Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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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, ReutersIn 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...
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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,...
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Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States
By Valerie Volcovici, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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Trump Tries to Sell Tax Reform to Democrats
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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Trump's drug czar nominee withdraws from consideration
By Sarah N. Lynch and Makini Brice, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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Senate Republicans Gain Crucial Support for Budget Vital to Tax Reform
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday gained crucial support for a vote on a budget resolution that is vital to President Donald Trump's hopes of signing sweeping tax reform...
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U.S. consumer finance agency expected to punish Equifax: lawyers
By Reuters and Patrick RuckerBy Lisa Lambert and Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. consumer finance watchdog agency is expected to punish Equifax for its cyber breach with the wide-ranging powers it has used with...
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U.S. incomes, poverty rate bounce back to pre-recession levels in 2016
By ReutersBy Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. poverty rate fell for the second straight year in 2016 while median income rose to an all-time high of $59,000 as the economy made up ground lost...
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No Talk of Ousting Speaker Ryan, Key Conservative Says
By ReutersMany Republicans are unhappy with the deal President Donald Trump reached last week with Democratic leaders to raise the government's debt ceiling and allow it to continue financing federal spending...
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Congress sends Trump disaster aid, debt limit increase
By Richard Cowan and Amanda Becker, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to provide disaster aid, extend the debt ceiling and fund the federal government for three months on Friday, delivering on...
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Afghan election front-runner escapes assassination attempt
By Mirwais Harooni and Jessica Donati, ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - Abdullah Abdullah, front-runner in Afghanistan's presidential election, escaped assassination on Friday when two bombs blew up outside a hotel where he had just staged a rally,...
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India's Modi to visit U.S. in September, first trip to Bhutan
By ReutersNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States, most likely in September, but his first foreign trip will be a lot closer to home - to the tiny Himalayan state...
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Six governments tap Vodafone calls
By Kate Holton and Sarah Young, ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The world's second-biggest mobile phone company Vodafone revealed government agencies in six unidentified countries use its network to listen to and record customers' calls,...
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Rebels down Ukraine army plane on eve of Poroshenko's swearing-in
By Thomas Grove and Alissa de Carbonnel, ReutersDONETSK/LUHANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army plane as fighting raged in the eastern town of Slaviansk on Friday, a day before the inauguration of pro-...
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Exclusive: As bank fines soar, U.S. threatened $16 billion BNP penalty
By Aruna Viswanatha and Karen Freifeld, ReutersWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities negotiating with BNP Paribas over alleged sanctions violations at one point suggested that France's biggest bank pay a penalty as high as $16 billion...