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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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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,...
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Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States
By Valerie Volcovici, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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Trump's drug czar nominee withdraws from consideration
By Sarah N. Lynch and Makini Brice, ReutersWASHINGTON (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...
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U.S. consumer finance agency expected to punish Equifax: lawyers
By Reuters and Patrick RuckerBy Lisa Lambert and Patrick Rucker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. consumer finance watchdog agency is expected to punish Equifax for its cyber breach with the wide-ranging powers it has used with...
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Congress sends Trump disaster aid, debt limit increase
By Richard Cowan and Amanda Becker, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to provide disaster aid, extend the debt ceiling and fund the federal government for three months on Friday, delivering on...
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Congress Must Raise Debt Ceiling by Mid-October: CBO
By Ginger Gibson, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress will need to raise the nation's debt limit by early to mid-October to avoid defaulting on loan payments, the Congressional Budget Office said in a report on...
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The Five Largest US Banks are Launching Their Venmo 'Killer'
By David Henry and Anna Irrera, ReutersThe U.S. banking industry is about to launch its answer to the popular mobile payments app Venmo, in what is likely to be the biggest change in years in how individuals exchange funds digitally. Over...
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Forget Trump, Here's What's Driving Stocks Higher
By Alex Rosenberg, CNBCIt looks like investor hopes about President Donald Trump will go unfulfilled, but stocks will keep rising anyway, according to famed investment strategist Byron Wien. "At the beginning of the year,...
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Are the Banks Flashing a Warning Sign for the Economy?
By Jeff Cox, CNBCDespite high levels of economic confidence expressed by business owners and consumers, one key indicator shows that it has not translated into much action yet. Loan issuance declined in the first...
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Why Investors Are Moving to Cash
By Jeff Cox, CNBCInvestors are going to the mattresses, stuffing their money away until they get better clarity on the Fed's intentions for interest rates. Of course, the move hasn't been to actual mattresses but an...
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Here's Why Oil Prices Are at 7-Year Lows
By Barani Krishnan and Karolin Schaps, ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Crude oil futures tumbled 6 percent on Monday, reaching their lowest in nearly seven years, after OPEC failed to address a growing supply glut, while a stronger dollar made it...
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GM to Start Importing Buicks from China to the US
By DETROIT, Reuters(Reuters) - By next summer, the Buick Envision small SUV will become the first General Motors model imported from China to be sold in the United States, the company said on Friday. Reuters reported...
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Here’s Why Wall Street Bonuses Will Be Smaller This Year
Workers in the finance industry — among the highest paid employees in the country — will be taking home a little less this year. Year-end bonuses on Wall Street are expected to be 5 percent to 10...
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Can the Economy Be Weak and Strong at the Same Time?
By Jeff Cox, CNBCWall Street strategists who normally live and breathe data are now pushing a curious new narrative: Don't believe the data. More specifically, it's become routine practice lately to disparage...