By Adam Shaw | Fox News Congressional budget scorekeepers sounded the alarm Friday just as President Trump signed another multibillion-dollar coronavirus response bill, reporting in a new projection that the federal budget deficit will hit a stunning $3.7 trillion in fiscal 2020, and debt held by the public is projected to surpass GDP by year’s end. This comes as […]
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CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years
By ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — An estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press. Flu experts knew it […]
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712 People in Washington State Being Monitored for Coronavirus Symptoms
By Zachary Stieber Featured Image: A self-contained breathing apparatus and a photo of recruits inside a Washington State Patrol Fire Training Academy dormitory which has been designated as a Novel Coronavirus quarantine site, in Washington on Feb. 6, 2020. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images) Only one person has tested positive for the new coronavirus in […]
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In 2020, DC will be mostly about politics, not legislation
By Chad Pergram | Fox News This is around the time of the winter break that children have busted most of the toys they acquired for Christmas and mom and dad can’t wait for the kids to go back to school. It kind of works this way in Congress, too. Everyone has played with all of the […]
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Newt Gingrich: George Washington experienced America’s first Christmas miracle – And it changed our history
By Newt Gingrich | Fox News As I gather with family and friends for the holiday, I like to think about the most important Christmas moments that we have shared together. This year, as I was thinking about it, I also thought about the most important Christmas moments in American history. My mind immediately went to the first – George Washington’s victory at the Battle of Trenton […]
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Officials still puzzled about ‘hovering’ object that prompted lockdown in DC
By Chad Pergram, Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Security officials on Capitol Hill are still puzzled by what sparked the security threat to be issued Tuesday morning that put both the White House and the Capitol on lockdown. The incident caused an abrupt security situation, with jets being scrambled and officers warning people outside Capitol facilities to stay far away. The U.S. Secret […]
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Dems launch longshot bid for DC statehood at rare hearing, as Republicans hammer local corruption
By Alex Pappas | Fox News House Democrats, in their first hearing on D.C. statehood in more than 25 years, on Thursday advocated for the District of Columbia to become the country’s 51st state as Republicans raised concerns about recent corruption scandals involving local D.C. officials. Critics of D.C. statehood have long cited local corruption as one reason to […]
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Whistleblower complaint, reportedly on Trump ‘promise’ to foreign leader, touches off DC firestorm
By Judson Berger | Fox News A whistleblower complaint that reportedly involved allegations President Trump made a troubling and unspecified “promise” to a foreign leader touched off a new Washington firestorm on Thursday, as the intelligence community’s top watchdog was questioned by Congress on the matter and the president adamantly denied the accusations. The details surfaced overnight in a Washington […]
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Washington Post says it passed on New York Times’ now-revised Kavanaugh story
By Brian Flood | Fox News The Washington Post has revealed it passed on a questionable story about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh back in 2018 because it “could not independently corroborate the allegation” and key figures didn’t cooperate. The story, about a sexual assault allegedly committed by Kavanaugh during the 1983-84 school year at Yale, was published Saturday by The New York […]
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Ilhan Omar issues terse denial on allegations of affair with married DC consultant
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is denying allegations of an affair with a married Washington, D.C., consultant. The accusations emerged earlier this week in a divorce filing from the man’s estranged wife, just over a month after it was reported that Omar had separated from her husband and father of her three children, Ahmed Hirsi. […]
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Tanks arrive in DC as Trump confirms July Fourth celebration will feature military display
By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News President Trump’s dream of a celebration showing off America’s military capabilities will become a reality on Thursday, as the president confirmed tanks will play a role in Washington, D.C.’s Fourth of July festivities — and the vehicles were seen being hauled in on a freight train. An Associated Press photographer spotted the two M1A1 Abrams tanks, along […]
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USDA staffers quit en masse as Trump administration eyes moving offices out of DC
By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway. Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but […]
