Politics

The U.S. Senate will grapple on Tuesday with whether to increase payments to Americans reeling from the COVID19 pandemic and override President Donald Trump's veto of a $740 billion defense bill, two measures set to lapse if lawmakers fail to act before a...

An unusual battle in Congress over President Donald Trump's demand for $2,000 coronavirus aid checks for Americans shifts on Tuesday to the Senate, where Republicans opposed to higher spending are under pressure to approve the additional relief.

A federal judge on Monday ordered two Georgia counties to reverse a decision removing thousands of voters from the rolls ahead of Jan. 5 runoff elections that will determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate.

Rajinikanth said 'Rajini Makkal Mandram' will continue to work with people and he requested members, public as well as his fans to forgive him.

The Democraticled U.S. House of Representatives voted 275134 to meet President Donald Trump's demand for $2,000 COVID19 relief checks on Monday, sending the measure on to an uncertain future in the Republicancontrolled Senate.

Dropping his objections, President Donald Trump has signed a $2 trillionplus COVID19 and annual federal spending package into law. But Congress returns Monday to confront the White House on remaining priorities in a rare endofsession showdown. The House i...

Sanjay's wife, Varsha Raut, was on Sunday asked to appear before the federal agency in Mumbai on December 29 in the PMC Bank money laundering case.

Addressing the party officials, Priyanka said that the carrying out the process of organisation building is their primary responsibility.

Two media outlets and several nongovernmental groups said Wednesday that their offices apparently were confiscated by the government of President Daniel Ortega, with placards were posted at the properties reading Property of the Health Ministry.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued pardons and sentence commutations for 29 people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his soninlaw.

As the first round of COVID19 vaccinations trickled out across the United States, many members of Congress lined up at the Capitol physician's office to get inoculated.

Oil prices firmed on Wednesday supported by a weaker dollar, but an unexpected rise in U.S. crude oil inventories capped gains.

The first notice was issued to state BJP General Secretary Sayantan Basu for speaking against the induction of TMC MLA Jitendra Tiwari into the BJP.

The U.S. economy grew at a record pace in the third quarter, fueled by more than $3 trillion in pandemic relief, the government confirmed on Tuesday, but appears to have lost momentum as the year drew to an end amid raging new COVID19 cases and dwindling...

The year-end spending bill before Congress would restore prisoners' eligibility for federal Pell grants for college, simplify the form used to apply for student aid and erase more than $1 billion in federal debt for historically Black colleges, among an a...

Unveiling his party's seven-point 'Governance and Economic Agenda', Haasan also said people below the poverty line would be taken to 'prosperity line'.