Politics

The Swedish government is rolling out a 500 million Swedish kronor (£43.8m/$57.5m) bailout package to help mainstream media companies in the wake of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated an Israeli Defense Ministry-run laboratory on its announcement it will begin testing its coronavirus vaccine on human subjects in October, with the vaccine expected to be ready by the end of the first quarter of 2021.

GALLATIN, Tennessee — Bill Hagerty, now the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate here in Tennessee, told Breitbart News in his first exclusive interview after winning the primary election on Thursday night he intends to follow through on his promise to hold China accountable for the coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) criticized Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) for moving forward with opening schools while Texas has a coronavirus positivity rate of 17%.

Thursday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” anchor Chris Cuomo said President Donald Trump was pointing to his opponent former Vice President Joe Biden’s “mental acuity” because something was lacking in his own mental acuity.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced the State Department is expanding its Clean Network initiative to keep Americans’ data safe from Chinese vendors looking to exploit the data.

During a press conference on Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated that if President Trump issues the executive orders on the economy that he has vowed to issue if Congress can’t reach a deal on the next round

GALLATIN, Tennessee — President Donald Trump completed his perfect record in U.S. Senate primaries this election cycle on Thursday night as his former U.S. ambassador to Japan, Bill Hagerty, defeated Dr. Manny Sethi in the GOP primary here for U.S. Senate.

Former Vice President Joe Biden attempted to “clarify” his remarks earlier Thursday about African Americans, in which he said — twice, before two separate audiences — that they were not diverse, unlike the Latino community.

On Friday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow said that the White House is taking a look at issuing executive orders on evictions, a payroll tax cut student loans, extending unemployment benefits, “and possibly added benefits

Democrats and the broader left should rebrand their “defund the police” slogan as “refund the communities,” said Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA).

Former Vice President Joe Biden is doubling down on his recent claim that America’s Latino community has “full diversity, unlike the African American community.”

Politico reporter Holly Otterbein claims some Pennsylvania Democrats view New York’s lawsuit against the National Rifle Association (NRA), New York vs. NRA, as an “October Surprise” that could end up helping President Trump rally voters in November.

CatholicVote.org, a national faith-based organization, is calling on Joe Biden to condemn recent attacks by progressives on sacred symbols.

President Donald Trump made six promises to American workers Thursday if he is reelected in November.
“I didn’t back down from my promises and I kept every single one,” he said. 

Tennessee will hold primary elections on Thursday evening. In the marquee GOP Senate race, Bill Hagerty, whom President Donald Trump endorsed, faces off against Manny Sethi.

Wednesday during an interview at the 2020 National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists Joint Virtual Convention, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said that while prosecuting a former president would not be “good for democracy,” if elected he would not stand in the way of the Justice Department pursuing criminal charges against President Donald Trump after he is out of office.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has reversed course and abandoned its plan to lay off several dozen U.S. technology workers after President Donald Trump criticized the power company and fired two of its board members.

President Donald Trump reacted to the August 6, New York lawsuit against the NRA by calling out the left in general, and warning that the Second Amendment ‘doesn’t have a chance” if Joe Biden wins in November. 

Brooklyn gang member Darius Sutton took part in at least three shootings after being released without bail in May on an attempted murder charge, according to federal prosecutors.

President Donald Trump on Thursday weighed in on the idea of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as a possible vice presidential choice for former Vice President Joe Biden.

A look back in U.S. history tells us just how much can change when a president is suddenly replaced by a vice president.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli stated that violence in the city of Portland will continue until the city is “willing to responsibly, but aggressively police the violence

Ferrari Driver Charles Leclerc is striking back after critics slammed him for refusing to kneel during the national anthem.

Cotton suggested Google’s suppression of political news critical of Joe Biden and Democrats on its search engine is election interference.

Minnesota’s largest newspaper, the Star Tribune, has endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) primary challenger, pointing out his “integrity and progress” as the main reason for their choice.

Joe Biden’s campaign unveiled its first general election ad aimed at black Americans on Thursday, urging them to stand against President Donald Trump in the same manner that African Americans “stood up to the violent racists” in the past. 

The U.S. “should lift sanctions imposed against Lebanese people” following the port explosion in Beirut on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.

“American factory workers received nothing but broken promises and brazen sellouts and lost jobs. The last administration tied America up in one globalist debacle after another,” Trump said.

Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) nearly doubled her income in 2010 from consulting fees she received from a nonprofit she co-founded, and Bass’s re-election campaign donated nearly $100,000 to that nonprofit between 2008 and 2011, the Los Angeles Times reports.