WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s use of an emergency declaration to push through arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, telling a hostile House committee that holding back the weapons would have only offered an opening to commercial rivals in China and Russia. In […]
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The federal government’s budget deficit in May rose to a record $207.8 billion, 41.5% higher than a year ago. Most of that increase reflected the impact of calendar quirks that shifted $55 billion in June benefit payments into May. The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the increase in the May deficit from an imbalance of
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Providers of social care in the UK have told Newsnight they have seen a “frightening” decline in the numbers of EU nationals applying for jobs in the sector. Jane Stewart from Peach Nursing said she currently employed just one British carer out of 44. She said a drop in EU nationals applying for jobs meant
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Image copyright Getty Images Almost two-thirds of homebuyers who used the government’s Help to Buy scheme could have bought a home without it, an official report has said. However, they may not have been able to buy the house they wanted without the help, the report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found. It also
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Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest direct evidence of people smoking marijuana from a 2,500-year-old graveyard in western China. In a complex of lofty tombs in the Pamir Mountains — a region near the borders of modern China, Pakistan and Tajikistan — excavators found 10 wooden bowls and several stones containing burnt residue of the cannabis
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In an emotional Instagram post, Durant said the procedure was a success and that despite “hurting deeply,” he’s glad to have played in the game. “I’m proud that I gave it all I physically could, and I’m proud my brothers got the W,” he said of the San Francisco Bay Area team’s win Monday night.
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Wednesday that he did not inform his father at the time about a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and that he was not kept abreast of negotiations over a proposed real estate project in Moscow, a person familiar with
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Martin S. Feldstein, a conservative Harvard economist and a former chief economic adviser in the Reagan administration who was unafraid to publicly disagree with fellow White House officials, died on Tuesday. He was 79. His death was announced in an email sent to colleagues by Jeremy C. Stein, the chairman of Harvard’s economics department. It
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Maine legalized medically assisted suicide on Wednesday, becoming the eighth state to allow terminally ill people to end their lives with prescribed medication. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills, who had previously said she was unsure about the bill, signed it in her office. “It is my hope that this law, while respecting the right to personal
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The Reds got off to a scorching start at the plate before experiencing a scare in the field. Manager David Bell was grateful his team survived it. “We got lucky,” he said. Rookie Nick Senzel and Joey Votto hit back-to-back home runs to open the game before Senzel and José Peraza walked away unhurt following
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