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Congress has passed a two-day stopgap spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend
December 18, 2020 -
President-elect Joe Biden is nominating his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of Transportation and intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as Energy secretary.
December 15, 2020 -
Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, is departing amid lingering tension over the president’s baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son
December 15, 2020 -
U.S. government agencies and private companies rushed Monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage intrusion suspected of being carried out by Russian hackers
December 14, 2020 -
President Donald Trump has signed a temporary government-wide funding bill into law, averting a federal shutdown at midnight and buying Congress time for on-again, off-again talks on COVID-19 aid
December 11, 2020 -
Lawmakers are embracing a one-week extension of government funding to buy time for more COVID-19 relief talks
December 09, 2020 -
President-elect Joe Biden is making his case for retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to be secretary of defense, urging Congress to waive a legal prohibition against a recently serving military officer running the Pentagon
December 08, 2020 -
With unemployment still high and a new economic slump possible this winter, President-elect Joe Biden has announced a liberal team of economic advisers
November 30, 2020 -
Republican Sen_ Lindsey Graham says he thinks President Donald Trump should attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration because it would be “good for the country.”
November 30, 2020 -
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration can exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats.
November 28, 2020 -
The General Services Administration has ascertained that President-elect Joe Biden is the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election
November 23, 2020 -
President-elect Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency amid widespread concern that it became overtly politicized.
November 23, 2020 -
Social Security recipients will get a modest 1.3% cost-of living-increase in 2021, but that might be small comfort amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences for older people
October 13, 2020 -
Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided U.S. House have voted to take a government shutdown off the table this fall, giving a big, bipartisan vote to a temporary government-wide funding bill Tuesday night
September 22, 2020 -
The two blue beams known as the Tribute in Light are rising from lower Manhattan on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks
September 11, 2020