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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...

  • Steam billows from the cooling towers of the Doel nuclear plant of Electrabel in Doel near Antwerp

    Nuclear Power Could Boom Under President Trump

    By James Stafford, Oilprice.com

    With Trump at the helm, sentiment gives way to practicality in the energy industry. For the vast untapped potential of the nuclear energy industry and the uranium that feeds it, this could contribute...

  • Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son shows a signed page to the press after meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York

    5 Questions About Trump’s Softbank Announcement

    By Rob Garver

    President-elect Donald Trump appeared in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday and made an unexpected announcement. Standing beside Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of the Japanese telecommunications...

  • Uncut diamonds from southern Africa and Canada are seen at De Beers headquarters in London

    How Radioactive Diamonds Could Power the Future

    By Michael McDonald, Oilprice.com

    One of the major problems of nuclear waste is that it is… well waste. A new development by a team of physicists and chemists at the University of Bristol may change all that. The group of scientists...

  • SuperValu, which uses 1.5 billion bags a year at its grocery stores, is retraining its cashiers and baggers to eliminate double-bagging, put more items in each bag and eliminate bags entirely for gallon jugs of milk and other things with handles. Customer

    No Lines, No Checkout: Has Amazon Created the Supermarket of the Future?

    By Narottam Medhora and Jeffrey Dastin, Reuters

    Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has opened a brick-and-mortar grocery store in Seattle without lines or checkout counters, kicking off new competition with supermarket chains. Amazon Go, the online...

  • OPEC logo is pictured ahead of an informal meeting between members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Algiers, Algeria September 28, 2016. REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina/File Photo

    Why Oil Company Earnings Could Double in 2017

    By Rakesh Upadhyay, Oilprice.com

    The energy sector has been outperforming other sectors among the S&P 500 companies this year, with a gain of 21.79 percent year to date. Now the question is whether or not the recent OPEC deal...