Nearly 8M have fallen into poverty since summer as US sees largest increase in single year

Poverty in the United States has risen sharply in recent months amid the coronavirus pandemic, with 7.8 million Americans falling into poverty since the summer, according to new data released this month.

Trump signs COVID relief bill granting stimulus checks, jobless benefits

President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals.

New coronavirus relief bill saves unemployment benefits for 500k Pennsylvanians

Unemployment benefits for an estimated 500,000 Pennsylvanians will be saved after President Donald Trump announced Sunday night he will sign the $900B relief package.

Trump grants 15 pardons, 5 commutations

The pardons announced Tuesday night include former Republican Reps. Duncan Hunter of California and Chris Collins of New York.

White House invites GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania to lunch

The invitation arrived about a month after Republican state lawmakers from Pennsylvania held a public hearing in Gettysburg to discuss efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

President Trump threatens to torpedo COVID-19 relief bill with new demands

President Trump is calling for direct payments to Americans to be $2,000, not the $600 currently in the bill. He also says more needs to be done to help small businesses.

AG Barr: 'No reason' for special counsel on 2020 election, Hunter Biden

Outgoing Attorney General William Barr says he sees “no reason” to appoint a special counsel on potential election fraud or the tax investigation into the son of President-elect Joe Biden.

Trump campaign takes fight over Penn. election, ballot laws to Supreme Court

President Trump’s campaign team on Sunday filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse several cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to change the state’s mail balloting law before and after the 2020 presidential election.

Trump contradicts Pompeo, downplays U.S. cyberattack

Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the grave cyberattack against the United States and tried to minimized its impact.

Joe Biden praises President Trump for ‘getting the vaccine moving’

In a television appearance Thursday night, Democrat Joe Biden praised President Trump for "getting the vaccine moving" as the treatment for fighting the coronavirus began to make its way across the U.S.

Trump's Palm Beach neighbors challenging his move to Mar-a-Lago

President Donald Trump's expected move to his Mar-a-Lago club after he leaves office next month is being challenged by a neighbor who says a 1990s agreement allowing Trump to convert the Florida property into a business prohibits anyone from living there -- including Trump himself.

Atlantic City to auction spot to push demolish button on Trump casino

The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in excess of $1 million.

Former Israeli space chief says US in contact with ‘galactic federation’ of aliens and Trump knows

Israel’s former director of space programs for the country’s ministry of defense claimed the U.S. and Israel have been in contact with extraterrestrials representing a “galactic federation,” and President Donald Trump has been on the verge of revealing the information.