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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the United States has doubled the bounty for the new ISIS leader to $10 million.

As Congress gets ready to consider another stimulus package, President Donald Trump said this week that stimulus checks could be a part of the mix. But Americans would first have to wait for political negotiations and another deployment of payments.

Experts are skeptical that this year's organizers will be able to pull off the Republican National Convention in a couple of months.

The chances of winning November's presidential election have moved "firmly" in favor of Democratic candidate Joe Biden, economists have projected.

Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker said Tuesday they are opening an investigation of Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill and Smithfield Foods, after reports that the meatpacking companies were exporting a record amount of pork to China, while warning of impending meat shortages.

Financial advisory firm Signum Global Advisors is telling clients that it now believes the U.S. Senate is going to flip blue as Joe Biden continues to surge past President Donald Trump in the polls.

The family of President Donald Trump reportedly is asking a court to block the publication of a forthcoming tell-all book writting by Trump's niece, Mary Trump.

The White House will host Poland's President Andrzej Duda this week in what will be the first visit by a foreign leader since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Thomas Joyce, who now heads Nanobeak Biotech, resigned from the Darien Police Commission after a complaint about his Twitter posts.

Sen. Bob Menendez, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling on the State Department inspector general to investigate Trump appointee Michael Pack.

The White House is reportedly considering a massive overhaul at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the Trump administration tries to pin blame on the agency for its bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic.

"I've been convinced for a long time that 40 millions African Americans who tend to vote as a bloc in one of the two parties limit their leverage in getting action form both parties," Johnson told CNBC on Tuesday.

Charles Booker and Amy McGrath face off in the race to take on Sen. Mitch McConnell, while Jamaal Bowman looks to upset Rep. Eliot Engel.

"There is a greater risk of not going back to school and the damage it will do to the children, and to the parents and to the economy," the Tennessee Republican told CNBC.

Eight advance team members, two of whom are Secret Service agents tested positive either before or after President Donald Trump's Tulsa rally.

Trump fired Berman because he refused to transfer willingly to another post in order to allow for the appointment of current Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton to Berman's post, said White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday placed limits on the Securities and Exchange Commission's practice of forcing defendants to surrender profits obtained through fraud as part of its enforcement of investor-protection laws in federal courts, but stopped short of disallowing such action.

Kamala Harris has taken a big role in criticizing President Trump and in pushing for police reform, but she would bring risks as Joe Biden's VP pick.

Lujan Grisham's deep background in health and aging could bring authority to the Biden campaign's message on the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump wanted his first mega rally in three months to be a sold-out lovefest that would revive his struggling reelection campaign. That's not what happened.