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“I think you’ll see text today,” said Manchin. “By this evening hopefully we can start the process, hopefully start our amendment process by tomorrow. We should finish up by Thursday.”

Programs paying expanded unemployment benefits are ending nationally on Sept. 6. It doesn’t appear lawmakers will extend the deadline again.

Neither Trump nor his lawyers have said if they will challenge Friday’s order.

A historic wave of evictions could be coming. Most at risk are people of color, single mothers and those who haven’t been vaccinated yet.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Singapore and Vietnam next month to strengthen the U.S.’s relationship and economic ties with the Indo-Pacific region, the White House said on Friday.

World Health Organization officials said they are still trying to understand why the delta variant is more transmissible and potentially makes people sicker than the original coronavirus strain. “We’re really trying to get a better handle on why the delta variant is more transmissible,” said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’S technical lead on Covid-19, said at a press briefing...

Former President Donald Trump has refused for years to voluntarily disclose his income tax returns. Congress can now see them, the Justice Department said.

The CDC data published Friday was based on 469 cases of Covid associated with multiple summer events and large public gatherings in July in Massachusetts.

“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump reportedly instructed the DOJ officials.

The DOJ sued Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott to block a state order aimed at restricting the travel of undocumented migrants who could potentially transmit Covid. 

The rare protests, the largest the communist country has seen since the 1990s, come as the government struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

The main UN compound in Herat, Afghanistan was attacked by “anti-government elements” on Friday and at least one security guard was killed, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA.

In a few days, renters across the U.S. will no longer be shielded from eviction. But some states will continue to bar the proceedings.

“Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen,” Trump reportedly instructed the DOJ officials.

The procedural vote on the infrastructure bill continued Democrats’ push to pass a sweeping economic agenda.

A tech entrepreneur is investing in a digital news start-up run by veteran D.C. journalists.

“The war has changed,” CDC officials wrote in a confidential document given to lawmakers this week.

The economy has improved and lawmakers are unlikely to offer another tax break to those who collected unemployment benefits this year, experts said.

Renters will no longer be protected from eviction come August. But there’s still time to apply for federal rental assistance.

MyPillow’s Mike Lindell said he’s pulling ads from Fox News after the network said it wouldn’t take one of his commercials linked to election-fraud claims.