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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South China Sea tensions rise as Vietnam says China rammed ships
By Nguyen Phuong Linh and Michael Martina, ReutersHANOI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Vietnam said on Wednesday a Chinese vessel intentionally rammed two of its ships in a part of the disputed South China Sea where Beijing has deployed a giant oil rig,...
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Obama health nominee's first task? Ward off new crises
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. health secretary, will need all her skills as a crisis manager to steer the law known as Obamacare away from...
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Insight: Pimco's bad bets on emerging markets add to firm's troubles
By Jennifer Ablan and Guillermo Parra-Bernal, ReutersNEW YORK/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Betting on emerging markets has led to losses for many over the past year - but among big investors few got the timing of their wagers as wrong as Pacific Investment...
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Minnesota Senate advances medical marijuana bill
By ReutersMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota senators on Tuesday advanced a bill that would make physician-prescribed medical marijuana legal for a broad range of patient suffering, joining more than 20 other U...
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Alibaba files for what may be biggest tech IPO
By Alexei Oreskovic and Deepa Seetharaman, ReutersSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alibaba gave investors a closer look at the scale and growth of the Chinese e-commerce juggernaut in an initial public offering (IPO) prospectus filed on Tuesday, the first...