Government shutdown will cost economy up to $14 billion
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25 states and DC sue Trump admin over SNAP benefits
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune said talks among rank-and-file senators aimed at ending the government shutdown have ramped up.
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US government allowed and even helped US firms sell tech used for surveillance in China, AP finds
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police,
The federal government officially entered a shutdown at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday amid an impasse on Capitol Hill over competing congressional spending bills.
With the U.S. government shutdown threatening to freeze October’s inflation report, the Treasury is expected to deploy a workaround to compute the index underpinning the $2.1 trillion market for inflation-protected bonds for the first time since their 1997 launch,
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The US government is still shut down. Here's what's been happening — and why it could last a long time
The US government shut down 10 days ago, and there's little indication that it will reopen anytime soon. At the center of it all is healthcare.
The national debt is rising faster than ever and threatens to undermine confidence in the economy, experts warn.
Since 1976, Congress and the White House have faced off over budgets and brought the U.S. government to a near halt more than 20 times.
Follow live updates as President Donald Trump continues his three-country Asia tour with a final stop in South Korea, where he'll meet with China's Xi Jinping.
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