Italy on brink as furious row breaks out over how to spend €209bn of EU bailout cash

Italy: 'Corpse' lays on bathroom floor in Naples hospital Members of the coalition government have questioned Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s plans for the country’s economic recovery after the pandemic eases. Mr Conte faces a huge challenge in convincing the centre-left Democratic Party and anti-establishment Five Star Movement to back his spending strategy. Former prime minister Matteo Renzi, who quit the […]

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Counting Continues in Georgia Senate Races: Election Update

Ballot counting continued Wednesday in the Georgia runoff races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate, as Democrats won one contest and the other was essentially in a dead heat. Other developments: Democrats’ Senate Bid Hangs in Balance After First Georgia Win Turnout Hits Historic Highs in Contentious Georgia Senate Races Trump Fractures GOP With No-Holds-Barred Bid to Subvert […]

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Hong Kong Arrests Dozens Under Security Law In Biggest Sweep Yet

Hong Kong democracy activists and opposition politicians were among dozens of people taken into custody on suspicion of violating the city’s controversial national security law, in what appeared to be the largest roundup yet under the China-imposed legislation. Former lawmakers Alvin Yeung, James To, Andrew Wan and Lam Cheuk-ting were arrested Wednesday morning by the police’s national security branch on […]

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Kenosha Police Officer Avoids Charges in Jacob Blake Shooting

Track the forces driving change. Sign up for the Bloomberg Equality newsletter here. The Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times won’t face criminal charges, District Attorney Michael Graveley said. ”If you do not have a case you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt as you’re going to hear me talk about, then you’re […]

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Says GOP Should Denounce Trump's Attacks on Election: 'Stupid, Crazy and Evil'

Arnold Schwarzenegger has had enough of what he described as President Donald Trump’s "un-American bull—-." In a new op-ed published Tuesday by The Economist, the Terminator star and former California governor slams Trump for peddling baseless conspiracy theories in an effort to maintain political power. Schwarzenegger, 73, calls on lawmakers from both parties to denounce Trump, 74, and his efforts […]

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Sen. Ron Johnson vows to investigate 2020 election results if GOP keeps Senate majority

Sen. Johnson: Mainstream media, Democrats want to sweep ‘legitimate’ election concerns under the rug Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson says he refuses to dismiss legitimate concerns about 2020 election irregularities as Congress meets to certify the Electoral College vote. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., one of several GOP senators who will not vote to certify the 2020 presidential election results, told […]

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Georgia Makes History With Runoffs Deciding Senate, Biden Agenda

In this article Georgia voters will determine control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s twin runoff elections amid record-breaking turnout and intense national interest including visits from the outgoing and incoming presidents in the final hours. The two Georgia runoffs were nationalized campaigns from the start. Fighting for party control of the Senate was huge enough. But against the backdrop […]

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A federal judge in Atlanta denied a last-minute effort by Trump to decertify Biden’s victory in Georgia.

A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday denied a last-minute effort by President Trump to decertify Georgia’s election results, handing the president yet another courtroom loss just one day before Congress is scheduled to bring the presidential race to an official end. The ruling from the bench by Judge Mark H. Cohen denying the emergency petition brought the number of […]

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