Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday announced a coalition of 11 senators and senators-elect who have been enlisted for Trump's effort to subvert the will of American voters | 2021/01/03
At least 12 Republican senators including Sens. Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Steve Daines, John Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, and Mike Braun will object to certifying the results of the 2020 election. Cruz and his allies also want a commission to look into false, GOP-generated allegations of voter fraud.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), graffiti with the words Weres [sic] my money on the front door of his Louisville home (Getty Images)
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s California home was vandalized, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell s home in Kentucky was covered with graffiti on January 1, 2021, after polls showed that the overwhelming majority of Americans disagreed with McConnell s opposition to $2,000 stimulus checks.
McConnell s home in Louisville was graffitied with the words Weres [sic] my money on the front door, along McConnell s front porch being covered with similar messages. Slogans like F Mitch and Mitch Kills Poor were also painted, which demonstrated the clear outrage that people felt in response to McConnell s staunch stance against providing Americans with $2,000 stimulus checks â a move that President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans and Democrats have pushed for.
The Richest 500 People in the World Added $1.8 Trillion to Their Wealth in 2020
SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 1, 2020, in Berlin, Germany.
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Bloomberg’s year-end report on the wealth of the world’s billionaires shows that the richest 500 people on the planet added $1.8 trillion to their combined wealth in 2020, accumulating a total net worth of $7.6 trillion.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index recorded its largest annual gain in the list’s history last year, with a 31% increase in the wealth of the richest people.
The historic hoarding of wealth came as the world confronted the coronavirus pandemic and its corresponding economic crisis, which the United Nations last month warned is a “tipping point” set to send more than 207 million additional people into extreme poverty in the next decade bringing the number of people living in extreme poverty to one billion