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Live updates on key 2020 congressional races: Democrats seek to shore up House majority

Nov 3, 2020 | , , ,

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leaves her news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

According to recent reports, President Trump believes that Republicans can retake a majority in the House of Representatives in 2020. He might be the only one. Political experts largely believe that the Democrats are overwhelming favorites to retain control of the House, extending Nancy Pelosi’s speakership for one more term — which she has suggested will be her last....

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Both the GOP and the Democrats want to break up Big Tech. Could it really happen?

Oct 20, 2020 | , ,

Rep Jim Jordan, D-OH, speaks during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on Online Platforms and Market Power in the Rayburn House office Building, July 29, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images

We live in an era of unprecedented political polarization, to the point where it seems unimaginable that liberals and conservatives could unite around any issue....

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CDC study finds kids of all ages may play key role in virus transmission amid push to reopen schools

Aug 4, 2020 | ,

Coronavirus | Kids at camp on a sports team Getty Images/Salon

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have called for the nation’s public schools to re-open this fall, but a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that children of all ages are susceptible to coronavirus infection — and can efficiently transmit the virus to others....

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As unemployment hits 36 million, congressional GOP rejects a second round of stimulus checks

May 20, 2020 | , ,

Coronavirus economic assistance checks that were sent to citizens across the country Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Congressional Republicans are attempting to stop the passage of another relief package for Americans economically suffering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as an estimated 36 million Americans have lost their jobs.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.,...

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Kellyanne Conway criticizes anti-Trump group co-founded by husband: “Never achieved what I achieved”

May 8, 2020 | ,

Donald Trump and Kellyanne Conway AP Photo/Salon

Kellyanne Conway, who serves as a White House counselor to the president, denounced the members of a conservative anti-Trump group co-founded by her husband as failures during a Thursday appearance on Fox News.

Conway told Fox News host Harris Faulkner that the group of strategists and consultants who run the Lincoln Project “never achieved what I achieved, which is success as a presidential campaign manager....

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany once denounced Trump’s remarks as racist and “hateful”

May 8, 2020 | ,

President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany AP Photo/Evan Vucci/Alex Brandon

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany formerly denounced President Donald Trump for being “a Republican in name only” who made “racist” and “hateful” comments about minorities during the early stages of his 2016 presidential campaign.

McEnany spoke out when Trump used his June 2015 campaign announcement address to accuse Mexico of sending “rapists” who bring drugs and crime along with them into the U.S. ...

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Kelly Loeffler sold shares in travel company before Trump announced ban on flights to Europe: report

Apr 3, 2020 | ,

U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler Paras Griffin/Getty Images

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., sold more than $46,000 of stock in an online travel company shortly before President Donald Trump announced a ban on flights to Europe over the coronavirus pandemic.

Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher, an executive at the firm which owns the New York Stock Exchange, purchased shares in Booking Holdings on March 6, according to Bloomberg....

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Trump campaign accuses Sessions of trying to trick voters into believing that president supports him

Apr 3, 2020 | , ,

Jess Sessions and Donald Trump AP Photo/Salon

Donald Trump’s re-election campaign sent a letter to Jeff Sessions Tuesday accusing him of attempting to “confuse” the president’s supporters into believing that he supports his former attorney general’s Senate campaign in Alabama.

“The Trump campaign has learned that your U.S. Senate campaign is circulating mailers like the one I have enclosed, in which you misleadingly promote your connections to and ‘support’ of President Trump,” Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Trump’s campaign, wrote in the letter obtained by The New York Times....

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Ethics group calls for GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler to be investigated after more stock sales revealed

Apr 2, 2020 | ,

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., speaks on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. Senate Television via AP

An ethics watchdog called for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., to be investigated by “any federal law enforcement agencies that have jurisdiction over insider trading” after a new report revealed the lawmaker unloaded millions of dollars in stocks from industries hit hard by the economic fallout over the coronavirus pandemic as she publicly downplayed the extent of the outbreak. ...

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Department of Justice opens inquiry into stock trades by Republican Sen. Richard Burr: report

Mar 30, 2020 | ,

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, Sen. Richard Burr AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The Department of Justice has begun to investigate controversial stock trades by members of the Senate after receiving non-public briefings about the impending coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

CNN reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is coordinating its probe the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has reached out to at least one member of Congress: Sen....

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