Joe Murphy

Russian oil makes up 8 percent of U.S. oil imports. In most European countries, that number is much higher.

The United States will deliver more military aid and return a diplomatic presence to Ukraine, officials told President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a trip to Kyiv.

All five remaining Republicans facing Trump=backed primary challengers also had more money in their campaign accounts.

The weight of the pandemic can be measured in the count of hospital beds filled with Covid-positive patients.

The weight of the pandemic can be measured in the count of hospital beds filled with Covid-positive patients.

More than 1 million people have died in the U.S. of Covid-19. Track which states are getting hit the hardest and which direction the country’s death rate is going. Updated daily.

Get the latest data on the human cost of this virus. Updated daily.

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Should the U.S. government shut down Sunday, millions of employees and their families will be impacted as the effects of halting operations ripple across the country. The four-plus million people employed by the federal government include more than two and a half million employees in the civilian government workforce: workers who deliver the mail, forecast the weather and provide care for veterans of the armed forces. Stacked up against the nation as a whole, this is how the federal workforce c…

Fundraising reports filed over the weekend provide new insights into the battle for the Senate, where Democrats are defending their slim majority. Republicans need a net gain of just two seats to take control of the chamber, or one seat if they win the White House next year, since the vice president casts tie-breaking votes. The new filings, which cover fundraising from July through September, shows that Democrats continue to dominate the fundraising game, with vulnerable incumbents stockpiling…