SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – El Salvador on Saturday failed to approve a $250 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic after Congress and President Nayib Bukele could not agree on terms before a deadline expired. According to the government, the IDB offered El…
Regular Americans — those who don’t spend all day watching C-SPAN — probably couldn’t tell you the last time they watched a House committee meeting. Few can explain how Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats select the men and women tasked with leading our country’s most important policymaking committees. So I wouldn’t…
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Many Americans have come to rely on food banks like this one in New York A $600 (£459) jobless benefit paid to tens of millions of unemployed Americans expired overnight after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a deal on its extension. Friday was the deadline…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Friday sought to put the onus on Democrats in Congress for a failure to renew expiring federal jobless benefits, saying they had rejected four offers put forward by the Trump administration without countering. “What we’re seeing is politics as usual from Democrats on…
Mark Weinberg is a communications consultant, speechwriter and the author of “Movie Nights with the Reagans” (Simon & Schuster). He served as special assistant to the president and assistant press secretary in Ronald Reagan’s White House, and as director of public affairs in former President Reagan’s office. The opinions expressed…
David Duke’s closed Twitter account: Twitter Notorious former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke has had his Twitter account suspended less than a month after he endorsed Donald Trump for re-election. A high-profile white supremacist campaigner and agitator who has unsuccessfully run for public office several times, Mr Duke…
The funeral of Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis took place on Thursday, and a crowd of mask-wearing family members, friends, and fellow change-makers were there to pay their respects. Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton each made their way to the podiums to share kind…
(Reuters) – The isolation period for anyone with symptoms of possible COVID-19 in the UK will be increased to 10 days from the current seven, The Telegraph newspaper reported here late on Wednesday. Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam is expected to announce on Thursday the increase in the isolation…
Faced with a disgruntled climate voter during the primary season who wanted him to be tougher on the oil and gas industry, Joe Biden shot him one of his infamous why dont you go vote for someone else responses. But that was six months ago. Now, as the presumptive Democratic…
Life for the perpetually online: you rise from slumber, rub the sleep from your eyes, take a deep sigh, grab your phone, pop open Twitter, and, “What the… ‘demon sperm’ is trending?” At least, that was life on Tuesday for those of us who spend too much time on Twitter.…
