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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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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The Crisis in Venezuela Could Send Oil Prices Soaring
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comVenezuela’s deteriorating crisis is “going to be the biggest geopolitical story to watch in the oil markets," according to Helima Croft of RBC Capital Markets. The economic, political and security...
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The Risk That Could Drive Oil Prices Higher in a Hurry
By Nick Cunningham, Oilprice.comThe latest rally in oil prices ran up against a wall yet again, and the same fears about oversupply have not receded in the slightest. The expectation from most oil analysts is that there is very...
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France Just Made a Big Move Toward a Green Energy Future
By Bate Felix and Simon Carraud, ReutersFrance aims to end the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by 2040 and become carbon neutral 10 years later, Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot said on Thursday at a presentation of measures to keep up...
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Is Cash No Longer King? The Future of Paper Money
By Dana Kornberg, The ConversationOn June 27, the ATM turns 50 . Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker once described it as the “ only useful innovation in banking .” But today, the cash that ATMs dispense may be on the...
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Why Janet Yellen Says We Don't Have to Worry About Another Financial Crisis
By William Schomberg and Marc Jones, ReutersU.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that she does not believe that there will be another financial crisis for at least as long as she lives, thanks largely to reforms of the...
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Why the Global Economy Isn't Even Close to Kicking Its Addiction to Oil
By Robert Rapier, Oilprice.comThe notion that demand for crude oil will soon peak has largely replaced the idea from a decade ago that crude oil production was about to peak for geological reasons. This new idea is that we will...
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A Trillion Dollar Plan to Rebuild the World Makes China the New Global Leader
While most of the world wonders nervously what’s next from the Trump White House, the confident China President Xi Jinping is shifting his bid for global leadership into a full-court press.
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Why We Hate Our Jobs -- and How We Can Learn to Love Work Again
By Jim CliftonWhile the world’s workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in time for more than 30 years.
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Hole in Afghan budget stirs unease as West starts packing bags
By Jeremy Laurence and Mirwais Harooni, ReutersKABUL (Reuters) - A $375 million hole in the Afghan budget is threatening public projects and civil servants' salaries, officials say, putting the aid-dependent economy under stress just as...
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U.S., euro zone activity up; China decline slows
By Rodrigo Campos and Jonathan Cable, ReutersNEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in April and the euro zone private sector started the second quarter on its strongest footing since 2011, while the pace of decline...
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'Bridgegate' scandal threatens next World Trade Center tower
By Hilary Russ, ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The "Bridgegate" scandal that rocked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administration earlier this year is threatening a deal that would allow developer Larry Silverstein to...
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Paying for giant Nile dam itself, Ethiopia thwarts Egypt but takes risks
By Aaron Maasho, ReutersADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile's waters, and may help transform one of the world's poorest...
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Serendipity aids Egypt in struggle to recover stolen heritage
By Stephen Kalin and Tom Perry, ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - When French Egyptologist Olivier Perdu saw a fragment of a pharaonic statue on display in a Brussels gallery last year, he assumed it was a twin of an ancient masterpiece he had...