Direct Payments: For individuals the package provides direct payments to lower- and middle-income Americans of $1,200 for each adult, as well as $500 for each child. Unemployment insurance would be extended to four months, the benefits would be bolstered MORE
The deadline for Americans to file their taxes will shift from April 15 to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Twitter Friday. The move is the latest in a series of highly unusual, MORE
In a 90-8 vote, the Senate finally passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The bill now goes to Trump who is expected to sign it into law. The Act will cover: Free coronavirus testing, MORE
The activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning attempted suicide on Wednesday, her legal team said in a news release. The statement came only a few days before Manning was scheduled to appear at a court hearing MORE
The NBA has suspended its season due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The announcement came after a confusing mid-game suspension of play between the Utah Jazz and Oklahoma City Thunder. The NBA announced a player tested positive MORE
The Dow plummeted 1,800 points at the open, tripping circuit breakers that halted trading at the New York Stocks Exchange. The growing coronavirus pandemic is also making investors anxious. There are now over 100,000 cases and over 3,000 MORE
The White House overruled health officials who wanted to recommend that elderly and physically fragile Americans be advised not to fly on commercial airlines because of the new coronavirus, a federal official told The Associated MORE
After disappointing finishes in Super Tuesday’s primaries, Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the Democratic race for president. The Massachusetts senator, who centered her bid on a promise to wipe out corruption in Washington, is MORE
Sen. Amy Klobuchar will end her presidential bid on Monday and endorse Joe Biden, a campaign aide tells CNN. The Klobuchar campaign confirmed that the senator is flying to Dallas to join the former vice president at his MORE
Pete Buttigieg, the former small-city Indiana mayor and first openly gay major presidential candidate, has decided to quit the Democratic race, a person briefed on Mr. Buttigieg’s plans said on Sunday, following a crushing loss MORE
A person diagnosed with coronavirus in King County in Washington state has died, according to health officials on Saturday. In a statement released Saturday, the Washington State Department of Health and Seattle and King County MORE
The United States and the Taliban have signed a peace agreement aimed at ending the 18-year war in Afghanistan, America’s longest. The signing could help President Donald Trump fulfill a key campaign promise to extract MORE
Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services sent more than a dozen workers to receive the first Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, without proper training for infection control or MORE
Police are responding to a ‘critical incident’ at the MillerCoors headquarters in Milwaukee. KSNT’s sister station WITI said the incident was an active shooter situation and said sources told them six to seven people were down. One MORE
Bernie Sanders warned Russia Friday to “stay out of U.S. elections” as he confirmed that American intelligence officials had briefed him on Russian efforts to help his presidential campaign. “Let’s be clear, the Russians want MORE
NBC: Mike Bloomberg said Friday he’d release three women from nondisclosure agreements who’d complained about inappropriate comments they said he had made, two days after he was pressed to do so by Elizabeth Warren during MORE
U.S. troops, Afghan forces and the Taliban will begin a seven-day partial truce Friday, a senior Department of State official confirmed, which if successful would lead to the signing of a long-awaited, broader U.S.-Taliban agreement that could MORE
According to The New York Times: Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, MORE
Roger Stone, Trump’s former associate, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for lying to and obstructing Congress and witness tampering in the Russia investigation. She also fined Stone $20,000. The Guardian: President Donald MORE
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is under fire after a whistleblower complaint revealed that the department had given over $1 million in anti-human trafficking grants to two groups, Hookers for Jesus and the Lincoln Tubman MORE
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recommended on Monday that former Trump aide Roger Stone serve a prison sentence of between 7 and 9 years for lying to Congress and witness tampering. In a court filing to a MORE
Jakraphanth Thomma, a junior officer, killed his commanding officer before stealing weapons from a military camp on Saturday afternoon, a defence spokesperson told BBC Thai. The suspect, whose motives remain unclear, then drove to a MORE
After removing LTC Alex Vindman from his post and sending him back to the Pentagon, Trump continued his retaliation tour and dismissed US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland. Sondland said in a statement MORE
Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council, was pushed out of his role Friday months earlier than expected, according to a statement from his attorney. Vindman was not slated MORE
“What the president did was wrong. -Joe Manchin Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), a moderate who is friendly with the White House, on Monday asked his colleagues to consider censuring President Trump as it concludes MORE