Millions will owe an average of $5,850 in back rent and utilities next month. But the latest aid package did too little to address housing.

Telling a nation you colonized that you know what's best for them is no more progressive in this century than it was in the last two.

Into a year of unprecedented crisis and divide, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg adds more political drama, and a core question: Will President Trump be able to seat a new justice on the Supreme Court, potentially reopening landmark decisions, just weeks before the November election?

A bipartisan group of 15 senators urged Defense Secretary Mark Esper in a letter Wednesday to maintain support for Stars and Stripes, which could be forced to stop publishing by the end of the month without Defense Department funding.

After the failed talks of stimulus negotiators between the Republican and Democratic highest officials, Congress would reportedly act on the second round of the stimulus payment next month.

A proposal floated by the White House and some Republicans that would tie unemployment payouts to roughly 70% of a worker’s previous wage in a next coronavirus stimulus bill could delay jobless benefits by up to 20 weeks, a new memo reported by NPR shows, leaving around 25 million Americans relying on the payments with a drastic pay cut for a lengthy period of time.

"The cliff is totally visible in front of us": The future is grim if Congress doesn’t act on the economy. The country is ambling toward a cliff, putting millions of Americans’ lives and livelihoods in danger and all but ensuring prolonged economic distress nationwide. It didn’t have to be this way. Yet here we are, unable to shake out of it.

Inequality in the US explodes. Donald Trump's response to Covid-19 has been great for corporations and the one-percenters, not so good for Americans, writes @DavidCayJ.

The House on Friday narrowly passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package crafted by Democrats that would include another round of stimulus payments of up to $1,200 per person. President Donald Trump this week declared the Democrats' proposal "DOA." Similar to the first major coronavirus aid package signed into law in late March, the 1,815-page HEROES Act would provide up to $1,200 in payments (or $2,400 for married couples)...

The U.S. government has now pledged almost US$3 trillion to save the economy and Americans from the coronavirus recession. Most of that is aimed at individual Americans in the form of additional unemployment insurance or the so-called economic impact checks. About $1.2 trillion – and counting – represent bailouts for American companies, large and small.

At one point in her now-infamous interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN Wednesday, Cooper asked Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman what she, as mayor, was doing to make testing and tracing widely available to her city. Goodman was pleased to answer promptly: Having self-diagnosed herself with the coronavirus in January, she knew it was her… Continue Reading Dear America, please don’t hold her against us

From songwriters to producers to roadies, individuals in the various corners of the music business will be eligible for federal relief under the coronavirus stimulus package passed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday evening, thanks to music advocates in Washington in the last few days.

The 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to actually make this happen. The U.S. Constitution is famously short—a mere 7,591 words, including its 27 amendments. That makes it all the more remarkable that 110 of those words have been, in effect, lost to the ages.

Mitt Romney broke with Republicans and voted to remove the president.

Senate Republicans can theoretically control President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. But there’s one thing they have no power over: Trump’s itchy Twitter fingers. And Senate Republicans, who loathe the president’s tweeting, are hoping that when impeachment comes to the Senate, Trump will do something out of character: Stay quiet.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Tuesday approved the largest overhaul to the American military’s housing program in more than two decades, vowing to end slum-like living conditions and hold private landlords and defense officials accountable for them.

You would think the US military would have the ability to fix its equipment any time it wants, it any manner it wants. According to a US military procurement officer, you'd be wrong. Right-to-repair apparently resonates with the military, too.

Curated all publicly available documents related to Congress’s impeachment inquiry concerning President Donald Trump and Ukraine.

Republicans may argue Trump’s actions were not impeachable – but scholars say it’s a solid example of a high crime.

Rep. Josh Harder, a rookie Democratic congressman, wants his colleagues to award $7 million to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife over five years to combat the spread of nutria, large semi-aquatic rodents that wreak havoc on wetlands in his district.