Joseph R. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, outlined a proposal Tuesday calling for $775 billion in federal spending to expand child care and home care services for older Americans and people with disabilities. The proposal is the latest plank of the former vice president’s “Build Back Better” agenda for the nation to recover from…
French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a joint news conference at the end of the European summit at EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Thys/AFP via Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for a…
BRUSSELS — European leaders on Tuesday morning agreed to a vast spending plan to rescue the economies of coronavirus-hit countries, overcoming deep-seated divisions on the extent to which rich European Union nations should commit to helping poorer ones.The deal on a $2.1 trillion E.U. budget and rescue package came after a marathon four days of…
Most of the $500 billion in coronavirus stimulus funds that had been earmarked for emergency Treasury Department and Federal Reserve loan programs had yet to be spent as of last week, according to a report released on Monday. The Treasury and the Fed have outlined how they plan to use $195 billion of the $454 billion allocated…
President Trump reaffirmed late Tuesday that he would veto this year’s proposed $740 billion annual defense bill if an amendment is included that would require the Pentagon to change the names of bases named for Confederate military leaders, his strongest rebuke against the measure amid a national reckoning over systemic racism.Shortly before midnight, the president…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…