SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Threats to the Homeland", on Capitol Hill in Washington. - Reuters/POOL
WASHINGTON, D.C. - White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Friday denigrated FBI Director Christopher Wray's ability to detect voter fraud in the U.S. election and suggested that if he "drill down" more he would...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser H.R. McMaster lamented Thursday the President's refusal to commit to providing a peaceful post-election transition of power on Thursday and dismissed the notion of potential military involvement.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster added to a chorus of high-level officials grappling with the comments while promising a smooth transfer of authority...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. - Reuters/POOL
NEW YORK - Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Harley Davidson has decided to shut down its manufacturing and sales operations in India as part of its 'The Rewire' programme. The company will lay off its 70 employees in the country and close its manufacturing plant in Bawal, Haryana.
Last month, the US-based motorcycle maker had decided to focus on its top 50 markets across the world...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump pay respects as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at the Supreme Court building on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, in Washington. Ginsburg, 87, died of cancer on Sept. 18. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The night after President Trump won the 2016 election, he was at home in Trump Tower...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, who represents Breonna Taylor’s family, blasted the Kentucky grand jury that decided not to charge any officers in her killing, calling it a “sham proceeding that did nothing to give Breonna Taylor a voice."
Crump, a member of the family’s legal team, responded on NBC's "TODAY" on Thursday to the grand jury's delivering...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Image: US Supreme Court. - Patrick Semansky
Four years ago, when Senate Republicans launched an unprecedented, 10-month blockade against a sitting president's Supreme Court nominee, GOP senators insisted they were merely trying to give voters a voice in the process. "Let voters decide," Republicans declared, arguing that the winner of the next presidential campaign -- six months away...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Images DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 26: Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally to support Michigan democratic candidates at Detroit Cass Tech High School on October 26, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. Obama, and former Attorney General Eric Holder, who was also at the rally, are among approximately a dozen democrats who were targeted by mail bombs...
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Now that Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has announced President Trump should get to nominate another Supreme Court justice, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to have the votes to swiftly confirm whomever Trump appoints to fill the slot left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.
Democrats have few procedural countermeasures. Short of long shots such as winning...
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Medicare Part B, which generally covers approved vaccines deemed necessary, does not extend that coverage to those approved under emergency-use authorization, which is expected for an early Covid-19 vaccine.
It's uncertain when a legislative fix could come or if there are regulatory maneuvers that could provide a work-around instead.
A statement from the Centers for Medicare...
