Trump Continues to Misinform the Nation
President Trump is pitching a medicine for Covid-19 sufferers that science has not concluded is effective or safe. “Take it,” he said of the drug.
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Politics
Is It America First, or Blame the Rest of the World?
As the coronavirus spread around the world and began to overwhelm the United States, an assortment of Americans from the president on down summoned one notion as they framed the emerging cataclysm.
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GOP Governor Appoints Lawyer to Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds appointed a Des Moines lawyer to a vacancy on the Iowa Supreme Court Friday, her fourth appointment to the seven-member court in the past two years as a result of retirements and deaths of members of the state’s top appellate court.
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Wisconsin Judge Files Defamation Case Over Political TV Ads
A Wisconsin judge running for a seat on the state supreme court sued two conservative interest groups Friday, claiming the groups distributed TV ads with false claims about her past roles prosecuting and sentencing sex offenders in order to damage her campaign.
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Sanders Unveils Blank-Check Proposal for Pandemic Relief
Proposing a new Coronavirus relief package, Senator Bernie Sanders called Friday for a guarantee that nobody in the U.S. loses a paycheck; the suspension of payments for rent, mortgages and student loans; and for all Americans to receive an additional $2,000 a month.
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Making the Internet Connection While Campaigning During a Pandemic
Toilet paper is an unusual issue for the campaign trail, but candidates are rolling with the times. When Denver’s stay-at-home order interrupted her bid for the Colorado Senate, Democrat Maria Orms did what she does best: she organized her neighbors.
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Trump Taps Kentucky Judge to Fill Vacancy on DC Circuit
President Donald Trump on Friday announced plans to nominate a Kentucky federal judge and former law professor who clerked for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the D.C. Circuit.
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Stimulus Money for ‘Small Businesses’ Will Go to Big Ones
As the federal government prepares to launch a $349 billion loan program meant to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, critics have growing concerns that many mom-and-pop shops might get squeezed out.
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Despite Crisis, Trump and Pelosi Haven’t Spoken in 5 Months
Two of the most powerful people in Washington have not spoken in five months at a time when the nation is battling its worst health crisis in a century, one that has already killed more than 6,000 Americans and put 10 million out of work.
Read moreUN General Assembly in Rare Unanimity on Covid-19 Response
Of the two rival resolutions to hit the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, the first global response to the novel coronavirus pandemic unanimously opted for the one emphasizing global cooperation rather than the version with veiled swipes at the United States.
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Judge Nixes State Challenge to 2-for-1 Deregulation Push
The Trump administration’s two-for-one deregulation order survived a legal challenge Thursday by states that said it threatened a greenhouse gas rules and an education program for low-income children, to name a few.
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Judge Extends Absentee Voting in Wisconsin But Won’t Delay Primary
A Wisconsin federal judge on Thursday extended absentee voting deadlines for the state’s primary next Tuesday but found federal courts lack the power to delay the election altogether, despite making it clear he believed it should have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Climate-Related Disasters Boost Risk of Conflict in Vulnerable Countries
Droughts will linger longer and flood waters will reach further inland due to climate change in the coming years, and those disasters will also prove to exacerbate armed conflicts in developing countries across the globe, new research posits.
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Pelosi Creates New House Panel for Coronavirus Response
Further defining the architecture of the congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she plans to launch a new committee to oversee the distribution of aid.
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Democratic National Convention Pushed to August
After presidential candidate Joe Biden said it was hard to see how the Democratic National Committee could still hold its convention in July, the party announced it would bump the event to Aug. 17 — one week before the Republican Party’s convention.
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Trump Resists National Shutdown
President Trump is resisting calls to issue a national stay-at-home order to stem the spread of the new coronavirus despite his administration’s projections that as many as 240,000 Americans may be killed by the disease. One by one, though, states are pushing shutdown orders of their own.
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Democrats Push Infrastructure Plan as Next Phase of Covid-19 Response
House Democrats on Wednesday rolled out an estimated $770 billion plan to rebuild U.S. infrastructure, launching into phase four of the congressional response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read morePandemic Invades Body of European Union
The coronavirus pandemic is not just infecting hundreds of thousands of Europeans – it’s also attacking the pulmonary system of Europe’s politics and economies and badly sickening the European Union, a massive but fragile experiment in multinational democracy and borderless landscapes where people and goods move with few restraints.
Read moreVote Suppression
The League of Women Voters of Ohio sued Secretary of State Frank LaRose, claiming the state’s Ohio’s emergency actions to eliminate in-person voting violates the National Voter Registration Act.
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News Outlets Must Face Libel Claims From Former Mining Exec
A federal judge refused to dismiss defamation claims against more than a dozen news outlets that called a former coal CEO and Republican Senate candidate a felon, even though he was convicted of a lesser charge.
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