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(Bloomberg) -- Janet Yellen was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the country’s 78th Treasury secretary and the first woman to hold the job, putting her in charge of overseeing an...

(Bloomberg) -- European Union foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell said he would travel to Moscow next week and express objections to the jailing of Russian opposition leader Alexey...

Investing.com - Watch live as Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, assuming the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. under Joe Biden is adjusting its dollar policy, giving no sign of an immediate shift on China strategy and putting a new focus on climate change. Those are...

By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com - The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted to impeach President Donald Trump, making him the first president in U.S. history to be impeached...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump came under mounting pressure Thursday after inciting a mob of protesters who stormed the U.S. Capitol -- facing calls to resign or for Vice...

(Bloomberg) -- The House is set to vote Monday to replace the $600 stimulus payments in the newly enacted pandemic relief law with the $2,000 President Donald Trump demanded -- a...

(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Joe Biden introduced members of his domestic-policy team on Friday as he works to round out his cabinet and senior White House staff before...

(Bloomberg) -- A running battle between Republicans and Democrats over the use of almost half a trillion dollars in Covid-19 aid funding is set to enter the legal field, with...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, willfully broke the law by engaging in political activity in his official capacity, the latest member of the...

(Bloomberg) -- France would veto any Brexit deal between the EU and the UK if it is considered unsatisfactory regarding French interests, its European affairs minister, Clement...

(Bloomberg) -- The Senate is set to vote Wednesday to advance the nomination of Christopher Waller to the Federal Reserve Board, but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t...

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday contended that he was required by law to move $455 billion in unspent emergency pandemic relief money into an account...

(Bloomberg) -- President-elect Joe Biden is considering Roger Ferguson, a former Federal Reserve vice chair, to be his top White House economic adviser, according to people...

(Bloomberg) -- After Donald Trump’s election in late 2016, the then-president-elect took an unprecedented phone call from Taiwan’s leader Tsai Ing-Wen, shattering decades of...

(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration abruptly removed a top official charting the U.S. government’s research on global warming, just as his agency began writing the next climate...

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election and the unresolved status of Senate control left slim prospects for a major fiscal-stimulus package before...

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden has a lot of plans for his first day as president, and some of it can actually happen in a single day -- a fair amount of which he can set in motion right...

(Bloomberg) -- It’s still early on U.S. election night, with some easy wins for both sides in the bag but many results yet to be decided. Still, investors haven’t been sitting...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are making final pitches to voters in key battleground states that likely will determine who wins the election. The...

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a letter Thursday that she’s still awaiting the administration’s response on a raft of...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden faced off for the last time before the Nov. 3 election. Bloomberg News is checking the facts behind their...

(Bloomberg) -- Russia has been targeting U.S. government agencies since at least September and may be planning more severe attacks in the days leading up to Election Day and even...

(Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will pick up discussions a stimulus package again Thursday with time running ever shorter for a deal...

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will try Wednesday to bridge remaining gaps in their talks over comprehensive coronavirus relief,...

(Bloomberg) -- After months of on-again, off-again talks on an increasingly needed fiscal-stimulus package, Tuesday is shaping up as a do-or-die moment for Treasury Secretary...

(Bloomberg) -- The fate of additional stimulus for the U.S. economy before next month’s election will be decided this week, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi setting a Tuesday...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s once-tight grip on Republican lawmakers is showing signs of slipping as he falls further behind Democrat Joe Biden, making the GOP path to...

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump plans to accuse Democratic candidate Joe Biden of wanting to cripple natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania during the president’s first visit to the...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s attempt to jolt negotiations on a new economic stimulus plan has left talks at a familiar stalemate with Republicans and well as Democrats...

(Bloomberg) -- A Democratic sweep in next month’s U.S. election would boost Asian equities, while reducing the allure of the region’s bonds, according to money managers and...

(Bloomberg) -- Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris face off Wednesday night in their first and only debate less than a month before the...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s sudden halt to stimulus talks coincided with a surge in a group of stocks seen as benefiting the most from a Joe Biden presidency. The...

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump wants to return to the Oval Office on Tuesday, less than 24 hours after being released from a three-day hospital stay for treatment of...

(Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is preparing to face tough questions in Tuesday’s debate on how he would approach China if he wins the White House in...