Joe Biden

The president plans to sign orders to improve voter rights on the 56th anniversary of a peaceful protest that turned violent in Selma, Alabama.

The Senate’s Covid relief bill lowered enhanced federal unemployment benefits to $300 per week and excludes a plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a high-level press conference that the U.S. needs to stop interfering in what Beijing considers its domestic affairs.

The barn that burned down in Reedsville, Mifflin County, was painted in support of President Joe Biden’s campaign. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.

President Joe Biden has two seats to fill on the influential appeals court in the nation’s capital that regularly feeds judges to the Supreme Court

The Democratic-led House now plans to vote on the Senate legislation Tuesday so that President Joe Biden can sign it into law early in the week.

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.

Democrats are rushing to extend jobless benefits by March 14, when aid would lapse for millions. There will likely be a gap even if Congress meets the deadline.

If you’re one of the millions of Americans financially struggling because of the pandemic, there’s more stimulus relief coming. How to best spend the aid.

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

The Senate approved a bill that would increase oversight on Confucius Institutes, China-funded cultural centers that operate on university campuses.

Virginia finalizing its legalization of marijuana, while other states are calling for similar measures.

The warning comes two months after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, when supporters of President Donald Trump disrupted confirmation of Joe Biden’s election

The U.S. and EU have agreed to suspend billions of dollars in tariffs in hopes of resolving a 17-year-old dispute over government subsidies.

Sen. Ron Wyden, who leads the Senate Finance Committee, wants Biden’s infrastructure bill to cut tax breaks for the energy industry.

Books by Dr. Seuss have flooded Amazon’s U.S. bestseller list after it was announced six of the author’s publications were being pulled over racist imagery. 

While the bill does not itself include student debt forgiveness, the provision may be a sign that debt forgiveness is a serious priority on the horizon. 

Swalwell’s suit accuses Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and GOP Rep. Mo Brooks of being “wholly responsible” for the deadly Capitol invasion.

More than 4 million Americans are long-term unemployed, according to the February jobs report. Their jobless benefits are set to end after March 14.

President Joe Biden on Friday signaled support to replace decades-old authorizations for the use of military force in the Middle East, a little more than a week after he relied on the authorizations to carry out a retaliatory airstrike in eastern Syria