Monthly Archives: April, 2020
Former GOP chair blasts Newsom’s broad stay-at-home order: California too big for ‘one man to try to control’
Wednesday former chairman of the California Republican Party Tom Del Beccaro pushed back on the state’s stay-at-home order saying he thinks “things are going to unravel” for Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Stocks surge as Gilead coronavirus drug eclipses GDP drop
Wednesday U.S. equity markets soared as upbeat news about a potential coronavirus treatment from drugmaker Gilead Sciences helped offset a larger-than-expected drop in first-quarter gross domestic product.
Costco, Walmart, Kroger ‘grossly inflated’ the price of eggs during coronavirus pandemic, lawsuit claims
Dozens of retailers and farms have been named in a class-action lawsuit that alleges they engaged in price-gouging by marking up the price of eggs sold in California.
FBI docs show extensive efforts to surveil Stone, but no evidence of collusion
Tuesday FBI affidavits show the extent of the bureau’s far-ranging surveillance of former Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone — and confirm that while Stone spoke to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, there was no evidence that he conspired to hack or release top Democrats’ private emails ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Perez haunted by past call for officials who ‘engaged in sexual misconduct’ to ‘step aside,’ amid Biden claims
In 2017, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez released a statement regarding sexual misconduct is coming back to haunt him as the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, faces his own allegations.
Stocks fight for gains as earnings season revs up
Tuesday U.S. equity markets fought to keep gains as earnings season kicked into high gear and the Federal Reserve started a two-day policy meeting. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose as many as 378 points, or 1.57 percent, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite gained as much as 1.48 percent and 1.15 percent, respectively.
Supermarket meat aisle may have less variety, higher prices in coming weeks, analysts predict
That’s all part of the plan, cause shortages, to raise prices. A possible disruption in the food-supply chain isn’t expected to leave the supermarket’s meat aisle completely bare, but it may leave shoppers with their less-preferred cuts — and paying slightly more for them, too.
Sen. Cotton asks how Dems who believed claims against Kavanaugh could ‘possibly agree’ to be Biden running mate
Sunday Sen. Tom Cotton, said that Democratic senators who believed sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t want to be Joe Biden’s running mate, claiming there is more evidence for an assault claim against Biden as a sitting senator in the 1990s than there were for claims against Kavanaugh from his youth.
Senate Intel says there was ‘no political pressure’ to reach conclusions in intelligence report on Russian interference
The Senate Intelligence Committee found that officials who drafted and prepared the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian interference in the last presidential election “were under no political pressure” to reach “specific conclusions” and praised the “strong tradecraft” applied in creating the document, a new report released by the committee’s Republicans and Democrats revealed.
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