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Shutdown looms as US Senate, House advance separate spending plans
WASHINGTON : The Democratic-led US Senate forged ahead on Thursday with a bipartisan stopgap funding bill aimed at averting a fourth partial government shutdown in…
US House votes to avert debt default, setting up Senate showdown
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers voted Wednesday to raise the national borrowing limit as a crucial first step to averting a catastrophic default, greenlighting a pact struck…
US House poised to vote on urgently needed debt ceiling suspension
WASHINGTON: Legislation brokered by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to lift the $31.4 trillion US debt ceiling and achieve new federal spending…
China-launched sat drops junk near Taipei, hits flights
TAIPEI: Flights out of northern Taiwan were delayed on Sunday after China launched a rocket carrying a satellite that dropped debris into waters north of…
US House votes to declassify info about origins of Covid-19
WASHINGTON: The House voted unanimously Friday to declassify US intelligence information about the origins of Covid-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third…