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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military. The new order, which Biden signed in the Oval Office during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, overturns a ban ordered by President Donald Trump in a tweet during his first year in office. It immediately prohibits any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender id... Full story
WASHINGTON – When a 14-year-old girl ran away from her Virginia home after a family conflict in 2018, law enforcement feared she could be vulnerable. Agents from the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force found the teenager at a known brothel in Maryland. After investigators built trust with her, she told them she had met Daniel Palacios Rodriguez while trying to survive on the streets. Rodriguez groomed her for prostitution. He slowly introduced her into sexual exploitation, and she was eventually tra...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration, in consultation with the U.S. Treasury Department, reopened the Paycheck Protection Program loan portal to PPP-eligible lenders with $1 billion or less in assets for first and second draw applications Friday, Jan. 15. The portal opened fully Tuesday, Jan. 19, to all participating PPP lenders to submit first and second draw loan applications to SBA. Earlier in the week, SBA granted dedicated PPP access to Community Financial Institutions which include community d...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration, in consultation with the Treasury Department, announced that the Paycheck Protection Program reopened Jan. 11 for new borrowers and certain existing PPP borrowers. To promote access to capital, initially only community financial institutions will be able to make first draw PPP loans Monday, Jan. 11, and second draw PPP loans Wednesday, Jan. 13. The PPP will open to all participating lenders shortly thereafter. Updated PPP guidance outlining Program changes to enhance its e...
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appear to have come to a détente after nearly a week of silence, anger and finger-pointing. The two met Monday evening, Jan. 11, in the Oval Office and had a "good conversation," according to a senior administration official. It was their first time speaking since Wednesday, Jan. 6, when Trump incited his supporters to storm the Capitol building as Pence was presiding over certification of November's election results....
Prosecutors have brought dozens of cases after the deadly attack at the U.S. Capitol, and more charges are expected in the coming days as investigators identify more members of the pro-Trump mob. Investigators are collecting tips from the public, interviewing witnesses and going through photos, videos and social media accounts to collect evidence against the attackers who overran the Capitol to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden as the next president. And those...
Astronauts blasted into orbit from the U.S. for the first time in nearly a decade in 2020, while three countries sent spacecraft hurtling toward Mars and robotic explorers grabbed rocks from the moon and gravel from an asteroid for return to Earth. Space provided moments of hope and glory in an otherwise difficult, stressful year. It promises to do the same in 2021, with February's landings at Mars and next fall's planned launch of the Hubble Space Telescope's successor – t...
American factories grew in December at the fastest pace in more than two years as manufacturing continued to weather the pandemic better than the battered services sector. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday, Jan. 5, that its gauge of manufacturing activity rose to 60.7% in December, the highest reading since it stood at 60.8 in August 2018. The gauge was up 3.2 percentage points from a November level of 57.5. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion in the...
BATAVIA, Ill. – A viable quantum internet – a network in which information stored in qubits is shared over long distances through entanglement – would transform the fields of data storage, precision sensing and computing, ushering in a new era of communication. In December, scientists at Fermilab, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science national laboratory, and their partners took a significant step in the direction of realizing a quantum internet. In a paper publi...
Kimberlee Kruesi, Denise Lavoie and Michael Balsamo The Associated Press The man authorities believe was responsible for setting off a Christmas Day bomb that injured three people and damaged dozens of buildings in downtown Nashville told a neighbor days before the explosion that "Nashville and the world is never going to forget me." Rick Laude said he saw Anthony Quinn Warner, 63, standing at his mailbox Monday, Dec. 21, and pulled over in his car to speak with him. After...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are warning the public about several emerging fraud schemes related to COVID-19 vaccines. The FBI, HHS-OIG and CMS have received complaints of scammers using the public’s interest in COVID-19 vaccines to obtain personally identifiable information and money through various schemes as they work with law enforcement partners and the private sector to identify cyb...
Dec 28, 2020 2:08 PM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - It seemed like a friendly chat between neighbors. Only after a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning could Rick Laude grasp the sinister meaning behind his neighbor's smiling remark that the city and the rest of the world would never forget him. Laude told The Associated Press on Monday that he was speechless when he learned that authorities identified his 63-year-old neighbor, Anthony Quinn Warner, as the man...
