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FILE — Trucks come and go across the Rio Grande between Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Jan. 12, 2019. The escalating impeachment drama between Congress and the White House that has all but doomed hopes of most legislative progress this fall has instead enhanced the prospects for approval, within weeks, of one major initiative: a sweeping new trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times) XNYT49 XNYT49

October 7, 2019 at 12:12 pm

Impeachment fight may help a new NAFTA deal

As a delegation of Democrats heads to Mexico, the impeachment battle could be a plus when it comes to ratifying a new North American trade...

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July 24, 2019 at 11:37 am

Senate confirms former Delta executive to lead FAA

WASHINGTON — The Senate on party lines confirmed Stephen Dickson, a former Delta Air Lines executive, to head the Federal Aviation Administration for a five-year...

July 22, 2019 at 11:34 am

Tentative federal budget would raise spending by $320 billion

WASHINGTON — White House officials and congressional lawmakers are nearing a deal that would boost government spending levels over the next two years and raise...

July 12, 2019 at 2:35 pm

Government could breach debt ceiling in September, Mnuchin warns

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin informed congressional leaders Friday that the government could run out of money in early September, pleading with lawmakers to...

July 7, 2019 at 11:47 am

Trump officials dismiss reports of disease and hunger in border facilities

WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration immigration officials on Sunday contradicted reports that migrant children were being held in horrific conditions in federal detention facilities, arguing...

May 2, 2019 at 1:11 pm

Trump won’t nominate Moore for Fed board

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would not nominate Stephen Moore for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board, the second time...

Business

January 23, 2019 at 9:05 pm

The State of the Union is …: the yearly address, explained VIEW

The State of the Union is, well, unclear. Adding to the unprecedented nature of the longest government shutdown on record, Speaker Nancy Pelosi again revoked...

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and President Donald Trump board Air Force One after a rally in Tupelo, Miss., Nov. 26, 2018. Trump returned to the campaign trail in Mississippi to offer an unabashed endorsement of Hyde-Smith, a Republican candidate under fire for comments that critics said embraced the state’s segregationist history. (Sarah Silbiger/The New York Times) XNYT158 XNYT158 (SARAH SILBIGER / NYT)

November 26, 2018 at 9:16 pm

In Mississippi, Trump campaigns for Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Senate candidate in trouble

Trump told his supporters in Tupelo that a vote for Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Tuesday's would help his administration. Her status has fallen after a...

Nation & World

August 25, 2018 at 8:11 pm

McCain to Lie in State at Capitols in Washington and Arizona

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday at 81, will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and receive a full dress funeral service...

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Amalija and Viktor Knavs, parents of first lady Melania Trump, watch as their attorney Michael Wildes, right, comments after the couple naturalized as U.S. citizens at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in Manhattan, Aug. 9, 2018. (Holly Pickett/The New York Times)

August 10, 2018 at 5:58 am

In ‘chain migration,’ parents of first lady Melania Trump become citizens

President Trump’s Slovenian in-laws, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, became U.S. citizens in a private ceremony, obtaining citizenship through “chain migration.”

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