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A bipartisan coalition of senators is in early talks to pass another coronavirus pandemic relief package costing as much as $68 billion, a Wednesday report claimed. An early version of the legislation appears targeted primarily at businesses currently ailing as the Omicron variant continues to fuel a new wave of infections. That includes restaurants, performance venues, gyms and minor league sports teams, according to the Washington Post. The discussions in the Senate are reportedly being led by Democrat Ben Cardin of Maryland and Republican Roger Wicker of Mississippi. GOP Senator Susan Collins, as well as Democrats Mark Warner and Maria...

Despite a population that is now more prosperous and more educated by several orders of magnitude, we clearly have become more lazy.To celebrate another $1,400 in stimulus checks, a quickly withdrawn video from Wisconsin Democrats showed people dancing to a catchy rap song with captions of “$$$ IN THE POCKET” and “THANK YOU POTU$.” As Joy Pullmann noted, its release on the same day abysmal job numbers came out was a testament to Democrats’ blindness to economic reality. It also attested to our culture’s devolving expectation of something for nothing.America has definitely changed. Juxtapose that video with images from the...

CNN's Wolf Blitzer speaks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about why she has not accepted President Donald Trump's roughly $1.8 trillion stimulus offer.