Senate Passes Delayed Budget Deal in Bid to End US Shutdown

Representative Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat, urged his party to kill the bill unless it includes a path to protecting young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children and have been protected under the soon-to-end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. He said that if the …

A woman stops to photograph the New York Stock Exchange, (NYSE) as snow begins to fall during the morning commute in New York City, U.S., … Winter weather across the United States over the last several days has killed several people in accidents in the Midwest since Monday, including six in Iowa, …

Any institution receiving grant monies from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) must now inform the agency if it finds that anyone funded by the grant proposal has committed sexual harassment. The policy will take effect after a 60-day public-comment period ends. Until now, “we haven’t had a …

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel on Friday that it too would need to make “significant compromises” for peace with the … 6 recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, a move overturning decades of U.S. reticence on the city’s status, and say they are looking at additional …

The stockpile is kept inside a network of underground caverns and storage tanks along the U.S. Gulf Coast and has a capacity of 700 million barrels, making it the world’s largest supply of emergency crude oil. It was created in 1970s after the Arab oil embargo sent prices skyrocketing and forced Americans …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. immigration agency has changed its handling of asylum cases so more recent claims are judged first, officials said on … Asylum seekers regularly wait five years or more for their cases to be heard, and U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Services had a backlog of 311,000 …

In an announcement likely to be welcomed by President Donald Trump, the company said it plans to construct a new U.S. facility and ramp up its … Apple on Wednesday announced it’s planning to create 20,000 new jobs and invest $350 billion into the U.S. economy over the next five years – a move that’s …

The end of a ban on U.S. exports in 2015 coupled with the explosive growth of shale production, has changed the flow of petroleum around the world. Shipments from U.S. ports have increased from a little more than 100,000 barrels a day in 2013 to 1.53 million in November, traveling as far as China and …

But U.S. equity futures gained as Congress passed a delayed budget deal, suggesting a measure of calm may return to markets after a selloff that wiped about $5 trillion from global stocks since January. Core European bonds steadied. China’s benchmark fell the most in almost two years earlier, while the …

8, 2018. U.S. stocks are lower Thursday morning as losses from the previous day continue. … While the more than 1,000 point tumble in the Dow Jones industrial average led the market lower, the U.S. dollar’s weakening against the Japanese yen also hurt export manufacturers’ shares. ___. 4 p.m..