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Cuomo’s top aides allegedly altered N.Y. health department report to obscure nursing home death count
Top aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo altered a state Health Department report to obscure the true number of people killed by COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported late Thursday. The aides, including the secretary to the governor, Melissa DeRosa, pushed state health officials to edit the July report so …
Election 2020 live updates: Biden forges ahead with transition as aides say Trump has no endgame
November 12, 2020 at 6:19 AM EST Pressure mounts on state Republicans as lawsuits challenging election results founder By Elise Viebeck, Tom Hamburger, Jon Swaine and Emma Brown Pressure mounted on state and local officials in battleground states to accept claims of ballot-counting irregularities and voter fraud in the election despite a lack of evidence, …
Live Coronavirus Updates: Trump Aides Target Fauci
A new week begins with a grim outlook: More than 100,000 new cases were identified over the weekend. More than 100,000 new coronavirus cases were identified. Seven states set daily case records. Florida added more infections in a day than any state had previously. And that was just over the weekend. The U.S. outbreak — …
Trump tells aides he supports second round of stimulus checks, but White House divisions remain
In March, Congress approved stimulus payments of up to $1,200 per person for every American citizen earning less than $75,000 per year as part of the Cares Act. The Internal Revenue Service had, as of the beginning of June, sent these payments to more than 159 million American households. Many economists say the checks provided …
Alfredo and Susana Pabatao Die; Health Care Aides on the Front Lines
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Both Alfredo and Susana Pabatao, who were married for 44 years, worked on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus — he as a transport aide at a hospital in North Bergen, N.J., …
Trump aides overtake health officials’ narrative – again
“That’s what this is all about. I got a note today from a reporter saying, what are you going to do today to calm the markets? Really what I might do today to calm the markets is tell people to turn their televisions off for 24 hours,” Mulvaney said at the Conservative Political Action Conference. …
Trump aides reportedly seething over France’s handling of G7 summit
President Donald Trump publicly lavished praise on French President Emmanuel Macron, even as his aides fumed over France’s handling of the G7 Summit, according to multiple reports. Though Trump boasted of his and Macron’s ” special relationship” during a private lunch at the start of the summit, his aides reportedly believe that the French organized …
Trump Raves Over Macron at G7, While Aides Slam France
At their impromptu lunch on Saturday, Mr. Macron called Mr. Trump “a very special guest for us” and pledged cooperation. But for those around the American president, their meeting was just the first of what promised to be a series of fraught interactions as he presses his case with his counterparts. And amid preparations for …
Trump aides reportedly convinced him to delay Chinese tariffs by arguing they’d ‘ruin Christmas’
Trade advisers to President Trump ostensibly appealed to his softer side, suggesting that he delay planned tariffs on China that could “ruin Christmas.” The president’s aides reportedly came to him last week with a plea to delay the tariff imposition on China that could hike the price of popular retail products produced in China. They …
China tariffs: Aides turned to Christmas cheer to get Trump to delay them
It was a tactic that worked: Trump announced the tariffs would be delayed until December 15. It was one back-down amid a grueling trade war that Trump insists will eventually benefit Americans — and will demonstrate his toughness on China. And while it caused markets to soar on Tuesday, the gains were erased a day …
