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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...

  • European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans attends a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg February 11, 2015. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

    France in push to break EU financial transactions tax deadlock

    By Reuters

    The countries involved are struggling to agree the scope of the tax, designed to make banks pay for the public aid they received in the 2007-09 financial crisis, and how it will be applied before a...

  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives her speech at the annual meeting of the Confederation of German Employers' Association (BDA) in Berlin, November 4, 2014. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

    Merkel says euro zone extremely fragile

    By Madeline Chambers, Reuters

    BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday the euro zone was extremely fragile and made clear Europe's biggest economy would not borrow more to invest, resisting pressure from...

  • 6 Hot-Button Issues on State Ballots This Election Day

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    What’s on your ballot this election day? And who’s likely to be affected by your decisions – beyond, that is, the politicians who have been lobbying fiercely for your vote for lo these many months?...

  • The logo of Nissan Motor Co is pictured at a showroom at the carmaker's headquarters in Yokohama, Japan May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

    Nissan cuts global sales outlook on China slowdown

    By Mari Saito and Maki Shiraki, Reuters

    YOKOHAMA Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co <7201.T> cut its full-year global vehicle sales forecast on Tuesday, hit by an economic slowdown in China even as strong U.S. sales allowed it to keep...

  • Former UBS banker Raoul Weil, who is out on bail, arrives at federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in this file photo taken October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Innerarity

    Former UBS executive found not guilty in U.S. tax cheating trial

    By Francisco Alvarado, Reuters

    FORT LAUDERDALE Fla. (Reuters) - A former top banker who headed global wealth management at UBS AG was found not guilty on Monday on U.S. charges of conspiring with wealthy Americans to hide $20...