Articles by Focus Washington

President Donald Trump’s pardon of four Blackwater guards convicted in the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians was “disgraceful,” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., asserted Saturday, Fox News informed. “In 2007, four Blackwater contractors opened fire in a crowded […]

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would force a vote Monday on increasing payments to Americans in a coronavirus relief bill from $600 to $2,000 after President Trump urged lawmakers to do so, but Sen. Bernie Sanders, […]

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U.S. retail sales rose 3% during this year’s expanded holiday shopping season from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24, a report by Mastercard Inc said on Saturday, powered by a pandemic-driven shift toward online shopping, Reuters […]

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State health officials in New York are investigating a New York City health care provider regarding an alleged violation of protocol as part of the state’s rollout of the coronavirus vaccine, The Hill reports. ParCare Community Health […]

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President-elect Joe Biden is building a team of seasoned government professionals who can help him embark on an aggressive regulatory agenda once he takes office, The Hill reports. Biden will face a divided Senate when […]

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Millions of Americans are about to see their jobless benefits expire on Saturday as President Donald Trump has so far refused to sign into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, insisting that […]

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Ever since the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine began last spring, upbeat announcements were stalked by ominous polls: No matter how encouraging the news, growing numbers of people said they would refuse to get […]

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The deplorable state of relations between Washington and Moscow has gotten so bad that the United States cannot get visas for American technicians to come repair malfunctioning elevators and fire alarms at diplomatic missions, The […]

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First there were the gunshots that startled residents awake in a downtown Nashville community on Christmas morning. When people looked out their windows a little before dawn, they saw an old, white motor home parked […]

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Millions of Americans saw their jobless benefits expire on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump refused to sign into law a $2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, protesting that it did not do enough […]

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A federal judge said the Justice Department unlawfully rescheduled the execution of the only woman on federal death row, potentially setting up the Trump administration to schedule the execution after President-elect Joe Biden takes office, […]

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The RV that blew up in Nashville on Friday morning was playing a recording that warned it was going to explode, the city’s police chief said as quoted by New York Post. The recording said […]

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Members of the progressive “Squad” in the House on Thursday introduced their own bill to send $2,000 stimulus checks to Americans after President Trump this week demanded the $600 checks included in Congress’ stimulus deal be […]

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More than 2 million Georgians have already voted in the state’s twin Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections, where the Republican majority in the Senate is at stake, Fox News informed. The latest early voting numbers released Thursday morning […]

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Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign who has argued for many of its failed legal efforts to overturn the result of the presidential election, Wednesday evening panned calls for President Donald Trump to impose […]

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Veteran political operative Roger Stone is vowing to sue a Democratic lawmaker, alleging that he falsely accused him of covering for President Donald Trump in order to obtain clemency, Fox News informed. The lawmaker, U.S. […]

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The State Department notified Congress that it’s moving to issue a license for the sale of 7,500 precision-guided, air-to-ground munitions valued at $478 million to Saudi Arabia, according to two officials familiar with the issue, […]

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