Government And Institutions

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold an unusual tete-a-tete on Thursday with Paul Ryan, the country's top elected Republican, to see if they can begin healing fissures in the party created by Trump's insurgent candidacy.

The Environmental Protection Agency is set to issue on Thursday the first federal standards aimed at curbing methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, according to multiple people familiar with the plan.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is sounding off on the GOP frontrunner.

A U.S. House of Representatives panel has delayed plans to introduce new legislation to address Puerto Rico's debt crisis.

The U.S. has taken prudent steps to prevent another stock market 'Flash Crash', other countries remain vulnerable.

The National Federation of Independent Business’s (NFIB) gauge of small business optimism showed improvement in April, but the firm’s leader said new regulations concerning overtime rules might put that positive feeling on ice.

Michael Bloomberg’s former campaign manager Bradley Tusk talks politics and why his new company, Tusk Ventures is focusing on helping startups.

The circumstances surrounding the re-capture of Mexican drug lord “El Chapo,” also known as Joaquin Guzman, has all the makings of a hit Hollywood film.

A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday ordered that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may have to testify in a lawsuit related to the private email server she used while secretary of state.

The latest coordinated terrorist attacks at the Brussels airport and subway system that left 31 dead and 180 wounded comes a few days after the top suspect in last year’s Paris attack was captured by authorities in Belgium.

The issue of Charter school funding is coming to a head in Colorado.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid more to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters than he will make in the remaining seven years and four months he has in his job.

Volkswagen AG and the Justice Department reached a deal in principle to address excess diesel emissions in nearly 600,000 polluting vehicles that will include buyback offers and a possible fix, a federal judge said Thursday.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi brushed off German criticism of his ultra-loose monetary policy on Thursday and vowed to use all the tools at his disposal for "as long as needed."

ECB President Mario Draghi is likely to drive home the case for ultra-loose monetary policy on Thursday, hitting back at a barrage of criticism in Germany of its recipe for tackling the economic malaise.

President Obama and King Salman of Saudi Arabia met in Riyadh on Wednesday amid growing tensions between the two countries as some U.S. lawmakers are backing a bill that would allow families of 9-11 victims to sue the Middle East kingdom.

Two Michigan environmental regulators and a Flint water-plant supervisor have been charged in the first criminal case stemming from federal and state probes into lead contamination of the city's drinking water, a state court official confirmed Wednesday.

The U.S. Treasury has decided to replace former President Andrew Jackson with anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on the U.S. $20 bill, and will put leaders of the women's suffrage movement on the back of $10 bill, Politico reported on Wednesday.

European Union antitrust regulators accused Google on Wednesday of abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system in deals with phone makers and mobile network operators following a year-long investigation

The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case on Monday probing the limits of presidential powers as the justices weigh whether President Barack Obama overstepped his authority with unilateral action to protect millions of people in the country illegally from deportation.