"I truly and deeply apologize for it. I feel awful about it, and frankly, I am embarrassed by it," NY Gov. Cuomo says about recent sexual harassment allegations.
"I'm not going to resign," NY Gov. Cuomo says about calls to resign after multiple women came forward and accused him of sexual harassment.
"I do not believe I have ever done anything in my public career that I am ashamed of. I didn't know I was making her uncomfortable at the time. I feel badly that I did and I'm going to learn from it," NY Gov. Cuomo says.
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BREAKING: US House votes 220-212 to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act; bill moves to Senate.
Legislation aims to establish a national standard for operation of police depts.; mandate data collection on encounters; invest in community-based policing programs; streamline federal law to prosecute excessive force; establish independent prosecutors for police investigations.
UPDATE: Rep. Lance Gooden, the lone Republican to vote for H.R. 1280 says, he "accidentally pressed the wrong voting button and realized it too late. I have changed the official record to reflect my opposition to the partisan George Floyd Policing Act.”
President Biden marks 500,000 lives lost in the U.S. to Covid-19. msnbc.com/live
Pres. Biden: "Today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone. 500,071 dead. That's more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. That's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth."
President Biden reflects on the 500,000 lives lost to Covid-19: "We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There's no such thing. There's nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary. They span generations. Born in America, emigrated to America."
AG nominee Garland calls Jan. 6 “the most heinous attack on the Democratic processes that I have ever seen and one I never expected to see in my lifetime.”
He pledges "to give career prosecutors who are working on this matter 24/7 all the resources they could possibly require.”
AG nominee Garland says the Trump admin.'s policy of separating migrant families at the border is "shameful."
"I can't imagine anything worse than tearing parents from their children," he says.
The origins of D.C. come from our constitution, which called for a district "not exceeding 10 miles square" to be the seat of our federal government. (2/8)
Per the Constitution, the district is under the jurisdiction of Congress. It does have a mayor, but Congress can override city decisions. (3/8)