The Trump administration and congressional Democrats have found something they agree on — and it could mean higher taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. Last week, President Donald Trump's energy secretary, Elaine Chao, told senators that a gas tax hike was on the table when asked whether the White House would support such a move. And this week, Democrats are indicating that they too are ready to consider a tax increase.

Congress may issue subpoenas in an investigation into whether the White House sought to block AT&T's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, the chairman of a House antitrust subcommittee said Sunday. Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., floated the possibility of after The New Yorker reported that President Donald Trump wanted former aide Gary Cohn to push the Justice Department to sue and block the acquisition. Trump frequently criticizes Time Warner's CNN news channel.

Frustrated by a divided Congress and rifts within his own party, President Donald Trump is giving little indication in his latest budget proposal of any new policy ambitions for the coming two, or six, years. Trump's budget plan increases spending on his border wall and the military but is light on fresh ideas heading into his re-election campaign.

The "Fearless Girl" statue that inspired millions with her message of female empowerment has been plucked from her spot opposite Wall Street's "Charging Bull" and will be reinstalled in front of the New York Stock Exchange by the end of the year, officials said Wednesday. A plaque with two footsteps marks the girl's former spot on a traffic island near the tip of Manhattan. "Fearless Girl is on the move to The New York Stock Exchange," the plaque reads. "Until she's there, stand for her." The Boston-based financial services firm State Street Global Advisors said the sculpture of a defiant-looking young girl was moved Tuesday night. No date for her reinstallation at the stock exchange was given.

Democratic 2020 contender Elizabeth Warren's call to break up big tech companies like Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. thrust into the mainstream an emerging movement that favors an aggressive attack on corporate power. Warren's proposal last week to classify some technology giants as utilities and undo previous industry mergers jolted Silicon Valley. It also hit a nerve among Democrats and Republicans in Congress, who've grown increasingly concerned that curbs on anticompetitive conduct are poorly enforced.

Federal Reserve officials expressed increasing worries when they met last month, as they grappled with volatile stock markets, trade tensions and uncertain global growth. The threats, they said, made the future path of interest rate hikes "less clear."

President Donald Trump said Sunday he will extend a deadline to escalate tariffs on Chinese imports, citing "substantial progress" in weekend talks between the two countries. Trump tweeted that there had been "productive talks" on some of the difficult issues dividing the U.S. and China, adding that "I will be delaying the U.S. increase in tariffs now scheduled for March 1."

U.S. and Chinese negotiators are holding high-level talks aimed at settling a six-month trade war that has weakened both sides, shaken financial markets and clouded the outlook for the global economy. Yet the odds seem stacked against any substantive resolution this week to the standoff between the world's two biggest economies.

A law firm tied to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's Ukrainian consulting work has agreed to pay more than $4.6 million and publicly acknowledge that it failed to report its work for a foreign government, the Justice Department said Thursday. According to the agreement, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, one of the largest law firms in the world, acknowledged that in 2012 it acted as an agent of Ukraine by participating in a public relations campaign for a report it authored for that country's government. The investigation into Manafort, who now faces years in prison, entangled several prominent firms, lobbyists and lawyers, including former Skadden partner and Obama White House counsel Greg Craig, who appears to be the unnamed senior partner in the damning 44-page settlement agreement.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Thursday that, out of consideration for the 800,000 federal workers not getting paid, President Donald Trump has nixed his delegation's trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland later this month. The president had earlier pulled out of attending the forum because of the shutdown. It was the latest development in a back-and-forth between Washington Democrats and the White House begun when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requested Trump delay his State of the Union address until government is fully staffed and continued when Trump grounded a congressional delegation, including Pelosi, traveling to Afghanistan war zones.