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President Trump on Thursday touted his administration’s deregulation agenda and warned of a “dismal future” if Democrats led by presidential candidate Joe Biden defeat him. Trump cast himself as a crusader against red tape during remarks in a second-straight stump-like speech at the White House, praising his rollback of vehicle emissions standards, watershed rules and a lightbulb ban. The president said he repealed almost eight regulations for every new one, and that businesses and property owners would suffer under Biden. “The American dream would be sniffed out so quickly and replaced with a socialist disaster,” he said. Democrats want to enact the Green New Deal, either “rename” the Washington Monument or “take it down,” ̶...

A pregnant woman is fighting for her life after she was shot in the head while inside a car in Philadelphia Thursday afternoon, according to reports. The 25-year-old woman was on West Berks Street in North Philadelphia when she was blasted in the right side of her head at around 2:35 p.m., The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The victim, whose identity was not immediately released, was rushed to Temple University Hospital in extremely critical condition, according to the news outlet. The woman is four months pregnant, according to NBC10, which reported that police said the shooting may have been a domestic situation. No arrests were immediately made.

Leadership in the New York Assembly is polling members on whether they’d back the legalization of mobile sports betting, The Post has learned. The vote-counting survey comes after New York’s tax base has been decimated by the recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. Staffers for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the Democratic majority started querying rank-and-file lawmakers Thursday — just days before the Legislature reconvenes on Monday. The Democrat-run state Senate has previously supported proposals to OK app-based sports betting, while Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Heastie have been resistant to the notion. One lawmaker who got called about his position Thursday from a program staffer overseen by Heastie’s office said the impact of the pandemic on New York’s finances cha

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday unveiled a $350 billion plan he said was intended to combat “systemic racism” as lawmakers return to negotiate a new coronavirus bill. The New York Democrat’s “Economic Justice Act” contains wide-ranging infrastructure and social spending and would redirect $200 billion in unused funds from a Treasury Department coronavirus loan program established by Congress in March. “Instead of allowing hundreds of billions of dollars in government assistance to sit idly at the Treasury, Senate Democrats said they would seek to re-program these dollars during negotiations for a fourth COVID-19 bill,” Schumer’s office said. The provisions aren’t for the exclusive benefit of ra...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture has a little-known but controversial section on “whiteness” that is creating a stir on Twitter. The museum’s online description of the exhibit was tweeted out on Wednesday by Byron York, chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. “The National Museum of African American History & Culture wants to make you aware of certain signs of whiteness: Individualism, hard work, objectivity, the nuclear family, progress, respect for authority, delayed gratification, more,” York tweeted. In an Examiner opinion piece on Thursday, York pointed out the oddity of so many universally positive attributes being ascribed to “whiteness.” “Most of the attrib...

A boost in unemployment pay is about to run out for people who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic — as jobless claims pass 51 million. The $600 per week federal supplement in unemployment insurance is a flashpoint ahead of talks next week on a new coronavirus bill. Republicans including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell oppose extending the boost — though there are hints of a potential compromise. The supplement for weekly unemployment was intended to ensure most people kept the same income if they were temporarily out of work, but it officially runs out at the end of July. If it’s taken away, people would only get weekly benefits from state governments, which range from less than $250 a week in Arizona and Louisiana to over $1,200 with dependents in Massachu

A Tennessee doctor says he became severely ill with a case of coronavirus he caught from attending a meeting about how to prevent the spread of the disease, according to a report. Dr. Daniel Lewis, the chief medical officer for Greeneville Community Hospital, said he gathered with a small group of colleagues in mid-March about protocols for containing the virus, the Nashville Tennessean reported. His colleague was suffering at the time from mild cough, which they wrote off at the time as allergies, the outlet reported. But the same evening, the man developed a fever and soon Lewis also began experiencing one also, the newspaper reported. Lewis, 42, tested positive for the virus on March 30 then checked himself into the hospital two days later when his symptoms dramatically worsened,...