Новости за 10.06.2020

Republican senators are leaning into their go-slow approach on the next coronavirus bill.Bolstered by last week’s unexpectedly positive jobs report, Senate Republicans are signaling they will not pass another bill before late July. They have also...

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) is scrambling to fend off his most serious primary challenge in years, as progressives set their sights on taking out a congressman that has represented parts of New York City and its suburbs for more than three decades.The...

Clay Middleton, former senior adviser on Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-N.J.) 2020 presidential campaign, was hired as a senior vice president at Mercury Public Affairs. Middleton, a major in the South Carolina Army National Guard, was director of...

President Trump on Tuesday evening thanked Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (R) after the GOP official said he would support the president's reelection bid this year."Thank you George, great honor!" Trump twe...

Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting trip to Mongolia last August cost more than $75,000 in taxpayer dollars for Secret Service protection, according to ...

Donald Trump Jr.’s hunting trip to Mongolia last August cost more than $75,000 in taxpayer dollars for Secret Service protection, according to new documents obtained by a government watchdog group.The documents obtained by the nonprofit group...

A House Democrat has introduced a bill that would ban presidents or other federal officials from using nuclear bombs in an attempt to alter weather patterns.Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) told The Washington Post in an interview published Tuesday that...

Fencing around Lafayette Park across the street from the White House will remain up until further notice even as barriers south of the White House start to come down, officials said Tuesday."The temporary fencing on the south side of the White House...

Republican senators introduced a resolution on Tuesday to formally oppose calls to "defund the police," an idea that has gained traction with some activist groups.If passed, the non-binding resolution, spearheaded by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would...

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on Tuesday sought to use past praise from Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) against the congressman as the two face off in their Democratic Senate race.Markey tweeted several clips of the cong...

CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman announced his resignation Tuesday following uproar over comments he made about George Floyd, the unarmed black Minneapolis man whose death has sparked a wave of protests throughout the country."On Saturday, I created a...

Republican state Rep. Nancy Mace will face off against incumbent Rep. Joe Cunningham (D) in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District this November.Cunningham ran unopposed in the Democratic primary Tuesday, whil...

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito easily won West Virginia's GOP Senate primary Tuesday as she marches toward a second term in the upper chamber.Moore Capito won with 85 percent of the vote with 18 percent of precincts rep...

New York lawmakers have passed a bill to repeal a 40-year-old law that seals police disciplinary records, a move intended to provide greater accountability for officers.The regulation, colloquially known as 50-a af...

Joe Biden's presidential campaign raised $3.5 million in a fundraiser co-hosted with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a top contender to be the former vice president's running mate this November.The hefty haul was fu...

Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a resolution aimed at condemning acts of violence against reporters and threats to freedom of the press in the United States.Reps. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-...

Senate Republicans are facing new headaches from an old source: President Trump's Twitter account.The president this month has weighed in on the handling of protesters, called out several Repu...

President Trump is sinking behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in polls less than five months from Election Day amid a series of damaging responses to the national protests sparked by the death of...

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African American in Congress, is pushing back against the growing calls to defund police departments around the nation in wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who...

More than a thousand COVID-19 lawsuits have been filed in the past six weeks, prompting business groups to refocus almost all their lobbying efforts on securing liability protections from Congress.Almost 1,300 coronavirus-related lawsuits have been...

The State Department is asking for a government watchdog panel to investigate Steve Linick, the department's ousted inspector general.Brian Bulatao, the department's under secretary for Management and a long-time ally of Secretary...

Sen. Lindsey Graham won South Carolina's GOP Senate primary Tuesday as he seeks a fourth term.Graham has faced difficulties in past primaries, winning only 56 percent of the vote in 2014, though he faced no difficu...

Congressional Republicans are walking a fine line as they craft police reforms in response to the public outcry over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in police custody last month.GOP leaders don’t support the Democrats’...

The AFL-CIO on Tuesday called on Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley to resign for their roles in last week's photo-op by President Trump outside a church neat the White House.Streets near the...

Holding safe and fair elections in the midst of a pandemic is challenging for everyone—but eight states make it even harder for voters under a certain age to participate this year. That’s unconstitutional, because the Constitution prohibits age...