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Senior White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Friday morning that it would be "almost impossible" to execute a coronavirus relief package before the November election, even if Congress overcame a months-long impasse and struck a deal. 

After finding that the poverty rate declined in April, May and June after the federal government sent stimulus checks and increased unemployment assistance, a group of researchers say all progress has been erased as House Democrats and the White House remain in a coronavirus stimulus stalemate.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday rejected a coronavirus relief deal that costs more than $1.8 trillion, hours after President Trump signaled that he was "absolutely" willing to go higher.  

Twitter is suppressing an official press release from the House Judiciary Committee Republicans after they reposted verbatim the New York Post story that purportedly showed emails between Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, and a Ukrainian energy executive indicating that the younger Biden introduced the executive and the then-vice president.

Investors will get new data on jobless claims and manufacturing