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By Lucia Mutikani and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Alternate data from public and private sources, a substitute for official statistics delayed by a government shutdown, showed the U.S. job market likely remained stalled in September with sluggish hiring but no change in an unemployment rate economists see as influenced by falling numbers of foreign-born workers. The …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department is closing a task force that took on drug cartels and an office that aimed to ease racial tensions, in a reorganization that drops a plan to merge the nation’s top drug and gun law enforcement agencies, documents seen by Reuters show. The most sweeping …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will draw a red line on how long to give Hamas to accept an Israel-backed proposal to halt fighting in Gaza, the White House said on Thursday, without explicitly saying whether he would enforce a previously set deadline. Trump on Tuesday said he would give Hamas three to four …

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By Bo Erickson and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Crucial food assistance for about 6.7 million low-income Americans has been put in jeopardy by a federal government shutdown that the deeply divided U.S. Congress shows no signs of resolving swiftly. The threat to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. government layoffs could be in the thousands, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday as the federal government began the second day of a shutdown. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Caitlin Webber)