Senior senators said Thursday that the main obstacle that prevents a compromise on a $ 1,1 billion bill to tackle the Zika virus could be removed soon. On Tuesday, a vote on the Republican-proposed bill was blocked by Democrats ...

Chicago Public Schools won't open this fall unless officials allocate funds from the education budget. CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said. “Chicago schools will not be open, and I suspect that will be the case for most schools in the state,”...

America is “ready to deprive Russia of access to Western loans if President Putin does not comply with demands for peace in Ukraine under the Minsk agreement,” report The Times correspondents Roger Boyes and David Taylor. According to them, lending conditions for Russian companies may be even more...

The European Union has frozen funding for the Republic of Moldova. This was stated by the head of the EU delegation to Moldova, Pirkka Tapiola. According to him, European money will fall into the budget of Moldova when the Chisinau authorities form a new government capable of negotiating a new financing agreement with the IMF ...

On Monday, the State Duma approved a series of amendments to the budget law, providing, among other things, for the allocation of additional funds to Channel One OJSC and the VGTRK holding. The author of the amendment on additional financing of state channels, head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin, believes that the aggravated international situation...

“US Senator John McCain wants to end US dependence on Russian rocket engines for flights to low-Earth orbit,” The Daily Beast notes. Some Republicans object that McCain's demand is technically impossible, but the senator is not inclined to listen to such arguments, writes...