A Canadian MP inadvertently appeared on a parliamentary video call without clothes on. William Amos apologized, saying he forgot to turn the camera off while changing after a jog. Canada’s parliament is using a mix of remote and in-person proceedings during the pandemic. See more stories on Insider’s business page. […]
Gutfeld: The media’s toxic racial narrative on policing ‘Gutfeld!’ examines media coverage of the Minnesota protests and Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s demand to abolish police It was Day 2 of protests following the deadly shooting of a young Black man. Meanwhile, a CNN reporter portrays herself as being in the thick […]
President Joe Biden has higher job approval ratings than Congress as he nears his first 100 days in office, according to two new national polls. Areport released Wednesday by Quinnipiac University showed 48% of American adults approve of Biden’s job performance. Most respondents to a Monmouth University poll, 54%, reported the same.Both polls […]
FLASHBACK: Biden is silent now on court-packing stance, but in 1983 he called it a ‘bonehead’ idea Biden said he was against court-packing 40 years ago but now the former VP won’t give stance on the issue. Decades before President Biden established a commission to explore an expansion of the […]
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has claimed that enough Republicans will support expanding voting rights that Democrats shouldn’t change Senate rules in order to pass the voting rights bill that has been their priority since winning full control of Congress. There’s a catch though: Senate Republicans don’t seem particularly interested. The “Gang of […]
The House coronavirus subcommittee will hear Thursday from three top Biden administration health officials about the United States' vaccination efforts. The hearing comes two days after dozens of states abruptly stopped administering Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid vaccine following reports of six cases of women who developed a rare blood-clotting […]
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is flooding state legislatures as Republicans return to their familiar strategy of demonizing marginalized populations to mobilize their base following recent election losses. There are more than 200 such bills currently under consideration by state legislatures, according to the Human Rights Campaign. More than ever before, one specific […]
The U.S. will end its military presence in Afghanistan later this year, President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday afternoon ― concluding a two-decade conflict. “I am now the fourth United States president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans. Two Democrats,” Biden said in a prepared […]
Biden’s Jim Eagle remark falls flat on voter response dials: pollster Pollster Lee Carter dials voters on President Biden’s remark on GOP state voting legislation making ‘Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.’ President Biden said parts of the United States are “backsliding” into “the days of Jim Crow,” during remarks […]
The Treasury Department will create a new office to oversee coronavirus relief programs. The office will dole out about $420 billion in assistance approved in March as part of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The IRS will still primarily manage direct payments and the expanded child tax credit, two […]
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