This is not the way Republicans wanted to begin the year. Missouri’s Roy Blunt on Monday became the fifth Republican senator to announce he will not seek reelection, a retirement wave that portends an ugly campaign season next year and gives Democrats fresh hope in preserving their razor-thin Senate majority. […]
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Jaime Jaquez Jr. of the UCLA Bruins celebrates with the crowd after defeating the Arizona Wildcats at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California on February 29, 2020. Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images A year ago, public-health officials didn’t fully understand how the coronavirus spreads. Masks weren’t yet recommended. Photos from early March […]
LOS ANGELES — There were royal victims and villains in Harry and Meghan’s tell-all — or tell enough — interview with Oprah Winfrey. But there was only one immediate and clear winner: the American media queen. While the couple drew both strong support and rebukes for detailing why they fled […]
Joe Biden hailed “one more giant step forward on delivering on that promise that help is on the way”, after Democrats took a critical step towards a first major legislative victory since assuming control of Congress and the White House, with a party-line vote in the Senate to approve a […]
Democratic leaders ultimately secured Manchin’s support on a last-minute deal to clear the way for the legislation after Biden himself intervened. But activity in the Senate first ground to a halt for hours amid a holdup over unemployment benefits, with Manchin being pulled in two directions — by Republicans who […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ attempt to add a $15 per hour minimum wage to the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill failed as eight Democrats voted against his effort. It was a long shot bid by Sanders to get the wage hike into the legislation after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it could […]
The long series of amendment votes, known as a vote-a-rama, is a Senate tradition that the minority party uses to put members of the majority on the record on controversial issues in an effort to make changes to a bill that they oppose. The amendments can alter the parameters of […]
But Republicans charge the measure is laden with big-ticket liberal spending that has nothing to do with the crisis and quarrel with substantial aid payments to states and cities that they argue are hurting less than expected owing to better-than-projected tax revenues. The bill’s vital symbolic importance to a new […]