PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will get some company in Washington this week, as Congress -- which has been on an elongated July Fourth break -- returns to town. THIS MEANS HUNDREDS of lawmakers running around the Capitol complex, reporters looking for reaction to each of the president’s utterances and, most importantly, the beginning of negotiations over…
PELOSI'S RED LINE? ... SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI told DANA BASH on CNN’S “STATE OF THE UNION” that Republicans must agree to extending the $600 direct payment in unemployment benefits in order to pass the next coronavirus relief package. “Well, we have to find a compromise, because we must extend it. We must extend the unemployment…
DESPITE WHAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WANTS, the idea of a large-scale, celebratory 2020 political convention is a fantasy.-- IF YOU’RE A COMPANY, a law firm or a lobby shop, why would you ever consider putting any money behind a political convention this year? Would you want your logo anywhere near Jacksonville, Fla., or Milwaukee during…
The national atmosphere is toxic enough that Senate Republicans, who currently hold a three-seat majority, no longer have a significant edge in their quest to retain control of the chamber next year. Democrats have both built leads in states that were previously considered up-for-grabs and put new states firmly on the map, expanding their path…
HAPPY SUNDAY MORNING. IF IT’S SUNDAY … it’s a golf day for the president of the United States. The motorcade was on the move at 9:34 a.m., per ASAWIN SUEBSAENG of the Daily Beast. President DONALD TRUMP is at his golf club in Virginia for the 83rd time in his presidency, per CBS Radio’s MARK…
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…