Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin indicated Thursday that the White House will not back the kind of sweeping coronavirus relief it supported in earlier bills, instead opting for narrower aid even as the pandemic ravages the United States.Congress plans to return from a Fourth of July break later this month for two weeks of work before…
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. | Al Drago/Pool via AP Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned Thursday against locking down the country again even as fears grow about a potential second wave of coronavirus cases. "We can't shut down the economy again," Mnuchin said in an interview on CNBC. "We've learned that if you shut down the…
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC on Monday the administration is unfazed with the federal government's historic $3 trillion in spending to combat the impact of the coronavirus thanks to the nation's very low interest rates."One of the reasons I do feel comfortable with us spending all this money is because interest rates are very low.…
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…