NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump is set to announce Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon and vociferous critic of the Affordable Care Act, as health and human services secretary, two sources told Reuters.
CANNON BALL, N.D. North Dakota's governor ordered the expulsion of thousands of Native American and environmental activists camped on federal property near an oil pipeline project they are trying to halt, citing hazards posed by harsh winter weather as a blizzard bore down on the area.
Texas health officials on Monday reported the state's first case of Zika likely spread by local mosquitoes, making Texas the second state within the continental United States to report local transmission of the virus that has been linked to birth defects.
HAVANA Tens of thousands of Cubans, some wrapped in red, white and blue national flags, paid final respects in Havana on Monday to Fidel Castro, who led a leftist revolution, ruled for half a century and resisted the United States throughout the Cold War.
NEW YORK Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Monday criticized Wells Fargo & Co's decision to require customers affected by its unauthorized accounts scandal to go through arbitration rather than allowing them to sue.
SYDNEY Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES Influential pop star Prince will be celebrated over a four-day festival at his Paisley Park Studios compound in Minnesota on the first anniversary of his death, organizers said on Monday.
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| Name | Yield | Change |
|---|---|---|
| US 10YR |
+2.312
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-0.008 |
| DE 10YR |
+0.193
|
+0.003 |
| JP 10YR |
+0.015
|
-0.002 |
| Name | USD | EUR | JPY |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD | 1 | 1.0599 | 0.0089 |
| EUR | 0.9435 | 1 | 0.0084 |
| JPY | 111.9200 | 118.6200 | 1 |
| Index | Last | Chg |
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| Gold |
1,190.80
USD
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+0.00
Exp: Dec2016
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| Copper |
2.61
USD
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-0.05
Exp: Nov2016
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| Crude Oil |
46.79
USD
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-0.29
Exp: Dec2016
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NEW YORK U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is set to name Indiana health policy consultant Seema Verma as his pick for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a transition official told Reuters on Monday.
