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The Democratic-held House aims to pass the bill on Tuesday before sending it to Biden for his signature.

The Senate’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package heads to the House, which hopes to pass it and send it to President Biden next week.

Donald Trump’s lawyers sent cease-and-desist letters to three of the largest GOP fundraising groups on Friday, a Trump advisor confirmed to NBC News.

The $300 per week jobless benefit will go into September, and the deal allows Democrats to move ahead with passing their Covid relief bill.

President Joe Biden is staying on message

Senate Democrats hope to pass the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill by this weekend as they try to renew unemployment aid programs.

State Department strongly condemns the increase violence against protestors in Myanmar, suggests further action is coming

A fund for victims of the late Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, has been frozen because of liquidity problems with his estate.

The House will vote this month on standalone immigration bills reintroduced Wednesday that passed in the chamber in 2019.

Under the structure, stimulus checks would end at $80,000 in income for individuals and $160,000 for joint filers.

Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, engaged in “inappropriate conduct” while serving as the top White House physician, according to a Pentagon inspector general report obtained Wednesday by NBC News. The scathing report, expected to be released later Wednesday, alleges abusive behavior toward subordinates including sexual harassment. The inspector general’s review, first reported by CNN, says Jackson drank alcohol, made sexual comments...

Focusing on the deficit provides cover for some of the most pernicious of racist dog whistles, crippling our ability to attend to public priorities and disproportionately harming the Black community.

President Joe Biden withdrew the nomination of Neera Tanden as his budget chief at her request after it appeared she had no way to win Senate confirmation.

Democrats aim to pass the $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan and get it to President Biden’s desk before unemployment benefits expire March 14.

The Kremlin has repeatedly denied having a role in the poisoning of Alexey Navalny, who has been imprisoned.

A group of Democrats want sustained direct stimulus checks and unemployment support tied to economic conditions in President Biden’s recovery plan.

Andrew Cuomo’s donors are looking to pause and reevaluate their fundraising for the New York governor amid sexual harassment allegations against him.

Biden previously said he would make Riyadh a “pariah,” but realizes Saudi Arabia’s support is important for the U.S., said Frederick Kempe of the Atlantic Council.

It was unclear which vaccine the president and the first lady received.

The House passed a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill on Friday that would extend jobless benefits to Aug. 29 and increase aid by $400 a week.