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At least $36 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits have been stolen from the U.S., according to analysis from the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Labor. As CNBC reports, 10 percent of the $360 billion Congress allotted for unemployment benefits in the Cares Act have been improperly distributed, mostly due to scams […]
Joe Biden has reiterated his support for $2,000 stimulus checks, but says he needs Americans’ help to make it happen. During a Monday night rally in Atlanta, the president-elect urged Georgia residents to vote blue in the state’s Senate runoff elections, claiming a failure to do so would prevent another round of much-needed stimulus payments. Biden’s comments came […]
Nancy Pelosi has been reelected as Speaker of the House despite a slim margin of victory, CNN reports. Of the 216 votes that Pelosi received, one notable name who stayed in her corner was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been lukewarm about having her serve another term. Ocasio-Cortez told The Intercept last month that she’s prepared to […]
Protestors targeted the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on New Year’s Eve to send a message about the dire economic hardships facing so many Americans. According to TMZ, Pelosi’s San Francisco home was vandalized Thursday evening. The people involved spray-painted her garage door with the words “Cancel Rent!” and “We Want Everything” in black. […]
Jon Ossoff refused to bite his tongue. During a live impromptu interview with Fox News on Wednesday, the Democratic Senate candidate took aim at Georgia’s Republican incumbent, Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Reporter Peter Doocy asked Ossoff if he had any concerns about the recent abuse allegations involving Loeffler’s Democratic opponent, Raphael Warnock. The GOP senator has repeatedly cited a Washington Free Beacon report in which a […]
Florida’s elderly population is going to great lengths to ensure they get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible. According to the Associated Press, senior citizens have begun swarming distribution sites across the Sunshine State, where anyone over the age of 65 is eligible to receive the shot along with health care workers. However, Florida’s vaccine […]
Christian artist Sean Feucht has spent the last year on a bit of a COVID-19 whistle stop tour. The performer has stopped off in cities around the country to hold maskless worship concerts, spreading the word of God like some kind of airborne virus to all who might hear it. Needless to say, this has earned […]
The U.S. government’s newly released dietary guidelines is receiving criticism from health experts, as it did not include two major recommendations regarding alcohol and sugar consumption. According to the New York Times, an external scientific advisory committee had advised the Trump administration to lower the suggested amount of daily alcohol intake in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, […]
On Monday, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa reimposed a national ban on alcohol sales, while also closing down all bars, in an effort to combat a spike in the spread of COVID (with that spike also reportedly involving a new strain). The country had attempted to find a middle ground earlier in December by limiting alcohol sales to select hours […]
President Trump signed the combined coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law, the New York Times reports. The president spent the week indicating that he would decline any coronavirus relief bill that didn’t include $2000 stimulus checks for every American. Lawmakers urged him to sign the massive bill that included $600 stimulus checks, fearing a government […]
