Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., defended Democrats' insistence on including additional provisions in legislation that Republicans only wanted to replenish funds for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), despite small businesses now having to wait for relief.Karen Mills, the former…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. | Scott Heins/Getty Images Senate Democrats on Friday called on the Trump administration to release a fuller picture of where billions of dollars in emergency small business loans have landed, as Congress remains deadlocked over funding the economic rescue effort. In a letter to the Treasury Department and Small Business…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi leaves with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, after speaking to the media during her weekly briefing March 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty ImagesDemocrats have pushed for changes to the program and more funds to support local governments battling the pandemic. Republicans have accused the…
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…