DEPT. OF NEW URGENCY … AT 9:30 this morning, Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL and Sen. TIM SCOTT (R-S.C.) will hold a news conference where, barring some last-second, bizarre change of plan, the pair will announce that the Senate will consider police reform legislation next week.YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT: The Senate is clearing floor…
FRIDAY we wrote that PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S challenge “is as it always is: compassion, control and message discipline.” But instead of taking the opportunity at the White House on Friday afternoon to try to quell the growing unrest in cities across the country and try to bring Americans together following the police killing of George…
THE PRESIDENT’S MEMORIAL DAY MESSAGES, on Twitter this morning: 8:16 a.m.: “HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!” … 8:18 a.m.: “TRANSITION TO GREATNESS! Get ready, it is already happening again!” … retweet of 11:06 p.m. tweet: “OBAMAGATE” … retweet of another 11:06 p.m. tweet: “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” … And this imageSOME MEMORIAL DAY fronts: L.A. Times: “REMEMBERING…
A BUNCH OF INTERESTING CAMPAIGN FINANCE NUGGETS … 1) THIS IS NEW … THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE has spent nearly $400,000 buying 25,500 copies of Rep. DAN CRENSHAW’S (R-Texas) book “Fortitude” for donors. They used the book to entice Republicans to give money to the NRCC. ONE OF THE SOLICITATIONS FROM THE NRCC READS:…
THE READ-THE-FINE-PRINT PRESIDENCY: President DONALD TRUMP stood in the Rose Garden on Monday and said that his coronavirus strategy has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. “In every generation, through every challenge and hardship and danger, America has risen to the task. We have met the moment and we have prevailed,” the president said.IT SEEMED…
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…