WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed into law a temporary extension of a subsidy program for small businesses battered by the coronavirus.The legislation extends the June 30 deadline for applying for the Paycheck Protection Program to Aug. 8. Lawmakers created the program in March and have modified it twice since, adding money on…
Dennis Boyer, a former lawyer who retired years ago to his farm in southwestern Wisconsin, says there's no question whom he and many people he's talking to are voting for in November: It's Joe Biden.Boyer, a self-described independent voter who said he didn't vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016, said the coronavirus…
Lawmakers have seen increasing pressure to change the flag amid a nationwide reckoning with systematic racism Mississippi state employees Willie Townsend, left, and Joe Brown raise the state flag over the Capitol grounds. Photograph: Rogelio V Solis/Associated Press Mississippi has officially retired the last state flag in the US with the Confederate battle emblem, a…
It appears Cam Newton has found a new home -- with a team that just gave up its megastar quarterback.The former NFL MVP has signed a 1-year deal with the New England Patriots, ESPN and NFL Network reported. The deal is said to be worth up to $7.5 million.Newton, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2011 NFL…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday directing federal law enforcement agencies to prosecute people who damage federal monuments — and to withhold portions of federal funding to cities that don’t protect statues from demonstrators. The order marks the latest in Trump’s ongoing battle against protesters who have pushed for the removal of monuments…
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…