McCarthy, Biden say they can avoid default ahead of deadline
President Joe Biden and U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reported productive talks Monday.
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ChatGPT-powered Wall Street: The benefits and perils of using artificial intelligence to trade stocks
Artificial Intelligence-powered tools have the potential to revolutionize the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of the work humans do.
Watchdog finds 3.7 million potentially fraudulent pandemic relief recipients
A Congressional watchdog found more than 1 out of every 4 people who applied for pandemic relief had potentially fraudulent discrepancies in their applications.
Debt talks on pause as deadline looms
Negotiations between President Joe Biden's White House and U.S. House Kevin McCarthy over the nation's debt limit hit pause.
Oklahoma Legislature to hold special session on budget
Oklahoma House and Senate leaders are calling for a special session.
War rooms and bailouts: How banks and the Fed are preparing for a US default
"You hope it doesn't happen, but hope is not a strategy - so you prepare for it." - Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan.
Rural electric co-ops to get $10.7B in USDA funds for clean energy grants, loans
The USDA will begin to administer two loan and grant programs worth nearly $11 billion to boost clean energy.
A brief history of debt ceiling crises and the political chaos they’ve unleashed
Since 1976, there have been 22 shutdowns of the federal government due to lack of a federal budget.
U.S. faces 'significant risk' of breaking debt ceiling in first weeks of June: CBO
The U.S. government faces a significant risk of not being able to pay its bills in the coming weeks.
Biden and congressional leaders fail to reach a debt limit deal, will meet again Friday
President Joe Biden and top congressional leaders were unable to reach a bipartisan debt limit agreement.
