Новости за 11.06.2020

The House will vote the week of June 29th on a bill aimed at improving the Affordable Care Act (ACA), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday. Hoyer said the measure would help improve the affordability of plans under the...

A pair of senior members of the Congressional Black Caucus introduced legislation on Thursday that would remove the remaining Confederate statues from the Capitol following nationwide protests against police brutality and...

Senators are barreling toward a late-night vote amid a standoff over whether to allow amendments to a lands bill.Republicans, leaving a closed-door caucus lunch, said that they expect they will need to return to the Capitol at 1 a.m. Friday for a...

The political arm for the network of groups led by Charles Koch is putting more than $1 million behind new ads running in Texas, Montana, Georgia and North Carolina to support vulnerable GOP senators....

Several Republican senators backed Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley's statement on Thursday voicing regret for participating in President Trump's photo-op outside St. John's Church last week. ...

An attorney for Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old man shoved to the ground by police in Buffalo, N.Y., at a recent protest, said Thursday that Gugino's “brain is injured” and that he is beginning physical therapy.“As most of you know, Martin...

Stocks plummeted Thursday as the emergence of new coronavirus hotspots and a caution from the Federal Reserve chairman shook Wall Street after months of steady gains.The Dow Jones Industrial Average cl...

Presumptive Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden holds a narrow lead over President Trump in Florida, according to a new poll released Thursday, the latest sign that Trump's adoptive home state is still...

Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) said on Thursday that he will introduce Republicans’ police reform bill by the middle of next week.Scott was appointed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to lead a working group of GOP senators tasked with...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) charged Thursday that the polling problems dogging Georgia's primary elections this week were part of a broader Republican effort to suppress the vote around the country."What we saw in Georgia the other day was...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the decision whether to remove Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol should be left up to the states."Every state is allowed two statues, they can trade them out at any time...

President Trump is scheduled to participate in a roundtable discussion Thursday afternoon in Dallas.The event is slated to begin at 4 p.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked the White House coronavirus task force to brief Senate Democrats next week on the status of the pandemic as several states begin to see surges in new cases. Schumer said that the briefing...

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said Thursday that "eight or more" police officers were seen lounging in his damaged campaign office in the South Side of Chicago two weeks ago as neighboring businesses were looted amid protests over the...

A man who worked at the Minneapolis nightclub where George Floyd and Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged in Floyd's killing, both worked security has retracted a claim that he had observed friction between the two at the club....

President Trump rebuked Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Thursday after a Republican-led Senate panel approved her amendment to annual policy legislation that would require the Pentagon to rename bases named after Confederate military leaders....

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is calling on Maryland's Montgomery County to amend a COVID-19 order to allow for religious gatherings after officials permitted protests over George Floyd's...

Far-right British politician Nigel Farage left his LBC radio station job on Thursday, a sudden departure following his controversial statements this week comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to the Taliban....

A meat packing plant in Utah remains open despite a recent outbreak of coronavirus that makes up one-third of the state's new cases.A JBS Beef Plant in Hyrum, Utah, had 287 employees test positive for coronavirus o...

Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), the only African American Republican in the Senate, isn’t taking a position yet on whether to rename U.S. military bases named after Confederate generals.Scott, who is taking the lead in drafting GOP legislation responding to...

Buffalo, N.Y., city council members on Tuesday voted to reopen the case of a police officer fired in 2008 after she intervened to prevent another officer from applying a chokehold on a suspect.The resolution approv...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday said states and not Congress should make decisions on removing statues of Confederates that stand in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.“When it comes to statues, states have the power to select...

House Democrats will bring a sweeping infrastructure package to the floor by the end of the month, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday.The package, authored by Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), is part...

A man who served as the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) top spokesman from 2005 to 2009 has pleaded guilty to defrauding several companies of more than $4 million while pretending to be a CIA operative.Garrison Courtney, who served as a...

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday dismissed Joe Biden's concerns that President Trump is going to "try to steal" November's election."I think that's a ridiculous proposition," McEnany said on...