Day: July 17, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services violated federal contracting rules when its leaders misused communications consultants to burnish the image of the agency and its chief, Seema Verma, according to the Department of Health and Human Services’s inspector general. In a 70-page review of three contracts that […]

Mary Trump’s new book about Donald Trump on display at a book store on July 14 in Brooklyn, N.Y | Stephanie Keith/Getty Images By MATTHEW CHOI 07/17/2020 07:17 PM EDT Updated: 07/17/2020 09:59 PM EDT President Donald Trump on Friday broke his silence on a tell-all book that dives into […]

President Trump traveled on Wednesday to the new political battleground of Georgia to blast away at one of the nation’s cornerstone conservation laws, vowing to speed construction projects by limiting legally mandated environmental reviews of highways, pipelines and power plants. One day earlier, his Democratic presidential rival, Joseph R. Biden […]

Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP By ASSOCIATED PRESS 07/17/2020 06:38 PM EDT CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday that Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan “must resign” if allegations of corruption are true against the fellow Democrat long considered the state’s most powerful lawmaker. Madigan, who also serves […]

In the months after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer, the movement for racial justice in this country has taken up most of the nation’s headspace. But for those that see this movement as a continuation or offshoot of the Civil Rights Movement of […]

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called on Congress on Friday to work with the Trump administration to pass additional stimulus legislation by the end of the month as the coronavirus pandemic continued to inject uncertainty into how quickly the economy would recover. The request comes as the virus continues […]

Mayor Jorge Elorza of Providence signed an order on Wednesday to start a “reparations process” for black and indigenous people. Providence Mayor: “A Committment That We’re Making To A Process” The resolution put forward by the Providence Mayor provides for a “reparations process” in the community that would start with […]

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, without once mentioning the word “Confederate,” announced a policy on Friday that essentially banned displays of the Confederate flag on military installations around the world. In a carefully worded memo that Defense Department officials said they hoped would avoid igniting another defense of the flag from […]

It wasn’t so long ago that Ohio was looking like a lost cause for Democrats, after Donald J. Trump scored a convincing victory there and humiliated the party that had twice carried the state under Barack Obama. Now, unexpectedly, Ohio looms as a tantalizing opportunity for Joseph R. Biden Jr. […]