Nancy Pelosi

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday will vote on the largest economic stimulus package ever - a $3 trillion Democratic bill to help relieve the heavy economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic.The measure includes $500 billion in aid to state governments, another round of direct payments to individuals and…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California’s state university system, the largest in the United States, canceled classes on Tuesday for the fall semester because of the coronavirus, while Los Angeles County said its stay-at-home order was likely to be extended by three months. The announcements on the West Coast came after…

CHICAGO (AP) — Twitter announced Monday it will start alerting users when a tweet makes disputed or misleading claims about the coronavirus. The new rule is the latest in a wave of stricter policies that tech companies are rolling out to confront an outbreak of virus-related misinformation on their sites.…

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New York governor Andrew CuomoReutersNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that he's enlisting Bill Gates and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to help rebuild New York. Gates will help with education and virtual learning, and Schmidt will work on "reimagining" the state as it recovers from the coronavirus pandemic. The…

(WASHINGTON) — A White House memo to congressional committees says no member of the administration’s coronavirus task force can agree to testify on Capitol Hill unless the invitation is expressly approved by the president’s chief of staff. Democrats bristled at the rule as a crimp on their ability to gather…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was displeased when the Republican and Democratic leaders of Congress joined in a statement declining to use coronavirus testing machines from the White House for lawmakers. The statement affirmed what U.S. officials already know but Trump won't admit — the U.S. is still short…

Washington (AFP) - In a rare joint message, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders on Saturday rejected the Trump administration's offer to conduct rapid coronavirus screening on senators who will return to Washington next week, stating that the tests should be reserved for the public.Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Republican…

President Donald Trump said that fomer Vice President Joe Biden "should respond" to allegations made by a former Senate staffer, Tara Reade, who alleges that Biden pushed her against a wall and sexually assaulted her in 1993.Biden's campaign has denied the allegations and several of his Democratic allies like House…

Registered Nurse Fred Giertz holds a thank-you sign as representatives of local, county and federal agencies drive by the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan State and local governments in the United States could need close to $1 trillion in aid over several years to cope with the aftermath of…