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Resistance to the potential renomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell intensified this week, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren becoming the first senator to publicly oppose him and many progressive groups pushing for some alternative leader at the Fed.

CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Group/Getty Images By Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN When Rep. Rosa DeLauro first introduced legislation to expand the child tax credit 18 years ago, even her fellow Democrats dismissed it as a fringe idea. “Like crazy aunts in the attic,” is how DeLauro described the way her colleagues looked at her in 2003, and nearly every year since then, as she re-introduced the measure over and over again. But by the 2020 election, such progr...

This Capitol Hill duo has worked on family issues for nearly 30 years CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Group/Getty Images DeLauro says her own family experiences drove her to fight for progressive policies on Capitol Hill. By Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, CNN When Rep. Rosa DeLauro first introduced legislation to expand the child tax credit 18 years ago, even her fellow Democrats dismissed it as a fringe idea. “Like crazy aunts in the attic,” is how DeLauro described...

FOOTBALL fans are getting excited ahead of the round of 16 clash against Germany in the Euros. Places at pubs have been in high demand as people want to guarantee their spots to watch the match. Even though pubs have been operating at reduced capacities, there is still a big buzz for the games. Chris Dodd, who with his wife Ana, manages The Robin Hood in Norfolk Place, Brighton, said: "We are very excited; we could have been booked the pub four times over; there has been such a huge deman...

The debate over the origins of the coronavirus—did it come from a wet market in Wuhan or from the virology lab nearby—has exposed the bias of media and technology companies and the potential danger of so-called gain of function research. But it also has led to something of an intellectual...

“They are the closest things we have to somebody being declared a lord or a lady.” Donors are eager to get them. The White House is not making it easy.

The US is to donate 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, a delegation of three US senators said in Taipei yesterday. The delegation made the announcement during a brief stopover in Taiwan. The White House on Thursday announced that it aims to donate at least 80 million doses globally by the end of this month. The donation would be part of the first tranche of 25 million doses. “It was critical to the United States that Taiwan be included in the first group to receive vaccines, because...

By Lu Yi-hsuan and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe US is to donate 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Taiwan, a delegation of three US senators said in Taipei yesterday.

Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang says if the United States makes certain declarations, China will back off. Three top U.S. senators will visit Taiwan to meet with its top leaders Sunday amid a period of tense relations between the United States and China.  Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Chris Coons, D-Del., and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, are making the visit as part of a broader trip to Asia, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, which announced the visit Saturday.  "The b...

Massachusetts House Majority Leader Claire Cronin, who was a top surrogate for President Joe Biden in Massachusetts during the 2020 campaign, could be headed to Ireland as ambassador, with one source saying the Easton Democrat is being vetted by the White House and an online report suggesting she was “soon to be revealed” as Biden’s nominee. The possibility that Cronin, who