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Democrats frame Trump ballroom as symbol of Republican disconnect from voters’ affordability woes

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Democrats hoping to win control of Congress in November's elections are seizing on Republicans' support of President Donald Trump's proposed $400 million White House ballroom to portray his party as out of ...
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Rising diesel costs from Iran war strain US school budgets

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, May 16 (Reuters) - Soaring diesel prices since the onset of the Iran war are draining already tight U.S. school district budgets, making it more expensive to bus students and run generators in a shock ...
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Republican Cassidy faces Trump retribution effort in Louisiana Senate primary

By David Morgan May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican moderate targeted for retribution by President Donald Trump, will find out whether he can survive a primary election in Louisiana on Saturday against two popular rivals, including ...
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FDA drug center head fired after commissioner’s exit

May 16 (Reuters) - The acting head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug center, Tracey Beth Hoeg, said she had been fired from the agency. Reuters first reported Hoeg was expected to leave the FDA on Friday, just ...
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When should you get a mammogram? Conflicting advice makes it hard to know

WASHINGTON (AP) - Deciding when to get routine mammograms is confusing. Some health groups recommend women begin at age 40 or 45 while another recently opted for age 50. They also differ on whether yearly or every other year ...
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Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree

By Brad Brooks WIGGINS, Colorado, May 16 (Reuters) - Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and-green gasoline price sign, which she said seemed to tick up daily. The price ...
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Brass bands in Beijing make way for sticker shock at home as Trump returns to escalating inflation

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump returned from the spectacle of a Chinese state visit to a less than welcoming U.S. economy - with the military band and garden tour in Beijing giving way to pressure over how to ...
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North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike

NEW YORK (AP) - North America's largest commuter rail system was shut down Saturday after unionized workers in the New York City area went on strike. The Long Island Rail Road that serves the city's eastern suburbs ceased operations ...
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What to know about the mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York judge declared a mistrial Friday in Harvey Weinstein 's rape case from the #MeToo-era that has gone to trial three times so far after a jury was unable to come to a ...
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Head of Harvard’s $57 billion endowment, plans to retire, WSJ reports

May 16 (Reuters) - The head of Harvard University's nearly $57 billion endowment, N.P. Narvekar, has told its board that he plans to retire, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Friday, citing sources. The report said that Narvekar had ...
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Trump says Islamic State group leader was killed in a joint US-Nigerian mission

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Nigeria in a mission carried out Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said. Trump announced the joint operation in Africa's most populous country in a ...
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Walmart and Amazon race to win over rural America with speedier deliveries

PEA RIDGE, Ark. (AP) - Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too ...
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