Trump pardons 15, including people convicted in Mueller probe – Washington, USA 12/23/2020 (Shutterstock) By Eric Lipton, NY Times The call by President Trump on Saturday to Georgia’s secretary of state raised the prospect that Mr. Trump may have violated laws that prohibit interference in federal or state elections, but lawyers said on Sunday that […]
NYPD School Safety Officer in front of school in Lower Manhattan. – New York – May 3, 2018 (Shutterstock) By Stanley S. Litow, The Conversation Since COVID-19 forced many of America’s schools to teach kids remotely, parents and elected officials have been rightly concerned about when things will get back to normal. But there are […]
Rollup banner promotes ‘A Promised Land’, the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, at Sharjah International Book Fair, at Expo Centre Sharjah. – Sharjah, UAE – November 4-14, 2020 President Barack Obama’s thoughtfulness is obvious to anyone who has observed his political career. In his book, A Promised Land he gives us a riveting, deeply personal […]
The Barack Obama Presidential Center – Chicago, USA 11/17/2020 (Shutterstock) By Justine Coleman, MSN Former President Obama on Tuesday labeled the Republican Party as “the minority party in this country” in a late-night interview. The former president told “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah that the Republican Party does not look like “the minority party” […]
2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, speaks during an event on Thursday, November 14 at Los Angeles Trade–Technical College, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Shutterstock) By Zack Friedman, Forbes Joe Biden can impact your student loans in many ways even if he doesn’t cancel student loans. Here’s what you need to know. Student Loans President-elect Joe Biden has called […]
By Patricia Callahan, ProPublica In an unusually harsh and pointed report, a U.S. House subcommittee, responding to a ProPublica investigation, found widespread evidence that the nation’s largest manufacturers of car seats “endangered the lives of millions of American children and misled consumers about the safety of booster seats” in crashes that can kill or paralyze […]
By Mike DeBonis and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed an economic relief package that would offer far skimpier federal unemployment benefits than what has been proposed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, adding an element of uncertainty into the fragile stimulus negotiations, according to two people familiar with the […]
"We let our guards down. Please tell everybody to be careful. This is real, and if you get diagnosed, get help immediately," former Sen. Larry Dixon said.
By Wilson Wong A former Alabama state senator died of Covid-19 last week at age 78, officials said. The former senator, Larry Dixon, a Republican who was also a former executive director of the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, died Friday, the board said in a statement. Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonologist in Montgomery who […]
By Chris Arnold, NPR With their savings running out, many Americans are being forced to use credit cards to pay for bills they can’t afford — even their rent. Housing experts and economists say this is a blinking-red warning light that without more relief from Congress, the economy is headed for even more serious trouble. There’s been […]
America president Donald Trump after elections. – Washington DC, United States, November 2020 (Shutterstock) By Lauren Martinchek, Medium Even weeks past the election, President Trump is still handling his loss of the 2020 election to Joe Biden exactly as not only people were predicting he would, but how he told us he would since before […]