President Donald Trump is heading to Miami on Wednesday — the anniversary of his reelection to a second term — to speak to a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney promised his first budget would be a bold blueprint for "generational investments," to bolster the economy and withstand a trade war with the U.S., but to some analysts Tuesday's document was a missed opportunity.

The government shutdown is heading into record territory and that could be bad news for the American economy. The need to come up with a solution could become more critical. Currently around 1.4 million government employees are on unpaid leave or working without pay.

Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.

Aboard were Britain’s King Charles III and defence secretary John Healey; John Phelan, the US secretary of the navy; and assorted other dignitaries. They were in Barrow to watch the commissioning of HMS Agamemnon,

Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing’s “bulwark” against conflicts.

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