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The entertainment industry has been looking for an array of relief measures in the next coronavirus bill. At the top of the list has been an extension of the enhanced unemployment benefits which, unlike traditional jobless relief, covered independent contractors, freelancers and gig workers. Movie theaters and live entertainment venues have been pushing for an expansion of a loan program which would cover small and medium sized businesses, with a special focus on revenue losses. Local media, like newspapers and Tv stations, have been seeking language to cover a wider range of outlets under the Paycheck Protection Program. … [Read more...] about Senate Fails To Advance Slimmed Down COVID-19 Relief Bill

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is committing genocide in Xinjiang—and not just cultural genocide either. There was a time when Beijing might have been satisfied with enslaving Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities, even as it tortured them into abandoning their beliefs and swearing loyalty to the Party.[1] But that is no longer the case. Now Beijing appears intent on destroying the Uighur people. And it has rolled out a sophisticated campaign to do just that, including by systematically sterilizing Uighur women and aborting their children. … [Read more...] about ‘Mulan’: U.S. Senator Blasts Disney For “Whitewashing Genocide” In China

“I was disrespectful and I made a regrettable mistake,’ Wojnarowski said in his statement. “I’m sorry for the way I handled myself and I am reaching out immediately to Senator Hawley to apologize directly. I also need to apologize to my ESPN colleagues because I know my actions were unacceptable and should not reflect on any of them.” … [Read more...] about ESPN Suspends Star NBA Reporter Adrian Wojnarowski For Obscene Tweet To US Senator

Despite the tweets, photo ops and executive orders, Trump’s support for the military has proven to be largely conditional. As long as the troops support him, he will support them back. If they don’t, then he will attack them. In the summer of 2015, Trump responded to criticism from John McCain by questioning the veteran’s status as a war hero. “He was a war hero because he was captured,” Trump said. “I like people who weren’t captured.” Later in the campaign, after Gold Star father Khizr Khan delivered an impassioned speech calling out Trump for having “sacrificed nothing and no one,” the future president criticized Khan and his wife, whose son died in 2004 while serving overseas. … [Read more...] about Trump’s Support of the Military Comes with a Catch

“As each candidate was moving up, let’s say Marco Rubio, David Pecker would reach out to me and he would give me a list of things that he was intending to do in order to squash Ted Cruz’s or Marco Rubio’s rise, whoever was rising in the poll,” Cohen said. “That’s who became the person that we needed to knock out of the campaign, out of the race.” … [Read more...] about Michael Cohen’s Book Details Coordination By Donald Trump, National Enquirer To Vanquish Rivals