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Texas started reopening its economy on May 1, and it is planning more steps to lift coronavirus restrictions even as cases steadily rise.

Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeff Sprecher and his wife, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, sold more than $1 million in stock before financial markets tanked due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The former New York mayor and his closest political advisors are discussing whether Bloomberg's expenditures will include major donations to a variety of groups.

Trump's remarks came at an event unveiling his administration's beefed-up efforts to fast-track the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

Democrats are pushing to approve a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill that Senate Republicans and the White House say they will oppose.

The White House would likely support a new round of stimulus checks, sources told CNBC on Thursday.

Since government lockdowns began, nonprofits and institutions catering to vulnerable populations have seen declines in revenues and volunteers.

The White House is preparing an executive order which will require certain essential drugs be made in the U.S.,sources told CNBC on Thursday.

President Donald Trump will ask the Supreme Court to halt a lawsuit against him brought by the state of Maryland and Washington, D.C., alleging that he has violated the Constitution's emoluments clauses, his personal attorney said Thursday.

A nonprofit run by President Donald Trump's nominee to lead a federal media agency is under investigation by the Washington, D.C., attorney general for potential self-dealing.

Burr stepped down one day after FBI agents seized his cellphone as part of a criminal investigation into his stock sales during the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

"I think it'd be a bad precedent to compel a former president to come before the congress," Graham, a close ally of Trump's, told reporters on Capitol Hill.

A spokeswoman for Sen. Richard Burr declined to comment on a report that the FBI seized his cellphone as part of a probe into stock sales he made just days before the markets tanked.

"We're making sure that as we go into the fall we're in a position where America never has to shut down again," a senior administration official said.

Chuck Schumer says Republicans should negotiate a bipartisan bill as they oppose the $3 trillion House Democratic relief plan.

Bright maintains that the U.S. missed early warning signals about the coronavirus pandemic.

Ukrainian energy company Burisma and Hunter Biden's connection to it were at the center of Democrats' push to impeach Trump.

While lawmakers proposed several plans to give essential workers hazard pay during the coronavirus pandemic, none seem close to becoming law.

Garcia's victory brings the district back into the Republican fold, after it went blue in the 2018 midterms.

Trump did not single out which specific answer from Fauci that he found unacceptable, but referenced Fauci's testimony about reopening schools in the fall.