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EMILY CAMPAGNO, FOX NEWS HOST: All right, guys, that's it for us. "SPECIAL REPORT" to you. Hi, Bret. BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR (on camera): Hi, Emily. I think that was Greg Gutfeld dancing there, thank you. Good evening. Welcome to watching, I'm Bret Baier. Breaking tonight, just moments ago, the House voted to give struggling Americans $2,000 checks to replace the $600 relief checks...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following press release: The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today released the "Hyperloop Standards Desk Review," sponsored by the Department's Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT) Council. This document serves to assess the status of hyperloop standard development; begin a dialogue for future hyperloop standardization efforts; and identify stakeholder perspectives on the applicability of existing standards to domestic testing and deployment...

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) DAGEN MCDOWELL, FBN ANCHOR: Good Morning, I'm Dagen McDowell in for Maria Bartiromo. It's Thursday, December 31st, New Years Eve. Your top stories at 7:00 AM Eastern. The push for more stimulus, time running out for Congress to agree on $2,000 checks for Americans as they tried (ph) to put the focus on overriding President Trumps Defense Bill veto...

AILSA CHANG: Buried in the $900 billion COVID relief package is Medicaid restoration for thousands of Pacific Islanders living in the U.S. People from the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands qualify under a compact of free association. That compact allows citizens of those nations to legally reside here after the U.S...

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [05:30:49] CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, this is EARLY START. I'm Christine Romans. It is 30 minutes past the hour on the last day of the year. At the end of a very challenging year, it is clear some of the hardships that marred 2020 will linger well into 2021...

United States - After calling the COVID relief bill a "disgrace," President Donald Trump signed the measure on Dec. 28, extending expanded unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium, averting a government shutdown, and providing a one-year extension to Liberian DED holders. Subsumed within the $900 billion spending bill passed by Congress on Dec...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Worldwide ERC issued the following news release: On Sunday, 3 January, returning and newly elected U.S. Representatives and Senators from across the country convened in Washington, D.C. to be officially sworn in as the 117th U.S. Congress. On behalf of Worldwide ERC(R) and the over 5,400 workforce mobility professionals we represent, President and CEO Lynn Shotwell sent welcome letters to every member of the Senate and the House, as well as their key staff...

[07:00:00] JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST, NEW DAY: Senate run off races will determine in control of the U.S. Senate. Democrats need to win both. This will have a huge impact on Joe Biden's agenda as to why President-Elect Joe Biden and Donald Trump both campaigning in the state yesterday. More than 3 million people have already voted early and by mail, shattering every runoff record there...

The new U.S. Congress will convene in a joint session on Wednesday to count the Electoral College votes cast in the 2020 presidential election. It is the final step in certifying Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's victory over incumbent Republican President Donald Trump. The Electoral College met in December 2020 to vote 306 to 232 in favor of the former vice president...

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Minnesota Republican congressional representatives Michelle Fischbach and Jim Hagedorn aided in the insurrection that damaged a symbol of American democracy, our U.S. Capitol by voting to overturn the results of a free and fair election. They don't deserve to represent Minnesota. DFLers were right to call for their expulsion from Congress...

I still can't stop watching the videos. There are so many of them, each with new clues about what happened a week ago today in familiar corners of the sprawling U.S. Capitol complex. Thousands of insurrectionists outside calling for a revolution. Images of broken windows and defaced relics. My own raw footage of the chaos in the House chamber...

The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of United States v. Arthrex, Inc., et al. At issue in the consolidated set of cases is whether administrative patent judges (APJs) can be appointed by the U.S...

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes distanced himself from robocalls sent out by a Republican attorneys general group he recently led after a state legislator tweeted the source of the calls was "concerning." The recorded message urged people to attend a rally that turned into a deadly riot at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday...

WASHINGTON - A new U.S. Congress convened on Sunday in an atmosphere of political uncertainty, with Senate control undecided, a smaller Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and a Republican fight looming over presidential election results. The House began voting on the re-election of California Democrat Nancy Pelosi as speaker, a prospect made more challenging after Democrats lost 11 seats in the November elections to command a narrower 222-212 majority...

Kaiali'i Kahele was sworn in as a U.S. representative today in Washington, becoming only the second Native Hawaiian to serve in Congress. Rep. Kahele tweeted that for his swearing-in ceremony, he used the Bible of the first Native Hawaiian congressman, the late U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Akaka. Kahele replaces Rep...

[07:30:00] REP. CONOR LAMB (D-PA) (via Cisco Webex): Allow him to do that, you know. And if he did that at this moment, I think the Senate would end their recess and be back in session to hold a trial immediately. And so, I think what we are doing in the House is essentially setting it up and making it possible to remove him as quickly as possible if we learn that one additional fact that would convince the Senate to act...

WASHINGTON - Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, and now closes with a rare rebuff by Republicans of President Donald Trump. In the few days remaining, GOP senators are ignoring Trump's demand to increase COVID-19 aid checks to $2,000 and are poised to override his veto of a major defense bill, asserting traditional Republican spending and security priorities in defiance of a president who has marched the party in a different direction...

The U.S.government headed toward a chaotic last few days of the year as President Donald Trump's refusal to approve a US$2.3 trillion financial package caused millions of jobless Americans to lose benefits and threatened to shut down federal agencies due to lack of funding. Trump, who leaves office on Jan. 20 after losing November's election, came under pressure on Sunday from lawmakers on both sides to stop blocking the pandemic aid and government funding bill which was approved by Congress last week...

Joe Biden may have been sworn in as president on Wednesday and Kamala Harris as vice president. But that doesn't mean many Americans believe it was right. A new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen found only 49% of voters believe election fraud allegations were given a "fair hearing" by Congress...