The federal government will shatter the record for spending and deficits this year, ending at $3.3 trillion in the hole, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, painting a grim picture of Uncle Sam’s finances. Powered by generous aid to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, federal spending will roughly equal a third the size of the U.S.…
The conservative Club for Growth said Thursday it will spend $5 million on ads attacking presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The economic conservative group’s ads are education-focused and portray a contrast between Mr. Biden’s public education goals with President Trump’s agenda. The Club’s new ads will debut Monday…
Washington(CNN) A group of anti-Trump Republicans is spending $2 million on new TV and digital ads supporting former Vice President Joe Biden in two states President Donald Trump won in 2016 -- the l…
Mick Mulvaney, the former acting White House chief of staff, said Tuesday the country might have overreacted a bit to the coronavirus pandemic and that it’s time to allow people to get back to work safely. “I think we’ve sort of lost perspective on this a little bit. … We’ve overreacted a little bit,” Mr.…
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…