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Union Pacific in early-stage talks with Norfolk Southern to create $200bn rail colossus
Union Pacific Railroad is in early-stage talks with rival Norfolk Southern for a nearly $200bn merger that would create a transcontinental US railroad giant, according to people familiar with the ...
The House is poised to OK Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is expected late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Republicans target ...
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Dossier Hotel, Founded by Gordon Sondland, Faces Foreclosure
The move indicates that downtown Portland is still a tough neighborhood for the boutique hotels that helped define it.
An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge lifted a sweeping gag order Thursday in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case. Bryan ...
Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope
The federal money is appropriated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes it to NPR and PBS. Roughly 70 ...
Nationwide strike by Republic sanitation workers in the US poses need for fight against Teamsters bureaucracy
The same playbook used by the AFSCME union to sabotage the city workers’ strike in Philadelphia is now being used by the ...
Border Patrol raids Home Depot parking lot in Sacramento; multiple people arrested
Masked Border Patrol agents on Thursday raided a Home Depot parking lot in the south Sacramento area, resulting in multiple ...