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By Kanishka Singh and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat and Republican in the U.S. Congress on Sunday agreed on a $1.59 trillion spending deal, setting up a race for bitterly divided lawmakers to pass the bills that would appropriate the money before the government begins to shut down this month. Since early last …

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By Joseph Ax and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City’s historic, two-year snow drought may not come to an end this weekend, despite the arrival of a winter storm system that began passing through the most populous U.S. city and across the East Coast on Saturday. The city’s 8.5 million residents have not …

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By Phil Stewart and Hannah Lang WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization was kept far more secret than previously known, officials disclosed on Sunday, adding his deputy to a long list of people right up to President Joe Biden who were kept in the dark for days. Austin, who is 70, was admitted …

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By David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher (Reuters) – Safety checks on some Boeing jets hit a snag over paperwork on Sunday, as U.S. authorities searched for a missing panel that blew off a new Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet in midair on Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday ordered the temporary grounding …

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By Phil Stewart and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday for an unspecified medical matter, the Pentagon said late on Friday, without detailing why he was being treated or why it kept his hospital stay secret all week. Austin, who is 70, sits just below President Joe …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) -Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday marked the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol with remarks in South Carolina, where the state’s Democratic primary will be held on Feb. 3. Harris spoke on the anniversary of the deadly attacks after Biden offered scathing criticism of …

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