Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, has tested positive for coronavirus, a spokesman told NBC News on Friday. “Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result. He’s been completely asymptomatic so far and is following all medically recommended COVID-19 guidelines,” the spokesman […]
ATLANTA — A hand tally of the presidential race in Georgia is complete, and the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s lead over Republican President Donald Trump. Biden went into the recount with a margin of 13,558 votes. Previously uncounted ballots discovered during the hand count will reduce that margin to about 12,800 votes, Gabriel Sterling, […]
The White House Coronavirus Task Force’s Dr. Anthony Fauci called on Americans to “put to rest” theories that an FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine might be unsafe. “We need to put to rest any concept that this was rushed in any inappropriate way. This is really solid,” Fauci said of the coronavirus vaccine candidates, two of which […]
Twelve million people would lose federal benefits the day after Christmas if Congress does not pass extensions for key unemployment programs, according to a study by The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank. “Absent congressional action to extend CARES Act benefits, December 26 will mark the end of one of the last lifelines available to […]
President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani on Sunday insisted that the presidential election would be “overturned,” claiming he had “evidence” that “corrupt machines” had deleted millions of votes for Trump — but couldn’t share it. In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” the ex-Big Apple mayor, who was recently tapped to lead Trump’s post-election […]
If “the clothes make the man,” then, for conservative commentator Candace Owens, those clothes better be “manly.” Indeed, she argues, human civilization depends on it. Owens’ remarks, broadcast in a series of tweets, were in response to British pop star Harry Styles’ donning a Gucci gown replete with lace and ruffles, under a black blazer, […]
The Trump administration is preparing to move forward with a major proposal to lower drug prices and rulemaking could come as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the effort. The move, fiercely opposed by the pharmaceutical industry, would implement President Trump’s “most favored nation” proposal and lower certain Medicare drug prices to […]
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday warned that the biggest threat to the country and to his transition posed by President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 race is that “more people may die.” Biden made the stark warning during remarks about the economy from Wilmington, Delaware, during which he was asked by NBC News’s […]
President-elect Joe Biden denounced “all acts of violence” in a statement to Fox News after attacks on President Trump’s supporters at the so-called Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. “President-elect Biden continues to denounce all acts of violence,” Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates said Monday, although he did not name Antifa or Black Lives […]
President-elect Joe Biden plans, on his first day in the White House, to enact four executive orders rolling back President Trump’s efforts on a number of issues, the campaign told Fox News on Monday. The executive actions would include rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, reinstating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, rejoin the World […]
Two conservative justices on the Supreme Court appeared prepared to preserve at least some of the major components of ObamaCare, including its protections for people with preexisting conditions, as they heard arguments Tuesday in a suit challenging the law. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed to express the view that if the […]
President Trump on Monday said he fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and that Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will take over as acting defense secretary “effective immediately.” “Mark Esper has been terminated,” Trump tweeted, his first ousting of a Cabinet official since the election was called for Democratic nominee Joe […]