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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...

  • German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble attends a news conference at the finance ministry in Berlin, November 6, 2014. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

    Germany disappoints with new investment pledge

    By Holger Hansen and Stephen Brown and Matthias Sobolewski, Reuters

    BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced 10 billion euros in additional public investments on Thursday but said Berlin would only splash out more money once it had...

  • Bear hunting and sharia law among ballot measures in U.S. election

    By Julia Edwards, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - (This November 4, 2014 story was refiled to correct the last paragraph to state that Arkansas voters chose to keep laws prohibiting alcohol sales in the state's dry counties,...

  • The logo of Bulgaria's Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) is seen near a traffic sign in Sofia October 31, 2014. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

    Bulgaria lets Corpbank fail, faces clean-up bill

    By Tsvetelia Tsolova, Reuters

    SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria's central bank has stripped Corporate Commercial Bank of its operating license and asked a court to open insolvency proceedings, snuffing out hopes of a rescue for the...

  • U.S. President Barack Obama answers questions at a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, November 5, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing

    White House declines to say whether Obama would veto a Keystone bill

    By Reuters

    White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama is committed to his current review process for the pipeline, and said there was a clearly established precedent requiring a presidential decision on...

  • Emergency personnel attend to the scene of a bus accident in this handout photo provided by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office. REUTERS/Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office/Handout

    Bus, car and truck crash injures 27 people near Syracuse

    By Matthew Liptak, Reuters

    SYRACUSE N.Y. (Reuters) - A tour bus slammed into a car abandoned by a drunken driver on Interstate 81 near Syracuse early on Thursday, then smashed into a tractor-trailer parked alongside the...