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Trump pressures Democrats on Obamacare to get border wall deal

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaks at a signing ceremony at the Treasury Department in Washington, U.S., April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein President Donald Trump put pressure on Democrats on Sunday as U.S. ... More »

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Uphill battle looms as Trump seeks revamped healthcare plan

FILE PHOTO: Protesters demonstrate against U.S. President Donald Trump and his plans to end Obamacare outside the White House in Washington, U.S., March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo President Donald Trump, striving to make good on a top campaign... More »

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Senator talks all night as Democrats fight Trump court nominee

Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) speaks to reporters following leaving the Senate floor after delivering a 15 hour speech against Judge Neil Gorsuch on Capitol Hill Washington, D.C., U.S., April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein A Democratic senator delivered a 1... More »

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House will not reach healthcare deal before two-week break

U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) departs a health care meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer Deep divisions cut short Republican hopes for a quick revival of Obamacare replacement legislation on Wedn... More »

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House won`t vote on healthcare law before break: lawmaker

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence departs a healthcare meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Thayer The U.S. House of Representatives will not vote on a bill to replace the Obama administration’s signature healthcare law befo... More »

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Trump talks healthcare with Republican critic on golf course

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks to the media about repealing Obamacare after playing golf with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 2, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts President Donald Trump golfed with a vocal Republican criti... More »

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Ryan opposes Trump working with Democrats on healthcare

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) speaks during his news conference after Republicans pulled the American Health Care Act bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act act known as Obamacare, prior to a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. March 24,... More »

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Trump administration pursues sale of F-16`s to Bahrain: source

FILE PHOTO: A U.S. Lockheed Martin F-16 flies during an air display at the Farnborough International Air Show, Hampshire, July 19, 2004. REUTERS/Toby Melville TM/MD/DL President Donald Trump’s administration has informed Congress of its plan to pursue the $5 b... More »

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FDA nominee moves to untangle potential conflicts of interest

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is seen in this American Enterprise Institute photo released in Washington, DC, U.S., March 10, 2017. Courtesy The American Enterprise Institute/Handout via REUTERS Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Food a... More »

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G20 ministers give Mnuchin space to define Trump trade agenda

FILE PHOTO – U.S.Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. on February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Wary of their first official encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump’s blustery trad... More »

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Republicans weigh health bill changes as doubts mount

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell departs after speaking with the media following the Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein The White House and congressional leaders said on Tuesda... More »

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Senate Intelligence chairman plans public hearing on Russia

Committee Chairman U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) questions former U.S. Senator Dan Coats (R-IN) as he testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on his nomination to be Director of National Intelligence in Washington February 28, 2017. REU... More »

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Trump budget opens new fight among Republicans

President Donald Trump makes remarks to the press as he sits down for a working lunch with members of his cabinet and their spouses, including Veteran’s Administration Secretary David Shulkin (L) and Labor Secretary Wilbur Ross (R), at Trump National Golf Club... More »

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Trump tests dealmaker image to sell healthcare bill

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a listening session with CEOs of small and community banks at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo President Donald Trump has launched a charm offensive of the type... More »

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Congressional panels approve SEC capital formation bills

Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Mike Crapo (R-ID) hearing listens to testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen on the “Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., Febru... More »

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Republican health plan clears first hurdles, fate uncertain

A copy of Obamacare repeal and replace recommendations (L) produced by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sit next to a copy of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price addresses the daily p... More »

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China gives greenlight to dozens of Trump trademarks

The headquarters of the China Trademark Office is seen in Beijing, China, March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee China has granted preliminary approval for 38 trademarks linked to Donald Trump, documents on China’s state trademark office show, giving the U.S. Presid... More »

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Senate approves Carson for housing secretary job

Dr. Ben Carson is sworn in to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 12, 20... More »

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No cuts to U.S. entitlement programs in Trump budget: Mnuchin

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 14, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque U.S. President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal will spare big social welfare programs such as Social Security an... More »

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Trump taps ex-labor board member Acosta to be labor secretary

