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The bipartisan proposal from Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Ben Sasse, Cory Booker and Tim Scott aims to help workers who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic get new skills training.

Pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country saw a fundraising slide during the peak of the coronavirus lockdown and while the Biden campaign pushed donors to give to another group.

The Treasury Secretary said a furloughed worker who gets a job offer would be ineligible for unemployment benefits. But that's not always the case, experts said.

The Ukraine gas company Burisma and its connection to Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden were central issues in President Trump's impeachment.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar and other lawmakers say a combination of Uber Eats and Grubhub "would combine two of the three largest food delivery application providers and raise serious competition issues in many markets around the country."

President Trump threatened to withhold funding from Michigan for expanding its mail-in voting services in an effort to avoid crowded polling centers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Inspector General Steve Linick was fired late Friday night at Pompeo's urging by Trump, who said in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he lost "confidence" in the watchdog without further explanation.

Voters in swing states are sharply divided along partisan lines over the coronavirus pandemic with just six months to go before Election Day, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.

Former national security advisor Michael Flynn is asking a federal appeals court to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss the criminal case, and take the case away from the lower court judge.

The coronavirus outbreak has indefinitely delayed the planned extradition of fallen movie mogul Harvey Weinstein from a New York prison to face rape and other sex crime charges in Los Angeles.

The CBO also projects 26 million more unemployed Americans than there were at the end of 2019.

Ford Motor Company says its policy requires President Donald Trump to wear a mask for coronavirus precautions when he visits a factory manufacturing ventilators. So far, however, Trump has refused to wear a mask.

President Trump said a day earlier he is taking hydroxychloroquine, as well as zinc and an "original dose" of azithromycin after asking the White House physician about the drugs.

Yates allegedly claimed to have 400 employees and used a random name generator on the internet to come up with a list of purported employees.

If confirmed, Rep. John Ratcliffe will lead the nation's 17 intelligence agencies as the director of national intelligence.

Mnuchin defended the administration's track record on disbursement of money from the $2 trillion CARES Act passed by Congress to aid struggling businesses, industries and individuals.

"Liability protections would be the No. 1 thing I would look at," McCarthy told CNBC. "No bill will pass without it."

Trump said that if the WHO "does not commit to major substantive improvements within the next 30 days, I will make my temporary freeze of United States funding to the World Health Organization permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization."

Annie Glenn, the widow of astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn and a communication disorders advocate, died Tuesday of complications from Covid-19. She was 100.

Pompeo told The Washington Post that Inspector General Steve Linick "wasn't performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to," but would not provide specific examples.