“If a writer pitched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life story to a Hollywood producer as a movie, it would likely be rejected as simply too impossible to believe,” Dean Obeidallah wrote recently at Salon.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) on Sunday said that reevaluating how the U.S. government and society function could be the "silver lining" to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. 
The New York Times recently obtained a "blunt memo" circulated by a departing "career economist" at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) alleging questionable "maneuvers" by Trump-appointed officials. The Times report on the memo does not discuss the apparent ideological motivations of the memo's author. 
Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath (D.) has put near-identical ads attacking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on local Kentucky TV stations and on MSNBC—only the MSNBC ads don't mention "Kentucky." 
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Sunday claimed that President Donald Trump's travel restrictions on China did not do enough to prevent people from traveling to the United States. 
By Susan Cornwell, Patricia Zengerle and Lisa Lambert
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Sunday that small businesses seeking funding from a coronavirus-relief lending program will receive it in a "timely fashion," after reports showed the funds dried up Thursday. 
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Idaho on Wednesday announced it's legal action in response to the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, a recent law that would make Idaho the first state to ban students born male from participating in all-female sports. 
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R., Ky.) effort to provide additional aid for small businesses in the latest coronavirus relief bill is a "political stunt," two Senate Democrats said Thursday. 
Idaho governor Brad Little (R.) on Monday signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act to prohibit biologically male students from participating in all-female sports. 