Amber Phillips

A Washington Post article on Jan. 20, cited by Warren, outlined the payments Hager received, based on company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More than 2,800 of its residents have died of covid-19, and despite receiving more than $300 million in state and federal emergency aid the company said its finances are so bad that it may not be able to continue as a going concern. I would like an explanation for this unfathomable greed amidst a public health tragedy and economic crisis,” Warren wrote in a letter to Hager’s successor, Robert Fish. ” Warren wrote that funds received under the Cares Act “should not be used to line the pockets of company executives who fail to address the public health threats from the pandemic, and your company should not be seeking additional public funds while giving departing executives multimillion dollar bonuses.

This is probably the most important presidency in my lifetime,” said Joe Johnson, 58, an Air Force veteran and gym owner in Nashville who is fiscally conservative and considers himself a political independent. She is relieved that Trump no longer has access to nuclear weapons, but she worries that the violence seen at the U.S. Capitol will only continue and worsen in the weeks ahead because Trump’s supporters are numerous and unlikely to change their outlook. Guardiola put off making plans for Wednesday — which he called the “Bogus Inauguration That May Never Take Place” — but when Trump announced that he would travel to Mar-a-Lago, Guardiola made plans to greet him once again. He held out hope that “divine intervention takes place this Wednesday ... and Sleepy Joe never puts his left hand on our ever-sacred Holy Bible.” Some Biden supporters were equally vague in their hopes for the next four years, just wanting anything but Trump.

In back-to-back rallies in the Midwest states that helped deliver him the presidency in 2016, Trump continued to dismiss the rise of coronavirus cases as a media construct and resurfaced a baseless allegation that doctors were profiting off the pandemic. At his first rally in Michigan, Trump said U. S. doctors were overcounting covid-19 fatalities, claiming that they make more money that way. Attacking Biden for wanting stricter safety restrictions to reduce the virus’s spread, Trump said, “Joe Biden wants to keep everyone locked up, even young Americans who are at extremely low risk from the virus. A bit later, while promising that vaccines will be “out very, very soon,” Trump looked at the sky and in a begging voice said, “I just want a normal life.

Flooding has devastated mountainous areas in France’s southeastern region of Alpes-Maritimes and Italy’s northwestern regions of Liguria and Piedmont, after a storm swept through the two countries on Friday and Saturday. In France, firefighters in the Alpes-Maritimes region were still searching Monday for at least eight people missing who witnesses described as possibly being carried off by floodwaters. French rescuers on Sunday found the body of a man whose car had been washed away by a torrent in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, one of the hardest-hit villages, where several houses and a bridge were destroyed by raging water. Italy’s finance minister, Roberto Gualtieri, told RAI state television that recovery funds for economic damage from the pandemic should also go to the environment, adding ‘’there will be additional investments.