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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...

  • Russia stands by Ukraine ceasefire deal, 'respects' rebel vote

    By Richard Balmforth, Reuters

    Foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov also said Russia respects the will of voters in the east after a separatist leadership election regarded as illegitimate by the West. But, following Western...

  • EU court backs Spain's tax breaks for foreign acquisitions

    By Foo Yun Chee, Reuters

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain has won backing from a European Union court for tax breaks intended to help its companies buy stakes in foreign firms, dealing a blow to EU regulators' campaign against tax...

  • Flora Bernat, one of the main organisers of recent big protests in Hungary against a planned tax on internet traffic, poses for a portrait in Aurora, a bar where the organiser meet regularly, in Budapest, November 4, 2014. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

    Hungarian Internet tax protesters aim to be new opposition force

    By Marton Dunai, Reuters

    BUDAPEST (Reuters) - With Hungary’s conservative prime minister enjoying solid support and his opposition in disarray, Hungarians who united against his plan to tax the Internet believe they have...

  • Hedge funds under threat from pension fund rethink

    By Nishant Kumar and Simon Jessop and Anthony Deutsch, Reuters

    LONDON (Reuters) - Pension schemes are starting to rethink their hedge fund investments in the face of high costs and poor returns, putting at risk the heady pace of capital flows into an industry...

  • A businessman looks at a screen displaying a photo of U.S. $100 banknotes in Tokyo, in this April 8, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/Files

    Japan's Abe: Must avoid hurting recovery with sales tax rise

    By Stanley White and Leika Kihara, Reuters

    "We have no plan to abandon our goal of restoring Japan's finances. But in order to achieve fiscal reform, we need to get the economy growing and end deflation," Abe said in a television program. Abe...