President Donald Trump raised staggering amounts after losing the White House. Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson kept donating in the election’s waning days, and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham set a new fundraising high water mark for Senate incumbents. Here are five takeaways from this week’s campaign finance filings: Team Trump lost the White House but…… MORE
President Donald Trump heads to Georgia on Saturday to campaign for two Republican senators one month ahead of a critical runoff that will determine which party controls the Senate. But Trump’s visit comes as he has spent the last several weeks consumed by his own election loss while attacking party officials in the state, casting…… MORE
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether the Trump administration can allow states to impose work requirements in their Medicaid programs. The administration had asked the justices in July to reinstate its historic approvals of state work requirements waivers, which it argues may assist certain beneficiaries in transitioning to private policies and may lead…… MORE
Federal agents patrolling American streets without badges or insignias identifying who they are would become a thing of the past if a defense bill working its way through Congress becomes federal law. The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act — annual legislation that sets funding priorities and policies for Department of Defense spending — includes provisions…… MORE
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has emerged as a key contender to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, two people familiar with the matter say, as President-elect Joe Biden weighs who to tap for a role that will be critical to his administration’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The HHS secretary position…… MORE
President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that the Trump administration had shared information with his transition team about distributing a vaccine to various states, but Biden said his team had not seen a “detailed plan.” “There is no detailed plan that we’ve seen, anyway, as to how you get the vaccine out of a container, into an injection syringe, into…… MORE
President Donald Trump has purged a Pentagon business advisory board and replaced its members with his former campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, neither of whom have served in the military or have any apparent experience with the defense industry. Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller announced Friday that Trump loyalists Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie…… MORE
Slightly more than half of US adults — 54% — now say that they know someone who has been hospitalized or died due to Covid-19, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center. It’s a drastic uptick since late May, when a previous Pew survey found that just 20% of Americans knew someone…… MORE
Don’t expect to hear of Asian giant “murder hornets” or nests being captured in the coming months. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is taking down their Asian giant hornet traps for the winter. Asian giant hornets either die off or hibernate in the winter, so the traps are being removed. “This time of…… MORE
More than 1,000 migrant children in US government custody have tested positive for coronavirus since March, according to the federal agency charged with their care. In total, there have been 1,061 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases among unaccompanied migrant children in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency run by the Department of…… MORE
