Politics

Officials in the District of Columbia are accustomed to being shortchanged in different ways.

Gold medalist and former Olympic executive Norm Bellingham and Olympian Eli Bremer have been named to a congressional committee to study possible reforms in America's Olympic system.

Bearing down on a midnight shutdown deadline, top negotiators on a mustpass, almost $1 trillion COVID19 economic relief package are committed to sealing an agreement Friday as they resolve remaining differences in hopes of passing the legislation this wee...

In his farewell speech to Congress on Thursday, freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham of South Carolina made it one for the road, cracking open a can of beer in a toast to his fellow members in a signoff of his brief tenure.

Actor-politician Urmila Matondkar on Wednesday said her Instagram account has been hacked, following which she has filed an FIR with Maharashtra Cyber, the state police's cyber wing. Matondkar took to Twitter to report that her Instagram profile was com...

Banerjee's reaction on ‘BJP’s poach politics’ came amid growing resentment in the TMC with several senior leaders, ministers and MLAs openly speaking up against the party leadership.

Robert Reed says he will always believe the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump. The retired police officerturnedconstruction worker believes fraud marred the vote, no matter how many courts rejected that claim. Still, a day after the Ele...

U.S. congressional leaders reported substantial progress on Tuesday after two meetings of top Democrats and Republicans to end a monthslong standoff on coronavirus relief and finalize a funding bill to avert a government shutdown.

The ruling party legislator said these media outlets published/aired the false news based on a "tweet" by actress Kangana Ranaut. Patole said appropriate action would be taken in the matter.

While Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit has asked the published not to release ‘Presidential Years’ till he went through it, his sister Sharmishtha asked him not create hurdles in the publishing of their father's last book.

Kejriwal on Sunday had asked the BJP-ruled Centre to shun "arrogance" and scrap three farm laws as demanded by agitating farmers, and bring a Bill to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for agricultural produce.

Bimal Gurung's return to the hills has been opposed by the Binoy Tamang faction of the GJM. Opposition parties maintain that with several criminal cases pending against Gurung in connection with the mayhem and arson in the hills since 2017, it was unethic...

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram also took a swipe at the government saying if it was terming the protesters Khalistanis, Maoists and agents of Pakistan and China, then why was it engaging them in talks.

"When the agricultural reforms were brought, there was opposition to this too…. There are some people who just oppose and weaken the country. This has become their nature," the agriculture minister said.

President Donald Trump, facing a midnight deadline on Friday, signed a oneweek extension of expiring federal funding to avoid a government shutdown and to provide more time for separate talks on COVID19 relief and an overarching spending bill.

Wall Street's main indexes slipped on Friday, heading for weekly losses as doubts over more economic stimulus dented sentiment, while data showing improved consumer sentiment kept losses in check.