President Joe Biden released his $5.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2023 on Monday, including significant funding for the police, in an effort to set himself apart from progressives in his party who have advocated for defunding the police. Biden also called for more defense spending and a new minimum tax targeting the rich.
Jackson supporters "pretending" that "serious questions and discussion on the relevant qualifications of a judge" are "somehow equivalent to what happened in the Brett Kavanaugh process," says legal activist Carrie Severino.
prominent Democratic politician and megadonor in Maine was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, but his bail was set at only $50,000.
Chinese emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) plane that crashed with 132 people onboard, but U.S. efforts to join the investigation are on hold because of COVID-19 quarantine rules.