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Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, Epidemics -- United States, Domestic economic assistance -- Access control, and Domestic economic assistance -- Laws, regulations and rules

WASHINGTON -- Lead Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost US$1-trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and [...]

Antitrust issue, Company legal issue, United States. Congress -- Investigations, United States. Congress -- Officials and employees, Antitrust law -- Investigations, High technology industry -- Officials and employees, and High technology industry -- Investigations

SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Lead Four of Silicon Valley's most powerful executives are set to testify before a congressional antitrust inquiry Wednesday in a political showdown that marks [...]

Continental Congress -- Powers and duties, Continental Congress -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, American Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, United States history -- Revolution, 1775-1783, United States history -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, and Declaration of Independence (Declaration) -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations

Lead If the 16-month-old Revolutionary War didn't give the British an inkling that the American colonies were unhappy, the Declaration of Independence certainly did. Drafted by a committee [...]

Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Economic policy, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, and Epidemics -- United States

Lead Congress delivered a nearly US$500-billion infusion of coronavirus spending Thursday, rushing new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed [...]

United States. Congress -- Economic policy, Epidemics -- Economic aspects, Epidemics -- United States, Fiscal policy, and Domestic economic assistance

WASHINGTON -- Lead Congress is pressing ahead with a US$2-trillion economic rescue package aimed at easing the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the largest single piece of [...]

Market trend/market analysis, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Republican Party (United States) -- Membership, and Democratic Party (United States) -- Membership

WASHINGTON -- Lead The U.S. election scrambled seats in the House and Senate, but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big changes [...]

Stock market, Market trend/market analysis, United States. Congress -- Tax policy, Stock markets -- Forecasts and trends, Presidential elections (United States) -- Forecasts and trends, and Stock price indexes -- Evaluation

Lead Heading into the U.S. presidential election, markets loathed the idea of uncertain results and gridlocked leadership. Now, they love it. Financial markets shrugged off the [...]

Government regulation, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, Impeachments -- Laws, regulations and rules, and Impeachments -- Political aspects

Lead The United States Congress never hurries. It moves slowly, deliberately, cautiously. It has little peripheral vision. It is not a multitasker. Still, as American humorist Will Rogers [...]

Political issue, United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, and Impeachments

Lead U.S. Congressman who represents Massachusetts's 6th district and is a member of the Democratic Party. During the attack he was locked down in his office. [...]

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Lead Canadian business leaders are preparing to navigate political gridlock south of the border, with the U.S. Congress appearing to split between the Democrats and Republicans, [...]

United States. Congress -- Powers and duties, U.S. Capitol Insurrection, 2021, Riots -- Political aspects, United States Capitol -- Appreciation, and United States Capitol -- Political aspects

Lead Former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of U.S. politics. He teaches at McGill's Max Bell School of Public [...]

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SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Lead When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went before the U.S. Congress for the first time two years ago, his response to an octogenarian senator [...]

NEW YORK -- Lead Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, [...]

Company legal issue, Obstruction of justice -- Investigations, and Presidential elections (United States) -- Investigations

WASHINGTON -- Impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump are becoming increasingly likely amid reports special counsel Robert Mueller has uncovered evidence of collusion between the President's campaign [...]

Federal privacy regulators are under scrutiny in the U.S. Congress as they negotiate a record fine with Facebook Inc. to punish the company for alleged violations of its users' privacy. [...]

Investors seeking to profit from the cannabis boom might want to look to the United States, where legalization of marijuana is gaining momentum. Canada legalized cannabis nationally this [...]

Border security -- Political aspects and Executive-legislative relations -- Political aspects

Here's the view through the looking glass of American politics: Donald Trump, who in a volatile presidential campaign and through two years of Washington tumult reversed many of the assumptions [...]

WASHINGTON -- A new U.S. Congress, including a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, takes power on Thursday as a federal government shutdown reaches its 12th day. The standoff between [...]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump is vowing to 'terminate' the original NAFTA to increase pressure on Congress to approve the U.S.Mexico-Canada Agreement set to replace it. Mr. [...]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that parts of the federal government will stay closed until Democrats agree to put up more walls along the U.S.-Mexico border to [...]