R. Alexander Acosta exits U.S. District Court with other attorneys at U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida June 19, 2008. REUTERS/Joe Skipper President Donald Trump on Thursday nominated former National Labor Relations Board member R. Alexander Acos... More »

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Ex-Goldman banker Mnuchin installed as Treasury secretary

U.S. President Donald Trump (L) watches as Vice President Mike Pence (R) swears in Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary next to his fiancée Louise Linton in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas President Donald... More »

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Senate expected to confirm Mnuchin as Treasury secretary

Steven Mnuchin testifies before a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be Treasury secretary in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts The U.S. Senate is expected to confirm former Goldman Sachs banker and Holl... More »

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Democrats question independence of Trump Supreme Court nominee

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch arrives for a meeting with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas Democratic U.S. senators on Monday sharpened a potential line of attack against Neil Gor... More »

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Trump ignites political fight over U.S. banking law reforms

After signing, U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order rolling back regulations from the 2010 Dodd-Frank law on Wall Street reform at the White House in Washington February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday o... More »

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U.S. Senators McCain, Graham to support Tillerson nomination

Rex Tillerson (C) takes his seat between former Senator Sam Nunn (L) and Senator Ted Cruz (R), who introduced Tillerson, for his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing to become U.S. Secretary of State on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. Janua... More »

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Trump vows `insurance for everybody` in replacing Obamacare

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson U.S. President-elect Donald Trump aims to replace Obamacare with a plan that would envisage... More »

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House votes to begin repealing Obamacare

A bill repealing Obamacare sits on a desk after being signed by U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst U.S. House Republicans on Friday won passage of a measure starting the process of dism... More »

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U.S. Republicans start framework for Obamacare replacement

The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as ”Obamacare”, outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. on October 4... More »

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Democrats want 9/11-style special commission to probe Russia

A rainy, gray sky tops the U.S. Capitol dome on the first day of the new session of Congress in Washington, U.S. January 3, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Democratic members of the U.S. Congress called on Monday for the creation of an independent commission to i... More »

Senators call for panel to investigate Russian hacking

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar Four Senators on Sunday called for the creation of a bipartisan investigative panel that wo... More »

John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies at 95

STS-95 crewmember, astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn poses for his official NASA photo taken April 14, 1998. Courtesy NASA/Handout via REUTERS John Glenn, who became one of the 20th century’s greatest explorers as the first American to orbit Earth and late... More »

Trump says hopes for Cuban `freedom` after Castro death

U.S. President elect Donald Trump walks up a staircase to depart the lobby of the New York Times building after a meeting in New York, U.S., November 22, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday that his administration wou... More »

Zika spreads to Miami Beach, U.S. expands travel warning

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen inside Oxitec laboratory in Campinas, Brazil, February 2, 2016. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mo... More »

U.S. declares a Zika public health emergency in Puerto Rico

By Julie Steenhuysen | CHICAGO CHICAGO The Obama administration on Friday declared a public health emergency in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, saying the rapid and widespread transmission of the Zika virus threatens the health of infected pregnant women an... More »

Clinton urges U.S. Congress to reconvene, pass Zika bill

MIAMI U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton urged federal lawmakers currently on summer recess back into session to pass a crucial funding bill to combat the Zika virus as she visited a health clinic at the heart of a local outbreak in Miami o... More »

NASA’s new mission: improving food security in West Africa

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A drive by NASA to stream climate data to West African nations using its earth-observing satellites could boost crop production in a region hit hard by climate change, experts say. NASA last week launched a hub in Niger’s c... More »

Congress moves to revamp toxic chemical law

WASHINGTON Legislation with bipartisan support that would revamp U.S. chemical safety law for the first time in decades is advancing in Congress, winning overwhelming passage in the House of Representatives as backers sought quick Senate action. Senate leaders... More »

Supreme Court nominee to submit questionnaire to lawmakers

WASHINGTON U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, will submit a filled-out questionnaire and other information to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to spur a vote on his nomination, the White House said. “The quest... More »