A pair of former Republican Michigan secretaries of state on Tuesday sued to stop the state’s plan to count late-arriving ballots. The Detroit News reports: The suit in the Western District of Michigan is the latest escalation in a legal fracas focused on a state that President Donald Trump won by 10,704 votes in 2016.…
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Federal Reserve officials significantly upgraded their view of the economy this week even as they projected interests rates would stay near zero for years to come. “Economic activity and employment have picked up in recent months but remain well below their levels at the beginning of the year,” the Fed’s monetary policy setting Federal Open…
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon testified before a State Senate Oversight Committee on Wednesday that he does not know how many of the state’s more than 5,000 COVID-19 deaths are from nursing homes, but believes they account for more than 23 percent of those deaths “at this stage.” “I will…
Travelers are increasingly being denied entry to the United States as border officials hold them accountable for messages, images and video on their devices sent by other people. It’s a bizarre set of circumstances that has seen countless number of foreign nationals rejected from the U.S. after friends, family or even strangers send messages, images…
Federal Reserve officials may not tweet their views of monetary policy but on Thursday they were happy to take to television interviews to challenge President Donald Trump’s view about the need for lower rates. The heads of the Kansas City and Philadelphia Federal Reserve banks both said in interviews with CNBC that they thought the…