Tag: Elections

Here’s everything the government has done to limit the economic impact

Here’s everything the government has done to limit the economic impact

The federal government is racing to ease the pain facing the U.S. economy as the coronavirus pandemic makes its swift pivot from public health crisis to financial catastrophe. The damage from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new virus, is unlike anything in modern times. Economists have warned the fallout could be similar to that […]

US, Mexico restrict non-essential cross-border travel

US, Mexico restrict non-essential cross-border travel

The U.S. and Mexico have agreed to restrict all non-essential travel across their border, the Trump administration announced Friday. Members of the White House coronavirus task force also said that people who enter the country from Mexico and Canada without proper documentation will be immediately turned away from the United States’ borders. The announcement came two […]

GOP Sen. Hoeven bought up to $250,000 in health fund after briefing

GOP Sen. Hoeven bought up to $250,000 in health fund after briefing

GOP Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., purchased between $100,000 and $250,000 of stock in a fund invested in health sciences companies in late January, just days after attending a briefing on the federal government’s response to the coronavirus. The Jan. 29 purchase of shares in the BlackRock Health Sciences Trust II fund, detailed in Hoeven’s financial disclosure […]

Joe Biden beats Bernie Sanders

Joe Biden beats Bernie Sanders

Joe Biden will win the Michigan primary, NBC News projected Tuesday, in a crushing blow to his last serious Democratic presidential rival, Bernie Sanders.  The former vice president continued a run of early success Tuesday as he tried to put distance between himself and the Vermont senator in his push for his party’s nomination. He […]

Trump downplays oil plunge and coronavirus as markets drop

Trump downplays oil plunge and coronavirus as markets drop

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Yuri Gripas | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump sought to downplay the plunging price of oil and the global spread of the new coronavirus as markets fell […]

Rep. Ken Buck dares Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke to take AR-15 rifle

Rep. Ken Buck dares Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke to take AR-15 rifle

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican, wielded an AR-15 rifle in his office and dared former Vice President Joe Biden and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke to “come and take it” in a jaw-dropping video posted online Friday. “I have a message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, if you want to take everyone’s AR-15s […]

Trump 2020 campaign sues CNN for libel over opinion article

Trump 2020 campaign sues CNN for libel over opinion article

President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Al Drago | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign sued CNN on Friday for libel, following similar […]

Trump signs $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending package

Trump signs $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending package

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a sweeping spending bill to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, pumping billions of dollars into prevention efforts and research in hopes of quickly producing a vaccine for the deadly disease. Trump signed the bill on the same day worldwide cases surpassed 100,000 Lawmakers had worked through […]

Chief Justice Roberts defends Gorsuch, Kavanugh after Schumer comments

Chief Justice Roberts defends Gorsuch, Kavanugh after Schumer comments

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (C) leaves the US Capitol, January 16, 2020, in Washington, DC. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement on Wednesday defending his newest colleagues, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer warned at a rally […]

Super Tuesday Texas primary: Joe Biden wins

Super Tuesday Texas primary: Joe Biden wins

Former 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke endorses former Vice President and Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden for president at a campaign event at Gilley’s in Dallas, Texas, U.S., March 2, 2020. Eric Thayer | Reuters Joe Biden has picked up another huge Super Tuesday win. He will claim victory in […]