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AP reader question: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online?

Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Deanna: Experts disagree on whether the Democrat-blaming language on the website of HUD and various other government agencies reaches the threshold of violating the 1939 Hatch Act, ...
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Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday that it would pay migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t ...
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Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded Friday as Democrats refused to budge in a Senate vote and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal government. On the ...
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs gets 50 months in prison

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for his conviction on two prostitution-related offenses.He gets credit for time served since his arrest. Combs has already spent 12 months at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.Before ...
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Union Pacific locomotive engineers ratify new five-year contract

(Reuters) -Locomotive engineers at Union Pacific voted to ratify a new five-year contract with the railroad operator, the BLET-Teamsters union said on Friday. Under the new contract, nearly 6,000 members represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a ...
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AbbVie expects $2.7 billion R&D charge in third quarter, lowers annual profit forecast

(Reuters) -AbbVie expects third-quarter earnings to include a $2.7 billion charge related to in-process research and development (IPR&D) expenses, the drugmaker said in a regulatory filing on Friday. It also forecast third-quarter adjusted earnings per share in the range of ...
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Key Democrat blasts ‘abrupt’ end of popular US tariff exemption for package shipments

By David Lawder and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee accused the Trump administration of having inadequate customs procedures in place as it ended the “de minimis” U.S. tariff exemption for packages valued ...
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Takeaways from AP’s interview with the only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown

Nearly seven months after the Trump administration cracked down on pro-Palestinian activists, the only one still jailed is breaking her silence, recounting how the suffering of family members in Gaza drove her to protest. Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the ...
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Federal shutdown hurts services for Native Americans and they worry worse is coming

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to health care, education, infrastructure and other services funded by Washington under treaties struck more than a century ago. Tribal nations with casinos, ...
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No payrolls, no problem as Wall Street extends run of highs

By Marc Jones and Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -World stocks were on course for a solid weekly gain and more record highs as the seemingly unstoppable rally in tech shares and expectations of lower U.S. interest rates helped ...
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Exclusive-Trump considering significant tariff relief for US vehicle production, US senator says

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is considering significant tariff relief for U.S. auto production that could effectively eliminate much of the costs major car companies are paying, Republican Senator Bernie Moreno and auto officials told Reuters ...
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Trump wants to cut federal aid to Portland as his anger with protesters grows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has directed his team to review federal aid to Portland, Oregon, that can be cut as his anger with the city’s anti-government and anti-fascism protesters mounts, the White House said on Friday. ...
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