, 86-14, a...
AOC admonishes Rep. Ted Yoho in fiery speech on House floor: 'I am someone's daughter' 
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s outrage over a Republican lawmaker’s verbal assault broadened into an extraordinary moment on the House floor Thursday as she and other Democrats assailed a sexist culture of “accepting violence and violent language against women” whose adherents include President Donald Trump. A day after rejecting an...
Biden, Obama pair in socially distanced video to decry Trump 
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is releasing a video of his first in-person meeting with Barack Obama since the coronavirus outbreak began, enlisting the former president to help slam his successor’s response to the pandemic. Snippets offered by Biden’s campaign showed the pair wearing masks while arriving at an office, then...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rejects GOP colleague's apology in verbal spat
WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman offered an apology Wednesday for the “abrupt manner” he used in a verbal confrontation with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but denied aiming a sexist slur at her. Ocasio-Cortez rejected her colleague’s words, saying they were “not an apology” and what she heard was a vulgar slur....
House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol 
WASHINGTON — The House has approved a bill to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders from the U.S. Capitol, as well as a bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, the author of the 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared African Americans couldn’t be citizens. Besides...
Democrats press McConnell on coronavirus aid, but some in GOP revolt 
WASHINGTON — Despite disarray in the Republican ranks, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed Wednesday to unveil a draft covid-19 aid package as the White House resists Democratic demands for more virus testing, state funding and housing eviction protections. Key GOP senators revolted over the emerging effort as the price...
Reports: Woody Johnson accused of corruption, racism, sexism as U.S. ambassador to U.K.
NEW YORK — Jets owner Woody Johnson has been absent from the team since late 2017, serving as President Trump’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. From the sound of several reports published Tuesday and Wednesday, he’s exported the Jets’ signature leadership abroad. A New York Times story is mostly focused...
Trump has been on both sides of the states' rights argument
WASHINGTON — When it comes to states’ rights, President Donald Trump is all over the map. To battle the coronavirus, he’s told states they’re largely on their own. But when it comes to stamping out protests in cities led by Democrats, Trump is sending in federal troops and agents —...
Apology demanded from GOP lawmaker Ted Yoho for Ocasio-Cortez remark
WASHINGTON — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused a Republican colleague on Tuesday of angrily harassing her outside the Capitol over her progressive views in an encounter that a reporter said ended with the congressman using a sexist slur as he walked away. The No. 2 House Democrat demanded that...
Trump excluding those in U.S. illegally from reapportionment
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the United States illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, a move that drew immediate criticism and promises of court challenges. Trump said “respect for the law and protection of the integrity of the democratic process...


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