Representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico kicked off negotiations to update the 23-year-old trade treaty on Aug 16, and announced an ambitiously fast-paced negotiation schedule on Sunday after five days of closed-door talks.
Representing a significant bipartisan compromise, the bill will see the budget cap for discretionary spending rise to .37 trillion in 2020 and .375 trillion in 2021. It includes parity between increases in defense spending and domestic, non-defense outlays, a priority for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat.
Rescuers on Tuesday experienced both heart-breaking and joyful moments as more people trapped in a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou city, Fujian province, were dug out from the debris.
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Rescuers believed that the accident was mainly caused by a parachute failure.
Research published in 2014 by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation wrote that "American largely dithered and allowed the policy environment supporting the competitiveness of its manufacturing industries to wane... Through a combination of inaction and inattention, America's investments in R&D languished over the past decade and a half, as its tax code grew ever less competitive, its industrial commons eroded, and its talent base weakened".
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Responding to the ALP announcement, Prime Minister Scott Morrison whose campaign has been built on the projected surplus and a message of fiscal stability said that the ALP's costings were incomplete.
Residents of Bogor, a satellite city of Jakarta, also had to contend with 14 pythons that were set loose from a private property due to the high waters.
Rescuers evacuate an elderly woman in flooded Deyang, Sichuan province, on Wednesday. Heavy downpours had lashed the province since Monday, forcing the evacuation of more than 40,000 residents. XINHUA
Resident He Lepao, 33, blamed the muddy roads as the reason he dropped out of school at third grade.