Bloomberg The White House is exploring whether President Donald Trump can act on his own to extend enhanced unemployment benefits and eviction protection if lawmakers fail to act, people familiar with the matter said. The White House is concerned about the economic impact of the $600 a week supplemental benefits, the people said, as Democrats and Republicans have been unable ...

Bloomberg Portugal is in talks with the British government to try to lift a rule that requires anyone arriving in England from the southern European country to self-isolate for two weeks. Rita Marques, Portugal’s secretary of state for tourism, said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Monday that she wasn’t sure when the UK would revise its quarantine rule even ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump was expected to sign an executive order that would bar federal agencies from dismissing US citizens or green card holders and replacing them with foreign workers. The order will increase scrutiny of federal contractors’ use of H-1B visas to bring in temporary foreign labor for high-skilled jobs rather than relying on American workers, according to an ...