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The Federal Reserve must reckon with its contributions to the problem of black unemployment and take responsibility towards crafting the solution, write Rep. Ayanna Pressley and David Stein.

Senate GOP lawmakers, angered by the administration's position, are pushing back and trying to keep the money for testing and tracing in the bill, two Republican sources told NBC News.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he does not expect a coronavirus relief bill to pass this month as a key benefit is set to expire.

The former vice president announced his plan to subsidize the high cost of child care for working families, fund universal preschool and provide $450 billion to expand community-based and in-home care for the elderly and disabled.

The crumbling relationship between Washington and Beijing has intensified following an attempt from the world's two largest economies to mend trade relations.

The tweet from the president appearing to endorse the use of face coverings in public follows months of mixed messages on whether he believed they were an essential tool to help prevent transmission of the disease.

"I will end the Muslim ban on day one," Biden said, adding that he would work with Congress to pass hate crimes legislation.

Democratic leaders are warning that Congress is being targeted by a foreign interference campaign geared toward disrupting November's presidential election.

Congress is working on a tight timeline to pass another coronavirus relief bill as key unemployment insurance is set to expire.

"I think mail-in voting is going to rig the election," Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday. "I really do."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Trump will leave the White House if he loses to Joe Biden, regardless of Trump's refusal to commit to respecting election results.

The briefings from the coronavirus task force, once a near-daily occurrence, had been largely scrapped for nearly three months.

The U.K. has suspended its extradition treaty with Hong Kong amid rising tensions with China over its new national security law in the former British colony.

The justices denied a request from Democratic-led committees to finalize the court's ruling that blocked the enforcement of their subpoenas.

House Democrats on Sunday called for an immediate investigation into reports that federal law enforcement agents have unlawfully arrested protestors in Portland, Oregon in recent days.

Color of Change, a Black Lives Matter partner, has been waging their own war on racial inequality for over a decade, working as a change maker within the spheres of culture and media representation of Black people and experiences.

Lewis, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, became a leader in the Freedom Riders fight against segregation and later a 17-term congressman from Georgia.

President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Bar have been criticized for federal law enforcement violently clearing Lafayette Square of people protesting on the heels of George Floyd's killing.

President Donald Trump's properties have made over $17 million from the Trump campaign and his joint fundraising committees since 2016.

The 87-year-old justice said she began a course of chemotherapy in May to treat a recurrence of cancer after a February scan revealed lesions on her liver.