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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — President Joe Biden is set to meet on Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed $618 billion in coronavirus relief – about a third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking as congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support. The Republicans propose slimmer benefits, including $1,000 in […]

President Joe Biden is set to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking in coronavirus aid, though congressional Democrats are poised to move ahead without Republican support.

More than two dozen U.S. Republican senators have requested to meet with Democratic President Joe Biden to discuss the new administration’s executive orders and regulatory actions targeting the domestic energy sector.

Actress Tanya Roberts — who was best known for playing a Bond girl in “A View to a Kill” and Midge Pinciotti on “That ’70s Show” — has died at the age of 65, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Over the weekend, Congress came to terms on a COVID-19 relief bill. The House is set to vote on this deal in the evening Monday. “We’ve been working for quite some time to get to this point,” Virginia Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger said. Spanberger says it’s about time Congress agreed on a […]

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill say they are close to a COVID-19 relief deal. “It encapsulates a lot of the common ground areas that we’ve been trying to get more relief for,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) said. Capito says the support for schools, unemployment, and state and local governments, makes this […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Services Administration has ascertained that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election, clearing the way for the start of the transition from President Donald Trump’s administration. An official said Administrator Emily Murphy made the determination after Trump efforts to subvert the vote failed across battleground […]

ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — Danny Rice has a good sense of how dangerous the coronavirus can be. What puzzles him are the people who have curtailed so much of their lives to avoid being infected by the virus. “I’m not going out and looking to catch it,” he said, sitting at a cluttered desk in […]

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — With Amy Coney Barrett officially the newest justice on the Supreme Court, West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito says she will act as a role model for the country. “She understands and respects the role of a Supreme Court justice,” Capito said. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin doesn’t question Barrett’s qualifications […]

WASHINGTON (WAVY) — West Virginia Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito says Democrats are creating a plan to increase the number of justices sitting on the Supreme Court. “We have nine justices. We’ve had them for over 150 years. They’ve worked very well, I think, through liberal-leaning and conservative-leaning courts,” Capito said. Capito and other Senate […]

Social media was quick to sound off on Alley’s choice, including fellow Hollywood bigwigs.