US House Democrats Crafting New $2.2 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are working on a $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that could be voted on ne...
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US Officials: Israel, UAE to Sign Deal at White House
Israel and the United Arab Emirates will sign their historic deal normalizing relations at a White House ceremony on Sept. 15, U.S....
Warmbier’s Parents Praise Bill Seeking Further North Korea SanctionsÂ
The parents of Otto Warmbier, an American student who died after 17 months in a North Korean prison, hailed on Wednesday new congres...
Democrats Threaten to Boycott Debate Over Labor Dispute
All seven Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for next week's debate threatened on Friday to skip the event if an...
Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Combating Campus Anti-Semitism
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he signed to help combat anti-Semitism in the U. S., during a Hanukkah reception...
Trumps Signs Stopgap Spending Bill
President Trump on Thursday signed a short-term funding bill, averting the threat of a government shutdown until next month. Trump...
US House Panel Backs Marijuana Decriminalization
A divided U.S. House committee approved a proposal Wednesday to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, a vote that wa...
Pelosi Seeks Trade Pact Passage by Year’s End
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said a breakthrough in talks with the Trump administration on the trade pact with Mexico...
House Democrats Pass Election Security Bill
The House approved legislation Wednesday to better protect the country's elections from foreign interference, the third major b...
America’s Mayors Agree on What Needs Fixing
Few public officials are as close to the ground as America’s mayors and, in general, they seem to agree on what needs fixing in the...
Bipartisan Group of US Lawmakers Opposes Plan to Freeze Foreign Aid
Some material for this report came from RFE/RL. Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined forces to oppose moves by the White Hous...
