Month: September 2020

The Trump campaign hit back on Sunday on the Biden camp’s questioning of the economic recovery amid the coronavirus pandemic – slamming Biden’s handling of the economy during his time as vice president and trying to tie the Democratic […]

LA Mayor Garcetti Mocked over Tweet Urging Residents to Conserve Energy

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, the city’s Democrat widely seen too have national ambitions, was roundly mocked on Twitter late Sunday after he urged residents to turn off major appliances to conserve energy during a historic heatwave, Fox […]

IEA Sees Oil Market Stuck Between No Major Slowdown but Stalled Recovery

The global economy is likely not headed for any major slowdown due to COVID-19 but piled-up storage and uncertainty over China’s oil demand cloud oil markets’ recovery, an official with International Energy Agency (IEA) said, […]

Top Democrat Accuses U.S. Attorney General of Lying About China Election Threat

The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Sunday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of lying when he said China posed a bigger threat to November’s U.S. election than Russia, Reuters […]

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Coronavirus Rising in 22 U.S. States

Coronavirus cases are rising in 22 of the 50 U.S. states, according to a Reuters analysis, a worrisome trend on a Labor Day holiday weekend traditionally filled with family gatherings and parties to mark the […]

California Wildfires Prompt Evacuations

More than 200 people were airlifted to safety overnight after a fast-moving wildfire cut off the only road out of the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreational site in California’s Sierra National Forest, Reuters reported. […]

Fed’s Strategy Shift to Bind Big Central Banks From Frankfurt to Tokyo

The U.S. Federal Reserve’s landmark shift to a more tolerant stance on inflation will be a drag on the dollar for years and will raise hard questions about the role of central banking, challenging policymakers […]

Jacob Blake Speaks Out As Protests Rock U.S. Cities on Holiday Weekend

Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin last month, spoke out for the first time from his hospital bed as dueling demonstrations over racial […]

Portland Police Use Tear Gas, Protesters Throw Fire Bombs

Protesters in Portland threw rocks and fire bombs at police who in turn used tear gas on Saturday night and at least one person was injured, on the 100th day of demonstrations in the Oregon […]

Michael Cohen Reveals ‘Disparaging Remarks’ Trump Made about Black Leaders, Voters

Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, is alleging in a new book that Trump made disparaging remarks about Black world leaders including former South African President Nelson Mandela, as well as about […]

Kamala Harris Tells DACA Recipients: ‘We Still Have Your Back’

Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris has assured hundreds of thousands of young undocumented migrants in the U.S. that a future Joe Biden administration will allow them to stay in the country, on the third […]

Judge Orders Trump Admin Stop ‘Winding Down’ Census Collection, Processing Efforts

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop efforts to wind down the collection of data and processing of timelines for the 2020 Census, The Hill reported. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh issued a […]

Mystery Packages Force Amazon to End Foreign Sales of Seeds in U.S.

Amazon is banning foreign sales of seeds in the U.S. after thousands of Americans reported receiving unsolicited packages of seeds postmarked from China, the Wall Street Journal first reported. “Moving forward, we are only […]

After Report That Trump Disparaged War Dead, Democrats See Chance to Win Over Military Voters

Long before The Atlantic published an article on Thursday night depicting President Trump disparaging America’s war dead, liberal veterans groups had been feverishly working in battleground states to appeal to veterans and military family members, […]

Fauci Warns These 7 States are at Risk for COVID-19 Surge over Labor Day Weekend

Residents of seven Midwest states need to be on high alert for catching COVID-19 over Labor Day weekend, Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned as quoted by New York Post. “There are several states that are at […]

White House Directs Federal Agencies to Cancel Race-Related Training Sessions it Calls ‘Un-American Propaganda’

President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies’ racial sensitivity trainings, casting some of them as “divisive” and “un-American,” according to a memo by the White House Office of Management and Budget, according to The […]

Mississippi AG Drops Charges Against Black Man Tried 6 Times in Same Murder Case

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch on Friday dropped the charges against Curtis Flowers, a black man tried six times for the same 1996 quadruple murder — and always by the same white prosecutor, New York […]

Trump Plays Defense with the Military Weeks before Election

President Donald Trump is once again fending off a fresh set of attacks from the military, this time as he’s forced to explain away allegations that he disparaged fallen and wounded service members, just before […]

China’s Yuan Could Become the World’s Third Largest Reserve Currency in 10 Years, Morgan Stanley Predicts

Increased foreign investment into Chinese markets could boost the usage of the yuan, pushing it to become the third largest reserve currency in the world — behind only the U.S. dollar and the euro, Morgan […]

U.S. Justice Department’s Google Lawsuit Expected in Weeks Ahead

The Justice Department, which has been conducting an antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc’s Google, plans to bring a lawsuit against Google as soon as this month, according to two sources familiar with the probe, who […]

Biden Speaks With Jacob Blake, Hears From Kenosha Residents

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden put himself squarely in the middle of U.S. tumult over racial injustice and police brutality on Thursday, visiting strife-torn Kenosha, Wisconsin, and speaking by phone with the Black man shot […]

U.S. Job Growth Seen Slowing in August

U.S. job growth likely slowed further in August as financial assistance from the government ran out, threatening the economy’s recovery from the COVID-19 recession, Reuters informed. The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday […]

Facebook Election Plan Patches Some Holes, Creates Others

Facebook’s final policy changes in the lead-up to U.S. elections in November are unlikely to stem a flood of disinformation around the vote, which could suppress turnout and sow confusion about results, election experts said […]

Ann Romney and Michelle Obama Team Up to Encourage Voting

Ann Romney and Michelle Obama are teaming up to promote voting this fall on television, Fox News informed. The former first lady and Romney, whose husband lost to then Sen.-Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential race, will appear […]

Biden Makes Awkward Quip During Kenosha Appearance

Former Vice President Joe Biden used an unfortunate choice of words Thursday while visiting Kenosha, Wis. in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Fox News informed. Biden’s speech aimed at addressing racial unrest veered into talking […]

Biden-Trump Race Tightening in the Biggest Battleground: Poll

A new poll in the biggest of the general election battleground states shows a tightening race but with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden with a slight edge over President Donald Trump, Fox News informed. Two months to the day until Election […]

Donald Trump Jr.: Gov. Cuomo’s ‘Tough Guy Shtick’ Will Make him ‘Darling’ with the Media

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent attack on President Trump’s coronavirus response will be attractive to the media, despite his own botched job on handling the pandemic, Donald Trump Jr. told “The Story with Martha MacCallum,” Fox News […]

Judge Bars Kanye West from Appearing on Arizona’s Ballot

A judge has barred Kanye West from appearing on the Nov. 3 ballot in Arizona, concluding that a voter who challenged his candidacy had shown he would probably prevail and had established the possibility of an irreparable harm if the […]

September 3, 2020 John Ganjei

LUNCHTIME POLITICS: Crime Big Issue – Arizona, North Carolina Senate – Biden Keeps Lead

Your Daily Polling Update for Thursday, September 3, 2020 TRUMP JOB APPROVAL: AVERAGE 44%Down 1 from yesterday RON’S COMMENT: Is Trump’s bounce fading? Yesterday, he was up to 46%. Now, with a slew of new […]

September 3, 2020 Focus Washington

Sen. Ron Johnson Describes ‘Formula’ to ‘Stop the Rioting’ as ‘Decisive Action’ and ‘Leadership Resolve’

The presence of National Guard troops and federal agents in Kenosha, Wis. were a decisive factor in the diminution of rioting that followed the shooting of Jacob Blake, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Radio’s “Guy […]