A Billionaire Oil Executive Donated To Joe Biden. He Sent The Money Back

Joe Biden wants money—just not from everyone. We found that his campaign returned $2,800 from billionaire George Kaiser, who has interests worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the oil and gas industry. The Biden campaign has pledged not to accept contributions from fossil-fuel executives.

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Michela Tindera

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A Billionaire Oil Executive Donated To Joe Biden. He Sent The Money Back
 
 
 
A Billionaire Oil Executive Donated To Joe Biden. He Sent The Money Back

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Trump administration officials, led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, prodded U.S. spy agencies to dig up evidence that would substantiate the controversial theory COVID-19 originated in Wuhan laboratory, an effort that comes as President Trump — and his presidential campaign — attacks China to deflect attention away from claims his administration faltered in its handling of the outbreak.

New White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday held the White House’s first podium briefing in over 400 days, in which she defended the president’s comments that coronavirus originated in a lab in China, criticized the World Health Organization and lamented the FBI’s treatment of General Michael Flynn.

In a head-to-head matchup with President Trump, Joe Biden has led in national polls and—more importantly—polls in key battleground states. But there are five data points, on everything from the economy to voter enthusiasm, that should give the former vice president pause as he ramps up his general election machine for November.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference on Friday that New York schools will remain closed for the rest of the academic year, with around 1,000 new coronavirus cases still being diagnosed per day in the state despite a decline in the number of new infections.

Spread out tables, limited seating, and lots of hand sanitizer and masks; restaurants across Georgia were allowed to reopen and offer dine-in service on Monday after Georgia Governor Brian Kemp controversially eased the state’s social distancing restrictions.

Ahead of the expiration of Texas’ stay-at-home order Friday, the Lone Star State recorded its highest three-day death toll from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Pentagon formally released three unclassified videos Monday taken by Navy pilots of "unidentified aerial phenomena,” a step that comes after years of progress towards government transparency surrounding UFOs.

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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tested positive for coronavirus, multiple outlets reported Thursday, coming amid the country’s struggles to control the outbreak and what reports call an uninterested response from President Vladimir Putin.

For the first time since February 18, South Korea had a day with no new local COVID-19 diagnoses on Thursday, a result of an aggressive strategy for handling the outbreak which included mass rapid testing and comprehensive digitally-enabled contact tracing.

Nearly two weeks after Canada's deadliest mass shooting, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a ban Friday not only on assault-style weapons sales but possession, with owners needing to relinquish their assault weapons within two years.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has called on China to join an investigation into the origins of the new coronavirus, in efforts to establish greater transparency and an “early warning” system in the event of future viruses.

Greece, one of the world’s most-loved travel destinations, is looking to reopen to tourists from July as it hopes to restart a pillar of its economy that has been battered by coronavirus restrictions.

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