House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said people clamoring for additional direct funding for states in federal rescue legislation should “just calm down” and vowed that Democrats will secure the money in later rounds of legislating in response to the coronavirus outbreak. “Just calm down,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said on CNN’s “State of the…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., owes Americans an apology for delaying important stimulus bills in Congress and politicizing the coronavirus crisis, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Saturday."She has held up every single bill, when it came to coronavirus, that we put forth,"…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the delay on passing emergency coronavirus relief funds Thursday, saying Republicans refused to spend much-needed money in other areas. “What we have on the floor today is the result of — not the time we delayed the legislation — but the time that the Republicans refused to accept the facts…
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood firm in demanding that the fourth covid-19 relief bill include money for health-care workers and for states and localities, Republicans howled. How dare she hold up money to small business! She’s on the wrong side of public opinion. Well, as we have seen so many times before, Pelosi…
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…