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A group of GOP senators has begun to push for a coronavirus relief bill with a focus on infrastructure progress, even as others in Senate Republican leadership remain wary of an additional massive spending package. “I want to do infrastructure,” Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) told CNN on Wednesday. “I told Trump, this is the …

As the 2020 presidential race heats up, critics of the electoral college have once again started coming out of the woodwork. They argue that the electoral college allows a minority of voters to choose the president. They call it “undemocratic” and say it’s unfair.  But constitutional scholar Prof. Rob Natelson has spent his entire career …

A new Quinnipiac poll shows former vice president Joe Biden with rising support and favorability ratings against President Trump as the U.S. moves closer to the general elections. If the elections were held today, Biden would win 50 percent of the vote, one point up from the April version of the poll. By contrast, Trump …

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday defended the firing of the State Department’s inspector general and took aim at Democrats investigating him over the decision, singling out Senator Robert Menendez for particularly harsh criticism. President Trump fired Inspector General Steve Linick on Friday at Pompeo’s recommendation, saying in a letter to House Speaker Nancy …

Yet again, government intervention hurts those it is intended to help. ne of the more elementary observations about economics is that a nation’s prosperity is determined in part by the quantity and quality of labor and capital. These “factors of production” are combined to generate national income. I frequently grouse that punitive tax policies discourage capital. There’s less …

New York City police shut down a Hasidic Jewish school in Brooklyn after neighbors called to report it was violating shutdown orders by conducting Yeshiva classes. Officers found about 60 schoolchildren in the building when they arrived, and the school administrators were not issued summons after they complied with requests to send the students home, …

President Trump on Sunday hit back at criticism from former president Barack Obama over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “Look, he was an incompetent president,” Trump said of Obama. “That’s all I can say. Grossly incompetent.” In a speech to graduates of historically black colleges on Saturday, Obama leveled thinly veiled criticism at his …

Public service is supposed to be just that — a service. So why do so many members of Congress end up among the wealthiest Americans? That’s the question Mike from Wisconsin posed before a state legislative committee. “We know the federal government is out of control. Term limits are extremely important. They go in, and …

DeAndre Baker turned himself into the Miramar (Florida) Police Department on Saturday morning, his lawyer confirmed. Now the justice system will grind away to determine whether the Giants cornerback flushed his career away or will be exonerated. “Police reports are just that, reports of what was told to them or said to them,’’ Bradley Cohen, …

Democrats glimpsing a chance to oust Senator Lindsey Graham have launched a new super PAC focused on attacking the South Carolina Republican as he campaigns for reelection in the fall. The new PAC, “Lindsey Must Go,” says it has already garnered more than $1 million in commitments and aims to raise $4 million or more …