“I don’t know where or how or even why we are doing this, but we are and I am hosting it! The 72nd #EmmyAwards” Kimmel, who is also producing the show, Tweeted. He added that the ceremony is slated for Sunday, September 20 on ABC. It remains unclear how the event will take place, as the coronavirus pandemic has prevented gatherings of large groups and many cancelations throughout the entertainment industry....
The fervent Donald Trump supporter Lindell rose to prominence these past few months over his support of baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. “Somehow a simple pillow salesman from Minnesota got to the bottom of the deepest conspiracy in the history of American politics,” Kimmel said introducing Lindell. “It’s so crazy, it’s almost hard to believe.” Election watchdog groups had previously urged Jimmy Kimmel Live! not to go ahead with having Lindell on as a guest....
Music Moments is a compilation album and video series featuring Joan Jett, Jason Isbell, Band of Horses and more recording covers, previously unreleased songs and new versions of old songs for the project. In her video clip, Jett, who contributed an acoustic rendition of her song “Hard to Grow Up,” spoke about how music can be used to connect with people despite Alzheimer’s. “The way music can open up conversations about Alzheimer’s is by, I think, by writing about it, writing songs about it,” the punk icon said....
That club also produced a young Portuguese left back who took an unlikely detour through Akron, Ohio, and now Los Angeles, to make that dream a reality. The first player chosen in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft, Moutinho flashed his considerable talent at the MLS combine in January, but the consensus sentiment back then was that the 20-year-old fullback would need some time to adapt to the pro level, and probably wouldn’t play much as a rookie....
Last month’s shortfall pulled the average monthly job growth down to 143,000 for 2019. A year ago the monthly growth averaged about 208,000 jobs each month. That’s a decline of nearly 30 percent. Economists and financial analysts have worried publicly about the possibility of a forthcoming economic downturn, particularly since the yield curve inverted last month, and a steady decline in job growth doesn’t do much to alleviate their fears....
Biden confirmed that a North Korean launch believed to have involved a short-range ballistic missile system late Wednesday constituted a violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions imposing restrictions on the nuclear-armed nation’s arsenal. The launch followed an earlier short-range cruise missile firing over the weekend that he described Tuesday as “business as usual” as it did not run counter to the resolutions against North Korea. The president said the U....
The nomination of Chad Meredith, a conservative, appears to be the result of a deal brokered with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday. In exchange, McConnell, who represents Kentucky, had apparently agreed to not hold up Biden’s other federal nominations in the Senate. The report comes as Biden faces growing calls to take sweeping action to help women access abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v....
The former president has launched blistering attacks against his successor in statements this week. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was originally proposed under the Trump administration, but has since been carried out during Biden’s tenure. Questions have been raised over how this has been handled following the Taliban entering Kabul on Sunday. Trump has spearheaded criticism of the way the situation has been handled under Biden. A Newsmax article, shared by Trump’s chief spokesperson Liz Harrington, reports he will continue to focus on Afghanistan during a rally on Saturday in Alabama....
In the speech—delivered one day shy of his 100th day in office—Biden touted his American Jobs Plan. He encouraged out-of-work Americans to partake in the $2 million plan’s newly created jobs in infrastructure rebuilding and caregiving. Biden also mentioned his administration’s legislative agenda. This included his higher capital gains tax; a comprehensive immigration reform bill; expanded voting, LGBTQ, healthcare and women’s rights; addressing climate change; racial justice reform and other efforts....
The party’s majority in the House is slight, and in the Senate only obtained by Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaker vote. With that said, there is close to no room for defeat come 2022—but at present, there are several signals the party might suffer. Biden’s Approval Woes President Joe Biden’s approval has trailed off, with indications that the public perception of him is tied to that of his party....
A reporter asked the president if West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin had broken his word by announcing he will oppose the plan in its current form. “I’ve told you before that some people think maybe I’m not Irish because I don’t hold a grudge. Look, I want to get things done. I still think there’s a possibility of getting Build Back Better done,” Biden answered. “You saw what happened yesterday....
Biden’s comments came during the 2020 Iowa Brown & Black Presidential Forum on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday. During the forum, eight presidential candidates took questions from VICE News about their campaigns, policies and electability. “He is not leading me [with] black voters under the age [of 35],” Biden claimed, when asked why he thought Sanders was drawing more support from the younger black community. “Look, all I know is I’m leading everybody combined with black voters,” he said....
“The increase in real GDP reflected increases in private inventory investment, consumer spending, federal government spending, state and local government spending, and nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by decreases in residential fixed investment and exports,” the BEA said. The latest GDP figures will be seen as good news for President Joe Biden as inflation has continued to decrease, unemployment remains low and he prepares to give a major speech on the economy on Thursday....
Biden’s lead against Trump is up by five points since July and now stands at 55-40. But Biden is not the only Democratic candidate with a strong lead over Trump among 2020 voters, according to the poll by Langer Research Associates. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, leads Trump by nine points, 52-43, up from a one-point lead back in July. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, of Massachusetts and California respectively, both hold seven-point leads over Trump (51-44 and 50-43)....
New polling by CBS News/YouGov released on Sunday showed Biden ahead of Trump by 3 percentage points, backed by 47 percent of Arizona’s voters compared to 44 percent who support the incumbent Republican president. The survey also showed that by double digits, Arizona voters see Biden as a better leader to guide the country through the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic—with 50 percent saying the Democratic nominee would better handle the crisis and only 37 percent saying the same of Trump....
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) will lead the introduction of the legislation while two members of Nadler’s committee, representatives Hank Johnson of Georgia and Mondaire Jones of New York, will be co-sponsors. The move has once again put the spotlight on President Joe Biden who has previously expressed opposition to so-called “court-packing,” but recently announced the creation of a commission to examine potential reform of the court....
The annualized rate of inflation last month was 7.1 percent, down from 7.7 percent in October in what may be seen as another indication that U.S. inflation has peaked after previously reaching an almost 40-year high. The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI) rose by 0.1 percent month-on-month in another fall since October, when prices rose 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The monthly rise in September was also 0....
“Nearly 100,000 lives have been lost, and tens of millions are out of work. Meanwhile, the president spent his day golfing,” Biden wrote on Twitter alongside the 30-second clip, which has been viewed more than 1.6 million times since. The ad spliced footage of healthcare workers on the front line of the pandemic with clips of Trump on the course at his private Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia....
The budget proposes that all households worth more than $100 million pay at least 20 percent in taxes on both income and “unrealized appreciation”—the increase in an unsold investment’s value. “The Billionaire Minimum Tax is fair, and it raises $360 billion that can be used to lower costs for families and cut the deficit,” Biden said at a press conference on Monday. The proposal is a bid to reform what the White House described as a tax code “that has rewarded wealth, not work, and contributed to growing income and wealth inequality in America....
While the president has vowed to “hunt” those responsible for the attack, the situation in Afghanistan appears to have affected Biden’s already declining approval rating. Poll tracker FiveThirtyEight, which tracks Biden’s popularity based on analysis of a wide range of polls and its own system of pollster ratings, shows that the president’s approval stood at 47.2 percent on Thursday. The president’s disapproval now stands at 47 percent and could rise further ahead of the August 31 deadline for the final withdrawal of U....
