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  • Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) arrives at Democratic Party caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/ File Photo

    Factbox: What happens in a U.S. government shutdown?

    By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker and Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker, Reuters

    In shutdowns, nonessential government employees are furloughed, or placed on temporary unpaid leave. Workers deemed essential, including those dealing with public safety and national security, keep...

  • FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist holds prescription painkiller OxyContin at a local pharmacy in Provo

    Delaware Sues Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors Over Epidemic

    By Nate Raymond, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Delaware on Friday became the latest state to file a lawsuit accusing corporations of helping fuel the national opioid epidemic, suing a wide range of companies involved in making,...

  • usFILE PHOTO: A bulldozer moves coal at the Murray Energy Corporation port facility in Powhatan Point, Ohio

    Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States

    By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...

  • FILE PHOTO - Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin listens as U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a tax reform industry meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Trump Tries to Sell Tax Reform to Democrats

    By David Morgan, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to sell Democrats on his tax reform plan on Wednesday even as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing a budget measure that...

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson (L) listens to Representative Tom Marino (R-PA) (R) before a House Judiciary committee hearing on the 'Oversight of the US Department of Homeland Security' on Capitol Hill in Washington July 14, 20

    Trump's drug czar nominee withdraws from consideration

    By Sarah N. Lynch and Makini Brice, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. lawmaker who was President Donald Trump's pick for drug czar withdrew on Tuesday after a report he spearheaded a bill that hurt the government's ability to crack down...

  • Medtronic to buy Covidien for $42.9 billion, rebase in Ireland

    Medtronic to buy Covidien for $42.9 billion, rebase in Ireland

    By Susan Kelly and Greg Roumeliotis, Reuters

    (Reuters) - U.S. medical device maker Medtronic Inc <MDT.N> said on Sunday it had agreed to buy Covidien Plc <COV.N> for $42.9 billion in cash and stock and move its executive base to...

  • Mobile 'net neutrality' faces new day of reckoning at FCC

    Mobile 'net neutrality' faces new day of reckoning at FCC

    By Alina Selyukh and Marina Lopes, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in mobile Internet usage has U.S. regulators considering whether to apply the same rules to fixed and wireless Internet traffic, and large technology firms are siding...

  • Market Volatility Likely with Focus on Fed and Iraq

    By Patti Domm, CNBC

    Market volatility is likely to pick up in the week ahead, as focus shifts to the Fed and the possibility it could start to hike interest rates a bit sooner than expected. But the unfolding situation...

  • Pakistan army launches big operation after airport attack

    Pakistan army launches big operation after airport attack

    By Haji Mujtaba, Reuters

    MIRANSHAH Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan sent troops, artillery and helicopter gunships to the troubled North Waziristan region on Sunday in a long-expected military operation just a week after a...

  • Renegade general launches offensive in east Libya, up to 12 killed

    Renegade general launches offensive in east Libya, up to 12 killed

    By Ayman al-Warfalli and Ulf Laessing, Reuters

    BENGHAZI/TRIPOLI Libya (Reuters) - A renegade Libyan general launched a fresh offensive on Sunday against Islamist militants in the eastern city of Benghazi, sparking some of the worst fighting in...