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Shareholders of Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern support $85 billion rail merger

OMAHA, Neb. — Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads' proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation's first coast-to-coast rail network. Roughly 99% of both railroads' shareholders voted to support the largest rail merger in history Friday, but the U.S. ...

Kansas delegation divides along party lines on shutdown

TOPEKA — The U.S. House delegation from Kansas split along partisan lines Wednesday on the appropriations legislation drawing to a close the longest federal government shutdown in the nation’s history. Republican U.S. Reps. Derek Schmidt, Tracey Mann and Ron Estes voted with the 222-209 ...

US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela in flex of American military power

WASHINGTON — The most advanced U.S. aircraft carrier is expected to reach the waters off Venezuela in days, a flex of American military power not seen in Latin America for generations. Experts disagree on the possibility that American warplanes will catapult off the USS Gerald R. Ford to ...