(Headline USA) Michigan's health chief said Tuesday he has “broad” legal authority to enforce draconian lockdown demands under the state's emergency regulations, despite a recent court ruling that struck down the Nazi-era law cited by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Robert Gordon, director of the state Department of Health and Human Services,...
(Headline USA) The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to sharply limit visas for skilled workers from overseas, a move officials said was a priority amid job losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Department of Homeland Security and Department of Labor officials said new rules for what's known as the H1-B...
(Headline USA) A U.S. judge said the IRS can't keep withholding coronavirus relief payments from incarcerated people, potentially clearing the way for at least 80,000 checks totaling more than $100 million to be sent to people behind bars across the United States.
The ruling late last month from U.S. District Judge...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump is said to be making progress in his recovery from COVID-19, and tweeted his eagerness to return to the campaign trail.
As Trump convalesced out of sight in the White House on Tuesday, the administration defended the protections it has put in place to protect the staff...
(Headline USA) Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday she was “shocked” to see President Donald Trump discharged from the hospital so soon, and said Trump set a poor example by appearing at the White House without a mask.
“When I saw him on the balcony of the White House, taking off...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has instructed aides to stop negotiating on another round of COVID-19 relief until after the election.
Trump tweeted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “not negotiating in good faith" and said he's asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to direct all his...
(Headline USA) Still sickened by COVID-19, President Donald Trump on Tuesday played down the disease that hospitalized him for three days.
He compared it anew to the seasonal flu, and was promptly censored by Twitter:
The president also signaled he plans to return soon to the campaign trail.
Anxious to project strength just four...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House after leaving the military hospital where he received care for COVID-19, declaring that despite his illness the nation should not fear the virus.
Landing Monday night at the White House on Marine One, Trump climbed the South Portico...
(Headline USA) Affected by COVID-19 infections, the Republican-led Senate refuses to delay confirmation of President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court.
Congress has been holding committee hearings remotely and conducting business by Zoom already, so sick senators can also vote for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, and Democrats appear powerless to...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court, already poised to turn more to the right, opened its new term Monday with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court’s embrace of same-sex marriage.
The justices returned from their summer break on a somber note, following the death of...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a requirement that South Carolina residents voting by mail in November’s election get a witness to sign their ballots.
Democrats had sought to have the requirement put on hold, blaming the coronavirus, but Republicans had defended it as deterring fraud.
While the high court...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Monday he's leaving the military hospital where he has been treated for COVID-19 and will continue his recovery at the White House.
He said he's feeling good and the nation should not be afraid of the virus.
Trump's expected return comes as the scale of the...