One of Trump’s new favorite congressmen, Florida Rep Michael Waltz, has raised the option of moving the Republican National Convention to Jacksonville, Florida, as Trump whined about North Carolina’s social distancing order making a traditional MORE
The French government cancelled a decree allowing doctors to use hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for severe cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. France is the first to make the move after the WHO said on Monday MORE
The same sheriff who was a keynote speaker at a Grand Rapids, Michigan, rally against Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home COVID-19 order is, himself, working from home over fear of the virus. Barry County Sheriff Dar MORE
North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum pled with his constituents to show an example of empathy instead of division on the topic of wearing masks. Suggesting the upheaval was a needless “culture war,” Burgum became emotional MORE
So another Friday is here already, and not only is it a Friday, it’s a holiday Friday. Isn’t it great to remember the relief of relishing a long weekend? After several weeks of hunkering in MORE
The Senate confirmed the Texas U.S. Representative John Ratcliffe as Trump’s Director of Intelligence on Thursday in a 49-44 party line vote. Even Senate Democrats were eager to see Ratcliffe succeed acting Intelligence Director Richard MORE
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that nearly half of all accounts on Twitter that are tweeting about the coronavirus are likely bots. Of over 200 million tweets analyzed, researchers found that about 45% MORE
On the first day of a legislative session in a makeshift venue to allow for social distancing, a GOP lawmaker refused to wear a mask. The assembly’s first order of business was to vote that MORE
A party line vote in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a subpoena to Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic public-relations firm that did consulting work for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company whose MORE
Approximately 10,000 people have been asked to evacuate their homes in Midland, Michigan, after two dams were breached. Midland is a city of about 42,000 citizens, approximately 140 miles north of Detroit. Several tributaries converge MORE
The protester from Michigan, who showed up with an axe and a doll with a noose around its neck isn’t a virus denier. Instead his problem is with the restrictions on public gatherings and the MORE
Fifteen state Republican attorneys general told a federal judge on Monday that they support the Trump administration’s request to drop charges on Michael Flynn, and warned the judge of overstepping his authority. The Republican AG’s MORE
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she didn’t think it was a good idea for Trump to take hydroxychloroquine because of his age and his weight group, which she characterized as “morbidly obese.” Trump is 73, MORE
Fox News host Neil Cavuto earned the ire of Trump on Monday night after telling viewers that hydroxychloroquine can kill you. By evening, Trump had retweeted half a dozen attacks on Cavuto and Fox News MORE
Slain Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery was rapping in his car alone when officers harassed him for being in a park known for drug activity in 2017. Arbery refused to allow an officer to search his MORE
The Saudi Air Force trainee who carried out a deadly attack on a military base in Pensacola, Fla., was working with al Qaeda operatives as far back as 2015, the FBI announced on Monday. The MORE
Doug Sosnik, who was the White House political director during President Clinton’s successful re-election race, writes for Axios that during President Trump’s first term, the country completed a political realignment that began in 1992. Sosnik says the electoral MORE
Former New York mayor, presidential candidate, and billionaire Mike Bloomberg is looking to spend a lot of money in support of Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, as CNBC reported on Friday. The former New MORE
It’s been a while since I’ve sat at an actual bar or roundtable for a group cocktail. Probably longer than I’m willing to admit, and definitely longer than a national lockdown has kept most of MORE
The CDC released new watered down guidelines on Thursday for businesses and organizations to reopen safely, after the White House rejected at least two earlier versions with more details. For instance, a 63-page unpublished draft MORE
Barack Obama spoke out on Wednesday after Mitch McConnell suggested he was “classless” and “should have kept his mouth shut.” The former president urged a better government response to the pandemic, a response that would MORE
Tucker Carlson called Anthony Fauci the “chief buffoon” in a meltdown rant after the epidemiologist warned about a premature opening of the country before a Senate Health Committee on Tuesday. Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham MORE
Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders have named leaders and members of a joint unity task force to promote unity in the Democratic Party ahead of the November election. The action follows through on Sanders’ pledge MORE
Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been released from federal prison and is serving his sentence in home confinement. One of Manafort’s attorneys said the 71-year-old was released Wednesday morning due to concerns over the MORE
While another protest is planned for Thursday at the Michigan Capitol, Governor Gretchen Whitmer reacted on Monday to the threats of violence directed at herself and others by urging lawmakers to do what they can MORE