The founder of Black Entertainment Television said Monday that the federal government should provide $14 trillion to the descendants of slavery to combat racial inequality in America. “Now is the time to go big,” Robert Johnson said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday. “We need to focus on wealth creation and wealth generation and to do that we must bring the descendants of slaves into equality in this nation and that’s what I propose with this $14 trillion proposal.” “Wealth transfer is what’s...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled enhanced enforcement actions on Monday against nursing homes after preliminary federal data shows that at least 25,923 nursing home residents across the country have died from coronavirus. “This data, and anecdotal reports across the country, clearly show that nursing homes have been devastated by the virus,” CMS Administrator Seema Verma and Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield wrote in a letter to U.S. governors...

Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory said Tuesday it was “baffling and reprehensible” that the Saint John Paul II National Shrine would allow itself to be “manipulated” ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned visit to the memorial. Trump visited the Catholic shrine one day after he walked from the White House to St. John’s Church, which was set on fire amid protests on Sunday. U.S. Park Police cleared the way for Trump to walk to the church Monday. Numerous news outlets reported that...

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he was moving the 2020 Republican National Convention from Charlotte, North Carolina, after failing to receive assurances from Gov. Roy Cooper that the event would be able to move forward at full capacity. Multiple health experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it would be foolish to commit to holding a full convention in late August amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Packing 19,000 persons, from 50 states and DC, into an arena for four days...

A federal courthouse in Richmond, Virginia, was vandalized with a mark indicating it was designated as a target for potential arson by antifa, according to an FBI report obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The FBI report, issued Tuesday, said the graffiti was spotted one day after unidentified individuals believed to be associated with a local “anarchist/ANTIFA group” were “overheard discussing burning down the Richmond courthouse.” The Richmond Police Department seized fire...