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Allow Green Cards, H-1B visas for healthcare workers, Senator urges Trump
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise
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Market Ahead, March 27: Top factors that could guide markets today
Crisil yesterday sharply cut its India growth estimate for 2020-21 to 3.5 per cent citing the severe dent in the economic activity due to the coronavirus pandemic
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US Senate offers $58 bn aid to airlines as they struggle to stay afloat
The US Senate passed an industry aid package, half in the form of grants to cover some 750,000 employees' paychecks
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Coronavirus crisis: US Senate passes $2-trn rescue deal to revive economy
The measure cleared the Senate by an overwhelming majority and was headed next to the House of Representatives
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Market Ahead, March 26: All You Need To Know Before The Opening Bell
According to reports, the government is likely to agree a stimulus package of more than Rs 1.5 trillion to fight a downturn caused by the coronavirus lockdown
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Checks to Marshall plan: What's in $2-trn US Senate Covid-19 rescue package
About $500 billion in direct payments to people, in two waves of checks of up to $1,200 per individual making up to $75,000 a year
 "Checks to Marshall plan: What's in $2-trn US Senate Covid-19 rescue package")
Senate Democrats seek $750 billion package to fight coronavirus outbreak
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is floating the proposal as Congress and the White House are quickly developing a third aid package
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Coronavirus: US passes bipartisan bill offering free testing, paid leaves
The bill provides $1.3 billion in emergency food aid for low-income pregnant women and their young children, senior citizens and food banks
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Senators ask Trump to press India reduce hike in Soda Ash import duties
In a letter to US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, the Senators said that thousands of US jobs rely on the soda ash industry and keeping tariffs low will help US workers and economy nationwide
Senate leader McConnell blasts impeachment, says will vote to acquit Trump
McConnell said the two impeachment charges against Trump that he abused his power and obstructed Congress' ensuing investigation are constitutionally incoherent
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Trump on track for acquittal after Senate blocks impeachment witnesses
The Republican Party-controlled US Senate on Friday narrowly rejected the opposition Democrats' motion to call new witnesses and documents for the impeachment trial against US President Donald Trump
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The unspoken charge that should doom Prez Donald Trump: Lawlessness
The aid freeze wasn't part of a legitimate reconsideration of U.S. policy towards Ukraine, which Trump would have been free to initiate
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Trump impeachment: Senate approves trial rules, puts off witnesses
Trump himself claimed he wants top aides to testify, but qualified that by suggesting there were "national security" concerns to allowing their testimony
Trump impeachment trial: Senators brace for silence, no phones, no escape
The pace of today's politics would have been hard to foresee even in early 1999, at the start of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, when smartphones didn't exist.
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Impeachment articles 'brazen' attempt to repeal 2016 results: Trump lawyers
The Senate will decide whether to convict and remove Trump from the office. Political pundits believe that the Senate is unlikely to remove Trump from the office.
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Top US Senator urges Pompeo to press India for quick reversal of CAA, NRC
In a letter to Pompeo on Tuesday, Senator Bob Menendez, a Ranking Member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed concern over the Citizenship Amendment Act
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China to buy $80-billion additional US goods under phase one trade deal
Many economists and experts are dubious about enforcement of the Phase 1 agreement
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Trump impeachment trial likely to begin next Tuesday: Senate chief
Key players in the process could be sworn in later this week, the chamber's Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said
Democrats add last-minute evidence to Trump impeachment case before trial
Senior Democrats said they would include phone records and other documents provided by Florida businessman Lev Parnas when they make their case that Trump
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Republican senators say no to dropping charges against Trump without trial
The Democratic-led US House of Representatives is expected to formally send the charges to the Senate this week, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to help acquit his fellow Republican
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