Government
McConnell: 15-20 GOP senators will not vote for any coronavirus deal
BY JORDAIN CARNEY Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Friday that more than a third of Republican senators will not vote for any coronavirus relief
Five takeaways from Attorney General Barr’s contentious congressional hearing
By Amber Phillip July 28, 2020 at 2:19 p.m. EDT Attorney General William P. Barr testified Tuesday for the first time in his tenure in
Headlines
Obama delivers call to action in eulogy for Lewis, likens tactics by Trump and administration to those by racist Southern leaders who fought civil
Obama delivers call to action in eulogy for Lewis, likens tactics by Trump and administration to those by racist Southern leaders who fought civil rightsIn
Three former presidents — Obama, Bush, Clinton — pay tribute to civil rights icon John Lewis
By John Wagner and Paul Kane July 30, 2020 at 2:06 p.m. EDT Three former presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton —
Democrat enters 29th District race
By JOSH JANNEY The Winchester Star WINCHESTER — Local attorney Irina Khanin announced Wednesday that she is seeking the Democratic nomination to run for the 29th
Politics
New York Times: Mail delays fuel concern Trump is undercutting postal system ahead of voting
BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR, HAILEY FUCHS AND KENNETH P. VOGEL Welcome to the next election battleground: the post office. President Trump’s yearslong assault on
Pelosi: Trump trying ‘to suppress the vote’ with attacks on mail-in ballots
BY CRISTINA MARCOS Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that President Trump’s attacks on voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic and his suggestion to postpone the November
Obama delivers call to action in eulogy for Lewis, likens tactics by Trump and administration to those by racist Southern leaders who fought civil
Obama delivers call to action in eulogy for Lewis, likens tactics by Trump and administration to those by racist Southern leaders who fought civil rightsIn
Government
McConnell: 15-20 GOP senators will not vote for any coronavirus deal
BY JORDAIN CARNEY Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Friday that more than a third of Republican senators will not vote for any coronavirus relief
Five takeaways from Attorney General Barr’s contentious congressional hearing
By Amber Phillip July 28, 2020 at 2:19 p.m. EDT Attorney General William P. Barr testified Tuesday for the first time in his tenure in
Politics
New York Times: Mail delays fuel concern Trump is undercutting postal system ahead of voting
BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR, HAILEY FUCHS AND KENNETH P. VOGEL Welcome to the next election battleground: the post office. President Trump’s yearslong assault on
Pelosi: Trump trying ‘to suppress the vote’ with attacks on mail-in ballots
BY CRISTINA MARCOS Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Friday that President Trump’s attacks on voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic and his suggestion to postpone the November
Op-Ed
Why I am running for office
RICHARD KENNEDY I’ve been asked recently why I chose to run for a seat on the Frederick County Board of Supervisors, representing the Shawnee District.
Four more years of this?
KEVIN KENNEDY A relative recently sent us a listing of the awful things that Trump has said and done, both before and during his presidency.
COVID-19 Response Bill – Really Bad
Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans have been stalling for literally months, but now they’ve released their next COVID-19 response bill — and it’s bad. Really bad.
When great trees fall: Remembering John Lewis
By Antjuan Seawright OPINION | Maybe it’s because John Lewis grew up a sharecropper’s son in rural Alabama and I was the grandson of sharecroppers in
Nation Apparently Believed in Science at Some Point
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report)—Historians studying archival photographs from four decades ago have come to the conclusion that the U.S. must have believed in science at
Undertaker in Chief
Undertaker and Chief — A new moniker for Donald Trump? Well, some 130,000 more Americans have died so far this year than would be normal.
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