Politics

Back when the election was tightening and just a week away, Joe Biden went big.

Treasury Secretary nominee Janet Yellen is calling on Congress to do more to fight a deep pandemicinduced recession, saying the threats of a longer and even worse downturn are too great to cut back on support now.

When Joe Biden entered the White House as vice president, the economy was cratering. Job losses were mounting. Stocks were crashing. Millions of Americans were in the early stages of losing their homes to foreclosure as the housing bubble burst.

Global stock markets wavered on Monday as soaring COVID19 cases offset investor hopes of a quick economic recovery, even after data showing that the Chinese economy rebounded fasterthanexpected in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Republicans are worried that a corporate backlash stirred by the deadly Capitol insurrection could crimp a vital stream of campaign cash, complicating the partys prospects of retaking the Senate in the next election.

Targeting critics, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, "On a day of hope for every Indian, all those who spread fake narratives & expressed apprehensions about India's capability to produce the vaccines can now remove their foot from the mouth & va...

Targeting critics, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted, "On a day of hope for every Indian, all those who spread fake narratives & expressed apprehensions about India's capability to produce the vaccines can now remove their foot from the mouth & va...

Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) elects a new leader on Saturday who would be in the pole position to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor after she steps down following federal elections in September.

The Supreme Court says that when a person's car has been impounded and they file for bankruptcy, the car does not have to be immediately returned.

After the Republican party spent years defending President Donald Trump's behavior, 10 Republican lawmakers decided to vote to impeach him Wednesday on charges that he incited his supporters to carry out the deadly Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

The House impeachment debate on Wednesday heard a distorted account of President Donald Trump's remarks to his supporters a week ago when he exhorted them to fight like hell" before they swarmed the Capitol.

The U.S. stock market is mostly unfazed by the political turmoil in Washington and fears of violence ahead of Presidentelect Joe Biden’s inauguration, with investors squarely focused on the probability of another sizeable stimulus package to boost economi...

U.S. consumer prices increased solidly in December amid a surge in the cost of gasoline, though underlying inflation remained tame as the economy battled a raging COVID19 pandemic, which has weighed on the labor market and the services industry.

Ivanka Trump's global women's development program is about halfway toward its goal of helping 50 million women in developing countries advance economically by 2025.

A fiery debate opened in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday over a Democraticled effort to remove President Donald Trump from office for inciting supporters who stormed the Capitol last week, while Trump denied any wrongdoing.

A second Democratic U.S. lawmaker said she had tested positive for COVID19 days after being locked down for hours with other colleagues, including Republicans who did not wear a face mask, to avoid the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol.