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• Workers brace for effect of government shutdown Apr 08, 2022 04:04 AM
  
  • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A weather forecaster says he may have to live off the money he's been setting aside for a Caribbean vacation.
  • Federal workers like them across the U.S. will be out of work and without a paycheck if the looming government shutdown isn't averted.
  • The ripple effects stretched far beyond the Washington metro area, where so many federal employees work and live, to places like Chicago, where more than 100 people facing no paychecks protested outside a federal building with signs, "Don't Punish the Public" and "Banks got bailed out, we got sold out."

  • AP Exclusive: Terror suspects held weeks in secret Apr 08, 2022 03:58 AM
    
    • KABUL, Afghanistan - "Black sites," the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone.
    • But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press.
    • The Pentagon has previously denied operating secret jails in Afghanistan, although human rights groups and former detainees have described the facilities.

    • Lefty scrambles his way into contention at Augusta Apr 08, 2022 03:54 AM
      
      • - Phil Mickelson drove it behind towering Georgia pines.
      • No one hit fewer fairways than the defending Masters champion.
      • Mickelson took his lone bogey at the final hole after knocking his second shot over the green, but he still goes into Friday's second round just five strokes behind rising star Rory McIlroy and long-hitting Spaniard Alvaro Quiros, who shared the lead at 7-under 65.

      • EU ministers to wrangle over Portugal bailout deal Apr 08, 2022 03:54 AM
        
        • BUDAPEST, Hungary - European finance ministers will try to work out the size and terms of a rescue loan for Portugal at their meeting in Hungary on Friday and Saturday - but uncertainty persists over how much the caretaker government in Lisbon can offer in return.
        • Portugal submitted an official request for help to the European Commission, the EU's executive, Thursday evening, officially kicking off negotiations for a bailout that had been anticipated for months.
        • Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos now has to convince his 16 eurozone counterparts that Lisbon has the authority to implement reforms and budget cuts designed to get the country's economy back on track.

        • Time's up: Obama and GOP scramble to halt shutdown Apr 08, 2022 03:33 AM
          
          • WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have only hours to avert a midnight Friday government shutdown that they say would inconvenience millions of people and damage a still fragile economy.
          • Obama hoped to announce a deal Friday, but wasn't optimistic.
          • Aides are trying to agree on how much federal spending to slash, where to cut it and what caveats to attach as part of a bill to fund the government through Sept. 30.

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