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The Senate in the early hours of Saturday voted to reduce the weekly unemployment benefit from $400 to $300 per week for recipients through the end of August in the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. The amendment from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was agreed to by a vote of 50-49 after hours of negotiations among Democrats. […]

Senate Democrats late Friday reached a compromise agreement among themselves on tax breaks and unemployment benefits in the $1.9 trillion bill, enabling them to move forward with the proposal. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced in a statement: “We have reached a compromise that enables the economy to rebound quickly while also protecting those receiving unemployment benefits

Two city council members in New Jersey were indicted on fraud charges related to mail-in voting in the city’s last election. Similarly, in Mississippi, a judge has just thrown out the results of a local election. He ordered them to now hold a redo election. Also in Mississippi, lawmakers have just passed a bill that

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) left Washington on Friday to his home state for a family funeral just as the Senate headed into an extended session during which Republicans could use his vote to amend the gargantuan $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill. “Due to the recent passing of his father-in-law, Senator Sullivan had to depart on

“Even if we are removed from these platforms, we still have to be talked about on these platforms. … The stories have to be strong enough [to] force them to talk about it,” says James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. Project Veritas was recently permanently suspended by Twitter. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),

New York lawmakers voted on Friday to approve a bill to strip Cuomo of special temporary pandemic powers granted to him during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Democrat-majority Senate voted to repeal temporary powers that were granted to Cuomo in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic. The bill, S. 5357, would revoke Cuomo’s ability

Takeaway enthusiasts will be familiar with disposable wooden chopsticks; many may even have cutlery drawers replete with the handy wooden utensils in their neat paper packets. But what is that little wooden tab at the end of the chopsticks, keeping them together, really for? Many diners make a habit of breaking chopsticks apart, destroying the tab

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Most counties in the San Francisco Bay Area resumed indoor dining starting March 3 after their virus numbers improved. Restaurants in San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Napa, and Marin counties are now allowed to seat customers inside at 25 percent capacity or 100 people, whichever is fewer. They have transitioned to the

WASHINGTON—The United States on March 5, called China’s moves to change the Hong Kong electoral system a direct attack on its autonomy and democratic processes and said Washington was working at “galvanizing collective action” against Chinese rights abuses. Earlier on Friday, Beijing proposed legislation that would tighten its increasingly authoritarian grip on Hong Kong by

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday said he supports a new bill that aims to combat the censorship of conservative voices by social media companies. Speaking at a press conference, Abbott warned about a “dangerous movement” across the United States to silence conservative ideas and religious beliefs. He blamed social media platforms such as Facebook,