The Daily Populous

Despite support for the stimulus checks from President Donald Trump, House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all but rejected the idea.

During his Monday remarks, Biden asserted that incumbent Georgia senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue would block the $2,000 stimulus checks from going out.

And if you send Senators Perdue and Loeffler back to Washington, those checks will never get there. »

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., ran a paid Facebook ad last week that artificially darkened the skin color of her Democratic opponent, the Rev.

According to the Facebook Ad Library, on Dec. 29 the Loeffler campaign spent between $3,000 and $3,500 on an ad called "Too Radical.

Too Corrupt," and dropped between $40,000 and $45,000 on a second, more aggressive counterpart titled "Beyond Radical Raphael," which uses some of the same footage, but with Warnock's skin noticeably darkened. »

Boris Johnson has announced a new national lockdown for England - with people instructed to "stay at home" as they did during last March's first shutdown.

It is expected the new lockdown in England - the third time a national shutdown has been introduced - will last until the middle of February.

Image: England is entering a third national lockdown. »

Sturgeon told MSPs she was now more alarmed about the threat posed by Covid-19 than she had been since March.

“Today’s case numbers - 1,905 new cases, with 15% of tests being positive - illustrate the severity and urgency of the situation.”.

The new tougher measures would come into effect across mainland Scotland, which is already under the toughest tier of Scotland’s alert system, level 4. »