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In this April 21, 2020, file photo Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. arrives at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shelved a proposal for proxy voting this week after Republicans objected. In the Senate, McConnell rejected a GOP remote vote proposal. He expects Congress to return May 4, as planned. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Senate to return to business next week

Congress will return to business in Washington next week, leaders in both chambers announced Monday, joining states across the country in trying to get back to work -- even if that work looks decidedly different.

April 27, 2020
In this undated photo provided by the office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, personal protective equipment is seen on a table in a Brentwood, N.Y., warehouse. Federal prosecutors say New York retailer Amardeep Singh has been charged with hoarding disposable masks, surgical gowns and hand sanitizer in the Long Island warehouse and selling the items at huge markups in violation of the Defense Production Act of 1950. (A Bagnuola/US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York via AP)

Feds charge New Yorker with coronavirus price gouging

Federal prosecutors charged a New York man with price gouging on Friday, saying he hoarded tens of thousands of masks, hundreds of thousands of disposable gloves and even some full-body isolation suits -- and sought to sell them for significantly more than he paid to "uniquely vulnerable populations."

April 24, 2020
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence arrive to speak about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

GDP to drop 12%, debt soars to modern record amid coronavirus: CBO

The coronavirus will devastate the economy in ways unprecedented in modern times, slicing $1.5 trillion off the country's gross domestic product this quarter and sending the unemployment rate soaring to 14%, the Congressional Budget Office said Friday.

April 24, 2020
President Trump's new 60-day immigration pause, which he says is intended to help laid off U.S. workers competing for jobs, includes a number of exceptions limiting its scope. (Associated Press)

Trump’s immigration pause exempts wealthy Chinese investors

President Trump's new 60-day immigration pause will not apply to wealthy investors willing to pay up hundreds of thousands of dollars for the so-called "Golden Visa" -- a particular favorite pathway for wealthy Chinese to gain a foothold in the U.S.

April 23, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump signs immigration pause proclamation

President Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday pausing some immigration into the U.S., saying it will give out-of-work Americans a better shot at getting jobs in a coronavirus-stricken economy.

April 22, 2020
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the Chuanshan port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in east China's Zhejiang Province, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Authorities in China are working to restart its industries as number of new coronavirus cases and deaths fall in the country. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

China mocks U.S. coronavirus lawsuits, demands dismissal

The Chinese Foreign Ministry mocked attempts to sue the country's government and ruling Communist Party over the coronavirus, saying health officials have been forthcoming with details of the disease throughout the crisis.

April 22, 2020
The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Think tanks warn of coronavirus ‘budgetary gluttony’ in states

Congress needs to fix the coronavirus stimulus it passed last month or it will spur states to go on spending binges to use up the cash, even if the money doesn't actually help control the pandemic, a coalition of taxpayer groups and free-market think tanks warned in a letter last week.

April 22, 2020
In this April 19, 2020, photo, a man holds a sign in view of the Capitol building at a protest opposing Washington state's stay-home order to slow the coronavirus outbreak in Olympia, Wash. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has blasted President Donald Trump's calls to "liberate" parts of the country from stay-at-home and other orders that are designed to combat the spread of the coronavirus.. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Coronavirus reopenings expose ‘red state-blue state divide’

Republican governors in the Sun Belt are aggressively pushing to reopen from the coronavirus shutdown, expressing optimism they can manage the threat, while coastal Democrats are far more pessimistic -- creating the ultimate red state-blue state divide.

April 21, 2020
In this May 1, 2017, photo, a pregnant Olivia Tincani of Calif., paints a supportive message to immigrant farmworkers as she joins a large group protesters outside the White House to denounce President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies on May Day in Washington. The Trump administration says pregnant women charged with being in the United States illegally will no longer receive special considerations that allowed them to be released while their cases wind through immigration court, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday, March 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

ICE given good marks for treatment of pregnant migrants in audit

The government's top auditor gave ICE and the Border Patrol a mostly clean bill of health Tuesday when it comes to treatment of pregnant illegal immigrants, finding that while dozens of complaints of maltreatment are lodged, few of them can be substantiated.

April 21, 2020
In this Oct. 3, 2018, file photo, a border fence in Columbus, N.M., sits along the U.S.-Mexico border at sunset. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File) **FILE**

Comptroller general to probe no-bid border wall contract

The comptroller general is expanding an investigation into President Trump's border wall to look at a no-bid contract that will pay a whopping $32 million a mile -- far higher than other wall sections -- a senator said Saturday.

April 18, 2020