ATLANTA — Democrats in Georgia’s high-stakes runoff election Tuesday are doing what their counterparts in other competitive Senate races didn’t do: They’re leaning in to a populist economic message and embracing the prospect of a Democratic-led Senate. The potential to flip the chamber has turned what could have been a sleepy January runoff into a […]
Frustrations flared in the Senate during a rare New Years Day session as lawmakers battled for the fourth day in a row over a proposal to increase the amount of recently approved coronavirus relief checks. Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed bill to increase the stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 on Friday, as well as […]
The mother of a 2-year-old boy who died of heatstroke after being left inside a car has been arrested, Louisiana authorities said this week. Natalie Broussard, 27, is being held on $75,000 bond in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on a negligent homicide charge in connection with the death of Ryatt Hensley, according to jail […]
A $100,000 reward was offered Sunday in the hunt for a gunman who brazenly walked up to a parked patrol SUV and shot two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies multiple times in what officials described as an ambush-style attack. Both sheriff’s deputies were initially “fighting for their lives” at St. Francis Medical Center in Los […]
President Trump canceled a planned 2018 trip to a cemetery for American war dead in France because of the weather and not because of disdain for the slain soldiers who are buried there or concern about how the weather would affect his hair, two sources told Fox News, despite a report from The Atlantic making […]
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) urged President Trump on Sunday to “reconsider” his plans to visit Kenosha, Wis., which has been rocked by unrest for the past several nights following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police. In a letter to the White House shared by Evers’s office Sunday afternoon, the governor warned that Trump’s […]
The Disney Channel animated series “The Owl House” has made history by having Disney’s first bisexual lead character. Luz Noceda, the show’s 14-year-old protagonist, is a normal teen who goes on a journey to another world to become a witch. Luz has shown she’s attracted to male characters in the show, and in the two […]
President Trump on Monday said he may hold a small memorial service for his late brother Robert Trump at the White House at the end of the week. “We’re looking at Friday. And we may do just a small service right here in the White House for my brother. We’re looking at doing that,” Trump […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A protester who was apparently armed with a rifle at a demonstration against police violence in the Texas capital was shot and killed after a witness says he approached a vehicle that had driven through the crowd and the driver opened fire. The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Saturday as demonstrators […]
A nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said she was sent home after refusing to wear a surgical mask instead of a protective respirator to treat COVID-19 patients — and that she was denied a coronavirus test even after she began displaying symptoms. A nurse at a hospital in Kentucky said she was […]
A salvo of rockets hit an Iraqi base on Saturday outside Baghdad that houses American troops, Iraqi officials told The Associated Press. Officials told the wire service that more than a dozen rockets landed near the base, Camp Taji, and that two Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack. The strike comes days after Kataib […]
The House overwhelmingly passed nearly $8 billion in emergency funding to combat the coronavirus on Wednesday amid growing concerns about a widespread outbreak within the United States. The 415-2 House vote sends the legislation to the Senate, where it will be considered Thursday. That could get the measure to the White House by the end […]
