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Seth Meyers Unloads on Trump for Mocking Mitt Romneys Coronavirus Quarantine

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 NewsEditorCongress, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald J. Trump, Late Night, Mitt Romney, pandemic, Quarantine, Seth Meyers

It seemed pretty weird when Seth Meyersthe novel coronavirus pandemic to viewers from an empty hallway in his house. It may be weird to do this from a hallway, the Late Night host said. But at least Im not doing it from a public beach! Meyers caught his audience up on nearly every aspect of the crisis that he has missed over the past week, including the revelation that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had The Last Laugh podcast. Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/seth-meyers-unloads-on-trump-for-mocking-mitt-romneys-coronavirus-quarantine

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Congress Wanted Answers From Trump on Coronavirus. He Blew Them Off.

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 NewsEditorCenters for Disease Control, Congress, coronavirus, Department of Health and Human Services, Donald J. Trump

The morning of Feb. 12, members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee filed into their Capitol Hill committee chambers for a scheduled hearing about the rapidly growing outbreak of the novel coronavirus. On that day, the number of total coronavirus cases in the world had crossed 60,000 and more than 1,000 were dead from the disease, nearly all in mainland China. But there were 14 cases in the United States, and top officials from the Centers for Disease Control were warning the coronavirus could gain a foothold. Against that backdrop,…

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TRACED Act signed into law, putting robocallers on notice

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 NewsEditorajit pai, chairman, Chuck Schumer, communication, Congress, department of justice, Federal Communications Commission, Government, jessica rosenworcel, neologisms, president, robocall, robocalls, telemarketing

The Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, a bipartisan bit of legislation that should make life harder for the villains behind robocalls, was signed into law today by the president. It’s still possible to get things done in D.C. after all! We’ve covered the TRACED Act several times previously, as robocalls are, in addition to being horribly annoying, a uniquely annoying high-tech threat. Using clever targeting and spoofing technology, scammers are placing millions of calls that at best irritate and at worst take advantage of the vulnerable. The new law won’t end that…

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Trump’s National Security Impeachment Defense Is a Red Herring

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 NewsEditorCongress, Donald Trump, national security, Richard Nixon

As the US Senate launches the first impeachment trial of a US president in the 21st century—and only the third in the history of the country—Donald Trump’s defense team has offered new hints about how they plan to block the Democrats’ case that the president abused the power of his office. They plan to argue that “national security” prevents a full airing of the evidence. The telltale phrase appears all over the president’s defense and the government’s response to the impeachment charges. As Jonathan Swan and Alayna Treene of Axios…

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Congress Finally Agrees to Cover Sonic Attack Victims Medical Bills

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 NewsEditorChina, Congress, Cuba

Over 40 U.S. government officials and family members who suffered mysterious brain injuries during their service overseas will finally receive guaranteed, long-term medical care thanks to a deal included in Congress year-end spending bill. In 2018, U.S. officials serving at embassies in Cuba and China began to report strange sensations of sound and pressure, causing symptoms consistent with traumatic brain injury. Who or what caused the sickness remains unconfirmed, despite efforts from the CIA, FBI, and other branches of the Trump administration to figure it out. The governments of those…