Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell revealed the Republican coronavirus relief plan Monday. Here’s what we know about the bill, as Republican leaders gradually release the details: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said he would establish federal unemployment insurance improved to 70% of a worker’s previous wages, …
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New Orleans officials closed several Willie’s Chicken Shack locations for violating coronavirus rules over the weekend in what could be the most significant action yet against a business that ignores city restrictions. At least some locations in the fried chicken and daiquiri chain of stores, which has eight storefronts in …
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Ridge, a Republican who was the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said the first words of the department’s vision statement that he helped establish are “preserve our liberties.” “When they appear to be quasi-military rather than law enforcement, I think it’s like putting a little gasoline on …
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“We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact in the development of our country because otherwise we cannot understand our country. As the founding fathers said, it was the necessary evil on which the union was built, but the The union was built in a …
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Prepared testimony by DC National Guard Commander Adam D. DeMarco, who will appear before a hearing on Tuesday, challenges Attorney General William Barr’s version of the dispersal. “Protesters were behaving peacefully, exercising their First Amendment rights,” DeMarco is expected to say, adding that he was surprised that the clean-up operation …
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