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By Bo Erickson, Richard Cowan and Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A handful of U.S. Senate Republicans are wrestling with the impending expiration of health insurance subsidies that are the primary sticking point in the government shutdown standoff that entered its 13th day on Monday. The lawmakers have not voted in favor of a proposal …

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(This Oct 11 story has been refiled without any changes to the text.) By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected the Trump administration’s request to immediately allow the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, leaving in place a lower court’s order that blocked the mobilization temporarily. In a brief order, …

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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday labeling changes for the blood cancer therapy of Johnson & Johnson and its partner Legend Biotech to include a warning for a potentially fatal gastrointestinal condition.  Such a warning appears on the medicine’s label and is the most serious issued by the FDA. The FDA …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The ongoing shutdown debate between Democrats and President Donald Trump’s Republicans is largely avoiding the difficult fiscal issues clouding the country’s future – the rising national debt and the long-term financial health of Social Security and Medicare. The fifteenth partial federal government shutdown since 1981 has been sparked by Democrats’ demand for …

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By Patricia Reaney (Reuters) -Diane Keaton, the quirky U.S. actress who won an Academy Award and captured hearts with her performance as Woody Allen’s eccentric, insecure girlfriend in the 1977 romantic comedy “Annie Hall,” has died at the age of 79. Rizzoli, a publishing company that released several of Keaton’s books, confirmed her death in …

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(Reuters) -Investigators now believe a massive blast at a Tennessee military explosives facility killed 16 people, officials said on Saturday. Officials had previously said 18 people were unaccounted for in Friday’s explosion, but two people whose vehicles and personal items were found at the scene were not actually there when the blast erupted, Humphreys County …

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