The United States is unlikely to be sent back into lockdown despite a surge in Covid-19 cases stemming from the Delta variant, top US scientist Anthony Fauci said Sunday. 

The comments came after Congress failed to extend the ban, which has prevented an estimated 2 million Americans from losing their homes during the pandemic.

"This is a coordinated, brazen attack, for a lack of a better word," NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said during a rare Sunday session that Democrats are "on track" to pass a bipartisan infrastructure agreement and a budget resolution that will tee up a separate $3.5 trillion spending package before they...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joked at a Saturday night event that it "will be hard not to hit" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the speaker's gavel if Republicans take control of the chamber in the 2022 midterms and he becomes speaker.