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Jun 17 2021
News
GOP crushes Manchin’s hopes for elections compromise
Senate Republicans spent months praising Joe Manchin for his insistence on cross-party compromise. Next week they will almost surely end his hopes for a bipartisan deal on elections.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he believed all 50 Republicans would oppose Sen. Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) slimmed-down elections compromise, which focuses on expanding early voting and ending
PoliticoOct 21 2021
News
COP26: Document leak reveals nations lobbying to change key climate report
A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change.
The leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.
It also shows some wealthy nations are questioning paying more to poorer states to move to
BBC NewsApr 30 2021
News
Cheney on fist bump with Biden: 'We're not sworn enemies. We're Americans'
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) responded to her critics who slammed her for giving President Biden a fist bump before his address to Congress on Wednesday.
“I disagree strongly w/@JoeBiden policies, but when the President reaches out to greet me in the chamber of the US House of Representatives, I will always respond in a civil, respectful & dignified way,” Cheney tweeted on Thursday.
The HillApr 08 2021
News
National debt is surging higher. Here’s why worry is heading lower.
Politicians of both parties have long kicked concerns about national debt down the road. Now an era of low interest rates and a focus on economic recovery push the value of fiscal responsibility even further out of sight.
Like the swallows to Mission San Juan Capistrano and the buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio, the doves on government debt have returned to Washington.
And in a big way
Christian Science MonitorOct 04 2021
News
McConnell reactivates his connection to Biden — with a sharp debt warning
Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell’s two-man emergency hotline had gone silent — until now.
The Senate minority leader on Monday morning prodded the president to talk his party into raising the debt ceiling without the GOP, the first step in what may become a complicated back-and-forth. McConnell has warned for months that he won't supply the votes to raise the nation's borrowing limit even
PoliticoNov 12 2020
Opinion
Harvesting the 2020 Election
The Trump campaign is pressing its case that last week’s ballot counting was off, and it will get its day in court. But if Republicans want a fuller accounting of the shenanigans, they’ll need to look much further back than Election Day. They’ll need to internalize Nancy Pelosi’s H.R. 1, and then do battle.
House Resolution 1 is the designation for the first bill unveiled in any new
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Jun 15 2021
News
Southwest Airlines grounds its entire fleet amid giant computer outage
Southwest Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday for the second time in less than 24 hours, amid reports of nationwide computer issues.
Air travelers took to Twitter by the thousands with reports of what airline staff reportedly told them was a computer system outage — hours after “intermittent performance issues” with a third-party weather app forced a similar group stop
New York Post (News)Jan 17 2022
News
Biden repositioning on pandemic as midterm elections loom
President Joe Biden took office promising to "shut down" COVID-19, but in recent weeks, he has taken steps toward acknowledging that the virus will not be eradicated, repositioning to limit damage in the midterm elections.
The focus of messaging from the White House and top administration health officials continues to promote vaccinations, masks, and caution. But in several notable
Washington ExaminerJan 17 2022
News
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Family to Mark Holiday With Voting-Rights March
The nation’s capital will mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a march for voting rights led by the late civil rights leader’s family, as congressional Democrats vow to press ahead on voting-rights legislation despite its expected failure.
The leaders of the march are urging people to call on Congress to enact changes to elections law nationwide in lieu of celebrations on the federal
Wall Street Journal (News)Oct 09 2020
News
A covid-19 diagnosis, texts suggesting infidelity roil pivotal N.C. Senate race
On Thursday night, Sen. Thom Tillis (R) and Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham bumped elbows at their final debate in the contentious North Carolina race that could determine which party controls the Senate.
Not 24 hours later, both candidates’ lives — and possibly the fate of the upper chamber — were upended, as Tillis tested positive for the novel coronavirus and Cunningham
Washington Post