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Senate Democrats struck a deal Friday evening to extend unemployment insurance in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package after deliberating for most of the…

A panel appointed by Congress to review security measures at the Capitol is recommending several changes, including mobile fencing and a bigger Capitol police force,…

Texas has thawed out after an Arctic freeze last month threw the state into a power crisis. But the financial turmoil from power grid shock…

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce revealed Friday it won’t withhold political donations from lawmakers who simply voted against certifying the presidential election results and instead…

The Centers for Disease Control is allowing shelters handling child migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border to expand to full capacity, abandoning a requirement they…

Eight Democratic senators on Friday voted against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ amendment to ignore a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian and add a $15 minimum wage…

Easing mask restrictions and on-site dining have increased COVID-19 cases and deaths, according to a study out Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and…

Vaccines: U.S. ahead of pace on vaccines — Public desire for vaccine increases to 69%, but with partisan divide — The rise of vaccine passports….

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has requested a meeting with President Biden to discuss the rising numbers of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico…

69% of the public intends to get a COVID vaccine or already has, up significantly from 60% in November, according to a report out Friday…

China’s highly anticipated 5-year plan revealed on Friday provides little new information about its climate initiatives, leaving plenty to discuss in multinational meetings this year…

The economy added 379,000 jobs in February, while the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2% from 6.3%, the Labor Department said on Friday. Why it matters:…

This week’s spate of data highlighted the difficulties Americans who have lost their jobs have had bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic, and just how…

The FBI on Thursday arrested former State Department aide Federico Klein, a Trump appointee who worked on the former president’s 2016 campaign, on charges related…

Just over a month into his presidency, President Biden is staring down a mounting crisis at the border that could be just as bad as…

Vaccine passports were touted early in the pandemic as an important piece of the plan to get people back to normal life. Now they’re becoming…

Americans who are highly motivated to get vaccinated are traveling across state lines after hearing about larger vaccine supplies or loopholes in sign-up systems. Why…

The world’s maritime industry — from ferries to freighters — is trying to navigate a once-in-a-century transition away from fossil fuels to new, cleaner means…

The Senate on Thursday voted 51-50 — with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie — to proceed to debate on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s advisers successfully pushed state health officials to exclude certain data on the number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths from a…

An outspoken progressive Democrat is wary of President Biden’s approach to the Middle East, arguing it’s like “conceding defeat of the aspiration” to win a…