Statement from the President BUDGET & SPENDING Issued on: December 27, 2020 As President of the United States it is my responsibility to protect the people of our country from the economic devastation and hardship that was caused by the China Virus. I understand that many small businesses have been forced to close as a result of harsh actions by Democrat-run states. Many people are back to work, but my job is not done until everyone is back to work. Fortunately, as a result... Full story
According to Pew Research, President Trump has granted clemency less frequently than any president in modern history. So far, Trump has pardoned or commuted sentences for a total of 49 people. A Nov. 24 Pew Research report noted, "As he enters the home stretch of his White House tenure, Donald Trump has used his clemency power less often than any president in modern history, according to data from the U.S. Department of Justice. Trump's sparse use of pardons, commutations and... Full story
December 23, 2020 President Donald Trump forced the months-long pandemic relief saga into overtime on Dec. 22 with the surprise release of a video statement in which he derided the mammoth spending measure's "wasteful" provisions for foreign governments and demanded more money for American taxpayers. The president didn't use the word "veto," but all but implied he would block the bill unless Congress removed billions in spending allocated to foreign nations and domestic instit... 
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WASHINGTON – White House adviser Peter Navarro released a 36-page report alleging election fraud called “The Immaculate Deception.” He presented the contents of the report in a news conference Friday, Dec. 17. According to the executive summary, “this report assesses the fairness and integrity of the 2020 presidential election by examining six dimensions of alleged election irregularities across six key battleground states.” Evidence used to conduct this assessment included more than 50 lawsuits and judicial rulings, thousand...
A divided Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives. The court’s decision Friday, Dec. 18, led by its conservative justices, is not a final ruling on the matter and, while it allows Trump to pursue the plan for now, it’s not clear whether he will receive final numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau before Jan. 20. For now, the high court said it was t...
Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday, Dec. 20, on a $900 billion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them. The agreement, announced by congressional leaders, would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefit and a $600 direct stimulus payment to most Americans, along with a new round of subsidies for hard-hit...
Trucks waiting to get out of Britain backed up for miles and people were left stranded at airports Monday, Dec. 21, as dozens of countries around the world slapped tough travel restrictions on the U.K. because of a new and seemingly more contagious, but not more deadly, strain of the coronavirus in England. From Canada to India, one nation after another banned flights from Britain, while France barred the entry of trucks from Britain for 48 hours while the strain is assessed....
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged for the first time that Joe Biden has been elected president. The Kentucky Republican broke his silence on the Democrat’s November win after weeks in which he and other Republican leaders refused to contradict President Donald Trump’s declarations that he was the victor in an election marred by fraud. McConnell made his remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday, Dec. 15, a day after the Electoral College formally affirmed Biden’s victory. On Monday, several other top Senate Repub...
William Barr is stepping down as attorney general “before Christmas,” President Donald Trump said in a Twitter post Monday, Dec. 14. “Just had a very nice meeting with attorney general Bill Barr at the White House. Our relationship has been a very good one, he has done an outstanding job! As per letter, Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family,” Trump said. Trump said that deputy attorney General Jeff Rosen, whom he described as “an outstanding person,” will become the acting atto...
Eric Tucker, Frank Bajak and Matt O’Brien The Associated Press Hackers broke into the networks of the Treasury and Commerce departments as part of a monthslong global cyberespionage campaign revealed Sunday, Dec. 13, just days after the prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye said it had been breached in an attack that industry experts said bore the hallmarks of Russian tradecraft. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm were investigating what experts and former officials said appeared to be a lar...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration joined the Department of Defense’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership for a virtual ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 9. The SBA is one of 85 new partners joining MSEP, bringing the number of employers to 500. MSEP connects military spouses with hundreds of partner employers who commit to recruit, hire, promote and retain military spouses. Since its inception in 2011, MSEP employers have hired more than 175,000 military spouses. “SBA proudly joins this partnership, which will st...
A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma and Chinese business dealings and other financial transactions, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of Hunter Biden Saturday, Dec. 12. CNN reported the scope of the probe, including that it is focused on China. Investigators have been examining multiple financial issues, including whether Hunter Biden and his associates...
The first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials made their way to distribution sites across the United States Sunday, Dec. 13. The rollout of the Pfizer vaccine, the first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, ushers in the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history – one that health officials hope the American public will embrace, even as some have voiced initial skepticism or worry. Shots are expected to be given to health care workers and nursing home residents beginning Monday, Dec. 14. Quick t...
