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- Biden wades into Texas with first general election TV ad in state
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 06:49 AMJoe Biden's campaign is debuting its first general election television ad in Texas on Tuesday, dipping its toes in a state long considered a Republican stronghold and one that's seen an uptick in Covid-19 cases in recent weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New PAC aims to elect candidates who will focus on policy to end daily gun violence
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 08:02 AMRobert Emmons Jr.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Primary elections and runoffs in Texas, Alabama and Maine: 9 things to watch in Tuesday's down-ballot races
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 08:17 AMThree states host down-ballot contests on Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Roger Stone denies he protected Trump to secure commutation of sentence
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 10:59 PMLongtime President Donald Trump friend and political adviser Roger Stone said Monday evening that he had not protected the President in exchange for a commutation, in his first TV interview since Trump commuted his prison sentence last week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Analysis: Can Trump fire Fauci? Technically, no
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:28 PMPresident Donald Trump on Monday sought to downplay tension with Dr.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US declares 'most' of China's maritime claims in South China Sea illegal
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 10:48 PMUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday announced a formal rejection of "most" of China's maritime claims in the South China Sea, the latest in the escalation between Washington and Beijing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Delayed use of Defense Production Act leads to ongoing shortages of protective gear
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 10:05 PMNearly four months after invoking a 1950s-era law in order to compel businesses to manufacture equipment for the fight against the coronavirus, the Trump administration has made only sparing use of its authorities, leaving front-line workers in dire need of supplies like masks, gowns and gloves amid the recent surge in cases.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Point: Donald Trump's single weirdest belief
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:37 PMOver the weekend, President Donald Trump played golf.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Craig Robinson, longtime basketball coach and brother of Michelle Obama, picked to lead coaches group
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 12:20 PMCraig Robinson, a longtime collegiate basketball coach and the brother of Michelle Obama, will lead the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the organization announced Monday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Point: Do Republicans really want 'a bigger tent' party?
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 03:21 PMMaryland Gov. Larry Hogan was asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday what his vision for the future of the Republican Party looks like.
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- How the coronavirus is shaping health care politics in 2020
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 12:09 AMThe coronavirus outbreak is now burning primarily through states with the highest share of uninsured residents, complicating the local response and amplifying the political debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Texas GOP moves convention online after losing legal battle to hold it in-person
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 09:34 AMThe Texas Republican Party will hold its state convention online this week, after the party said it exhausted "all legal remedies" to host the convention in-person in downtown Houston.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Prison officials in New York called bosses in DC about Michael Cohen before taking him back behind bars, source says
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 10:22 PMBureau of Prison officials in New York gave their bosses in Washington, DC, a heads up before hauling Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, back to prison late last week, a law enforcement official told CNN.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - House Democrats ask Supreme Court to speed things up in Trump financial docs cases
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 11:30 PMThe House of Representatives asked the Supreme Court late Monday night to move faster so it can begin a renewed attempt to obtain documents from President Donald Trump's financial firms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Transcript: Fired US Attorney Geoffrey Berman's interview with House Judiciary Committee
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 06:17 PMThe House Judiciary Committee released a transcript of the committee's July 9 interview with Geoffrey Berman, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York who was fired last month following a tense standoff with Attorney General William Barr.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Judges block six-week abortion bans in Georgia and Tennessee
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 07:00 PMFederal judges blocked controversial abortion restrictions out of Georgia and Tennessee on Monday, a pair of key victories for abortion rights advocates after a flurry of so-called "heartbeat bans" swept state legislatures last year.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-WH chief of staff calls US coronavirus testing capabilities 'simply inexcusable'
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 06:19 PMFormer White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney called the United States' current coronavirus testing capabilities "simply inexcusable" in an op-ed published Monday, marking a rare break from the Trump administration's continued celebration of current testing efforts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Analysis: The race between Biden and Trump is within the true margin of error
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 06:29 PMThere is little doubt that former Vice President Joe Biden is ahead in the polls right now. He regularly posts double-digit advantages nationally and is ahead in the key swing states.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Point: This Republican senator has a wild idea about what voters will care about in November
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 12:58 PMNorth Carolina Republican Sen.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Justice Department releases Roger Stone's commutation paperwork
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 04:36 PMThe Justice Department on Monday released President Donald Trump's signed executive order wiping away the sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone.
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- Daniel Lewis Lee executed after Supreme Court clears the way for first federal execution in 17 years
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 10:22 AMThe Supreme Court cleared the way for the resumption of the federal death penalty, in an unsigned order released after 2 a.m.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Montana entrepreneur who sparked controversy during Puerto Rico hurricane response wins $4M no-bid PPE contract
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 08:00 AMAlmost three years after a tiny Montana company ignited a firestorm of controversy when it signed a massive contract to repair Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered electricity grid, the firm's CEO has won another disaster relief deal: supplying the federal government with protective gear in the fight against the coronavirus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims
Tuesday - 07/14/2020 - 06:39 AMWhile President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US military sees 60 percent jump in coronavirus cases in first few weeks of July
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 06:13 PMThe US military has seen a spike Covid-19 cases in recent weeks, with the number of confirmed cases in July growing by about 4,000, a jump of about 60%, according to Defense Department statistics.
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Monday - 07/13/2020 - 06:19 PMFederal stimulus checks sent to people who have died have been canceled, the Internal Revenue Service says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mueller considered speaking up earlier against Trump and Barr's attacks, sources say
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 07:15 PMFormer special counsel Robert Mueller chose to break his silence and defend his investigation this weekend after weeks of contemplating doing so, in part because an inflammatory and factually incorrect White House statement attacked his prosecution of President Donald Trump's ally Roger Stone, according to multiple sources familiar with the Mueller team.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - McConnell: No recovery bill without lawsuit protections for 'everyone related to the coronavirus'
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 08:45 PMA new plan under development by the White House and Senate Republicans to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is expected to include financial incentives to push schools to reopen while also shielding health care workers and companies against lawsuits, Republicans said Monday, a move that will spur a fight with Democrats.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 17 states, DC sue Trump administration over visa rules for college students
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 02:35 PMAttorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its guidance to not allow foreign students to take online-only courses this fall semester.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump spreads conspiracy from ex-game show host
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 03:25 PMPresident Trump retweeted a conspiracy theory from ex-game show host Chuck Woolery attempting to discredit the CDC and doctors' warnings about the coronavirus.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Judge blocks first federal execution in 17 years
Monday - 07/13/2020 - 04:40 PMA federal judge on Monday blocked the planned execution of convicted killer Daniel Lewis Lee, and three others, citing ongoing challenges to the federal government's lethal injection protocol.
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