President Donald Trump indicated he would not be able to sign the long-delayed coronavirus relief package after U.S. government debt prices were low on Wednesday. Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note reached 0.921%, while yields on 30-year Treasury bonds were slightly higher at 1.655%. Bond yields turn to low …
Read More »Israel’s parliament failed to contest the election
Israel will face its fourth soon-to-be election in two years after missing Tuesday’s parliamentary deadline to pass the budget. The snap election in March marks a sign of recent developments in Israel’s two-year-long saga that has drawn voters to vote three times as prime minister. Benjamin NetanyahuBenjamin (BB) Netanyahu He …
Read More »Trump forgives 15, makes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans, a 2016 campaign official and former government contractor caught in a Russian investigation and convicted in the 2007 genocide in Baghdad. Trump’s actions in his final week in office show a president who …
Read More »Trump has pardoned 15 people, including those convicted in the Mueller investigation
President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned 15 people, including two men convicted as part of an investigation by Special Adviser Robert Mueller and four former Blackwater USA guards convicted of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. Others who have been pardoned include two former Republican congressmen who confessed …
Read More »Trump has called for a major stimulus investigation into the Covid relief bill
US President Donald Trump attends a medal ceremony at the Oval Val Fis at the White House in Washington on December 3, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters In a stunning tweet on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump called the 900 900 billion Covid Relief Bill passed by Congress “inappropriate” and …
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