“Why would you fan the flames?” she said of the president’s tweet. “That’s all I’m going to say.” But though the moderate Murkowski was nearly rendered speechless, the missive mostly failed to get a rise out of Senate Republicans. Many know Trump will tweet something else soon they will be asked to respond to, even…
Senate Republicans are crafting their own legislation to compete with House Democrats’ plan to overhaul policing across the country, though there are already some areas for potential common ground. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tasked Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only black GOP senator, to lead a team drafting the bill. The Kentucky…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a floor speech that the economy has "bottomed out" as he touted improving jobs numbers. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo The United States officially is in a recession. But Senate Republicans are still in no rush to dole out more coronavirus relief. Buoyed by a surprisingly strong jobs report…
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said Monday former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, needs to be vocal about where he stands on the “Defund Police” movement, as many progressive Democrats have called for the defunding and disbanding of police departments in major cities. It has been a new rallying cry…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.House Republicans filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to block a system of proxy voting put in place during the coronavirus pandemic on the grounds that it is unconstitutional.Proxy voting would allow House members to vote on…
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…