Politics

The No. 2 House Democrat told colleagues Thursday morning that the chamber won't adjourn for the year without delivering at least some measure of COVID19 relief, as Democrats controlling the chamber show greater flexibility after absorbing losses in last...

The number of Americans filing firsttime claims for jobless benefits fell last week, but remained extraordinarily high amid widespread business restrictions to slow a rising tide of new COVID19 infections and lack of additional fiscal stimulus.

U.S. President Donald Trump's pardoning of his former adviser Michael Flynn has fueled speculation over whether the president could pardon other associates, and even members of his family, during his final weeks in office.

European shares opened lower on Thursday after gains spurred by advances in vaccines to fight COVID19, but data across Europe underscored the economic damage still being caused by the pandemic.

His reaction comes in view of the meeting between Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to work out a solution to the farmers protest against the Centre

U.S. private payrolls increased less than expected in November as soaring new COVID19 infections led to a wave of business restrictions, adding to signs of slowing economic activity as a turbulent year winds down.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged Congress to approve COVID19 relief funds without further delay, though Democrats continued to attack a decision by Mnuchin to allow five Fed lending programs to expire duri...

The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted on Wednesday to approve the nomination of a senior Trump administration official involved in an effort to seek new social media regulations to a seat on the Federal Communications Commission.

TDP MLAs and MLCs, including Naidu's son and General Secretary Nara Lokesh, party state unit President Kinjarapu Atchannaidu, joined him at the rally on the third day of the Winter Session of the Assembly.

Gold jumped over 2% on Tuesday, rebounding from a fivemonth low in the last session, and silver soared over 5%, as the dollar slid, with U.S. stimulus bets due to mounting COVID19 cases adding to bullion's appeal as an inflation hedge.

President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify hundreds of thousands of ballots in a longshot attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's win in the battleground state he lost by nearly 20,700 votes.

Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's meeting with film personalities in Mumbai, senior Congress leader and Maharashtra PWD Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday alleged the BJP was scheming to take away a "slice of Bollywood" to the northe...

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared reluctant to block a vaguely defined plan by President Donald Trump's administration to exclude immigrants living in the United States illegally from the population totals used to allocate congre...

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the longestserving Republican senator and third in the line of presidential succession, is back in the Senate on Monday after testing positive for coronavirus two weeks ago.

World shares paused to assess a recordbusting month on Monday as the prospect of a vaccinedriven economic recovery next year and yet more free money from central banks eclipsed concerns about the coronavirus pandemic in the nearterm.

President Donald Trump's attempt to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to divvy up congressional seats is headed for a postThanksgiving Supreme Court showdown.