Focus in US shifts from government shutdown to fiscal deadline

Government shutdown moved to back burner as Treasury warns of crisis worse than 2008 recession if country doesn't pay its bills by October 17 With the US federal government shutdown dragging on, both sides of the dispute that started with a Republican drive to end Obamacare shifted their focus to the next fiscal deadline: the need to raise the debt ... (more)

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