Новости за 06.03.2020

Moderate Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.) defeated his most serious primary challenge to date this week and will advance to the general election in November against Republican Kevin Cookingham.Costa, an eight-term incumbent and member of the Blue Dog...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday announced new qualifying standards for the upcoming Arizona debate that will leave only the top two contenders on stage.Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) did not meet t...

President Trump's reelection campaign is suing CNN for defamation, filing its third lawsuit in two weeks against a major media outlet over opinion columns about Russian efforts to assist his 2016 presidential bid.The lawsuit, filed in federal court...

President Trump on Friday vowed to protect Social Security and Medicare after appearing to say at a town hall the night before that he would look to cut funding for those types of programs if elected to a second term."I will protect your Social...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let it enforce a policy that requires asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases proceed through American courts.The request comes after a lower court deemed the “Remain in...

President Trump on Friday dismissed the idea that sexism had something to do with Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) struggles in the Democratic presidential primary after she dropped out of the 2020 race the day before."No, I think lack of talent...

Democrats in the House and Senate introduced legislation Friday that would require all employers to grant workers paid sick days in light of the global coronavirus spread. The bill unveiled by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Sen. Patty Murray (...

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) on Friday challenged former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to take his AR-15-style rifle from his congressional office in Washington, D.C."I have just one message for Joe Biden and [former Rep...

Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, the influential Agriculture Committee chairman and the last remaining opponent of both impeachment articles in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus, will run for reelection this year in a district where President...

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Friday that the administration is considering “targeted” relief to workers and businesses hindered by the steadily growing cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus.Kudlow expressed confidence that the U.S....

The House is asking a full appeals court to rehear its case for subpoenaing former White House counsel Don McGahn after a divided three-judge panel ruled last week that congressional subpoenas of the executive branch are legally unenforceable....

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) will vote to subpoena a former consultant linked to Burisma Holdings, as part of a GOP probe into Hunter Biden and the Ukraine gas company. Liz Johnson, a spokeswoman for Romney, said Friday that he would support...

President Trump will visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta on Friday afternoon after the White House initially canceled the trip.Trump told reporters earlier Friday morning that the administration had...

President Trump on Friday gave a vote of confidence to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar amid criticism of his handling of the coronavirus outbreak and questions about his standing in the administration.Trump called...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is signaling potential support for a probe into former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden and Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings. "I think it's worth taking a look at," McConnell told...

MSNBC's Brian Williams was mocked over math on social media after quoting a tweet claiming that former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg "could have given each American $1 million and still have money...

President Trump will meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro this weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.The White House said Friday that the meeting would take place on Saturday and that the two leaders would...

President Trump on Friday signed a bill providing $8.3 billion in emergency funding to combat the coronavirus outbreak.The bill provides $7.76 billion to federal, state and local agencies to combat the coronavirus and authorizes an additional $500...

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said in a soon-to-be-released episode of "Axios on HBO" that the conditions for people who are detained at the Mexico border are "quite nice.""A lot of the people who have been detained there have...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday that presidential candidates are responsible for attacks their supporters are making online, adding that such attacks are a problem among supporters of Sen. Bernie Sande...

An Alabama man was executed Thursday evening after the Supreme Court issued a temporary stay on his death penalty punishment only to lift it soon after. Nathaniel Woods, 44, was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m, according to the Montegomery Advisor....

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday she still has faith a woman can be elected to the White House - it just may take a little bit longer. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow questioned Warren over frustrat...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is asking for an independent review of the case of Myon Burrell, a black teenager sentenced to life after an 11-year-old black girl was killed in 2002 by a stray bullet duri...

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James sent a letter to Jim Bakker this week, warning the longtime televangelist not to mislead viewers about products that could eliminate coronavirus.James’s office said in the Tuesday cease-and-...

Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to reinstate Obama-era LGBTQ protections in his equality plan released Thursday. "Hate and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people started long before [Presid...