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Byline: KONRAD YAKABUSKI, Staff Lead Despite doubling federal spending this year to about $650-billion, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is just getting started. In her fall fiscal update, tabled Monday, Ms. [...]

Byline: BILL CURRY, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead Opposition MPs outvoted the Liberals to compel the release of documents related to the government's handling of the pandemic, even though senior ministers [...]

The politics of a bipartisan deal were always tricky, but the president's abrupt move to upend negotiations removed any ambiguity about who was responsible for the lack of an aid [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the coronavirus relief talks were over until after the election, abruptly ordering Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to stop [...]

Byline: Rachael Bade and Erica Werner WASHINGTON - House Democrats were starting to squirm earlier this week, fretting that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's risky gamble in economic relief talks would [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - Congress' top Democratic and Republican leaders traded bitter accusations Thursday ahead of a critical negotiating session on a coronavirus relief bill, with [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent For Print Use Only. President Donald Trump has blithely declared that the most dire public health crisis in modern U.S. history will just 'disappear' or 'go away' [...]

Byline: ADRIAN MORROW, Staff WASHINGTON -- Lead U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening economic retaliation against China over its handling of COVID-19, tying the pandemic into his long-running trade war [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman For Print Use Only. When a crisis occurs, the common response from politicians is what economist Larry Summers once termed 'now-more-than-everism.' Everyone says the solution lies in [...]

For Print Use Only. The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: State and local governments are bulwarks of the American public sector, spending some 19% of the nation's output [...]

Byline: Erica Werner and Jeff Stein WASHINGTON - The Trump administration and congressional leaders on Sunday neared a $400 billion-plus deal to renew funding for a small-business loan program that [...]

For Print Use Only. This editorial appears in The Washington Post. - - - We do not yet know the specific reasons President Donald Trump decided to remove Glenn Fine [...]

Byline: Carol Morello WASHINGTON - The coronavirus pandemic fueled calls this week for rolling back sanctions, even as the Trump administration announced new measures against Iran and Venezuela. The lobbying [...]

Even as European countries erect barriers between one another, the E.U. announced a coordinated ban on nearly all travelers from the rest of the world. BRUSSELS -- The spiraling coronavirus [...]

Infighting, turf wars and a president more concerned with the stock market and media coverage than policy have defined the Trump White House. They have also defined how it has [...]

Trump utterly fails to rise to his first real crisis. For three years Donald Trump led a charmed life. He faced only one major crisis that he didn't generate himself [...]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The following information was released by the Government of Sweden: On 7--14 July, State Secretary Eva Svedling and a Swedish delegation will take part in the High-level [...]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The following information was released by the Government of Sweden: The Government has adopted an ordinance that enables the provision of compensation for the temporary suspension of [...]

Byline: Pete Buttigieg President Trump is resorting to a desperate reelection strategy: To deflect blame for his failure to address the coronavirus crisis, and in the hope that the public [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin There is a tendency in the mainstream media to attribute nearly unlimited political prowess to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Certainly, his hard-line gamesmanship has worked [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman As the coronavirus pandemic worsens and the economy hurtles downward, the Trump administration is already working out its strategy to convince us that the president's performance has [...]

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Byline: Paul Kane;John Wagner House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) kept talking Friday, trying to buy more time until she got the go-ahead. After nearly 20 minutes, Keith Stern, who runs [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman Last week, 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, a stunning number that far exceeds anything we've seen in our nation's history. Yet at this [...]

Byline: Philip H. Gordon;Ariane M. Tabatabai Philip H. Gordon is the Mary and David Boies senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ariane M. Tabatabai [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan;Lori Aratani Even as the Ebola outbreak still raged in West Africa, congressional watchdogs began investigating how well-prepared U.S. airports and airlines were to deal with a rapidly [...]

Byline: Henry Olsen House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) famously said of Obamacare that Congress had to pass the bill to learn what was in it. Perhaps she's hoping the same [...]

Byline: Erica Werner;Jeff Stein;Paul Kane;Mike DeBonis Senators worked late into the night Friday in search of a deal on a trillion-dollar stimulus bill to save the economy from collapsing under [...]

Byline: Greg Sargent If the economy slips into a serious recession, will it doom President Trump's reelection chances? A new forecast from respected political scientist Alan Abramowitz finds that the [...]

Byline: Dan Balz Anyone who thought that former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were ready to begin to make peace in their competition for the Democratic [...]

Byline: Cindy Ermus It seems as though American society is grinding to a halt: virtually all sporting events postponed or canceled, Broadway shuttered, entire states closing schools. While these tactics [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Less than a month into Donald Trump's presidency, his adviser Kellyanne Conway boasted that record stock-market numbers were a measure of support for 'the policies, action and [...]

President Xi Jinping has an unwritten deal with the Chinese people: Give me total political control, and I will solve China's problems and make it a global superpower. This implicit [...]