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Rep. MORE (R-Ala.) won the backing of the conservative group FreedomWorks on Friday amid the highly contentious Alabama Republican Senate race. "It is becoming clearer every day that we need members of Congress who will not only vote the right way but actually fight for free-market, limited government principles," FreedomWorks PAC president Adam Brandon said in a statement. "Mo Brooks is the best candidate to drain the swamp.

House action on a must-past aviation bill will be pushed back to September, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

With lawmakers only scheduled to be in town for one more day, it seemed likely that the timeline for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill would slip until after the August recess.

But supporters of the plan had hoped they could whip up enough support to get a floor vote this week, which would give them more time in September to negotiate a final product with the Senate.

A stock market hitting record highs. Foreign corporations announcing big new plants in the United States.

At any given moment, there is a large group of citizens who want nothing more than to make absolutely certain that they are impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid sooner rather than later. Someday, you might be one of them. Welcome to the (perfectly legal) world of Medicaid planning, the plain-vanilla term for the mini-industry of lawyers and others who help people arrange their financial lives so they don’t spend every last dime on a nursing home.

If you’re a bit scared about investing your money right now, you’re not alone. I’ve received many emails and comments recently from people who have money to invest. They even know how it should be invested. But they just can’t get themselves to put the money into the stock market. Why are they scared? Many of them cite the fact that markets are at record highs and the endless stream of uncertainty in the news. Feel that way yourself? Well guess what: You don’t have to invest the money. Really, it’s true! Funny, but even as I type these words, I feel a sense of relief.

From 1828 to 1830, a Gowanus landowner, Adriance Van Brunt, paused several times a week to record in a diary the events of that day he deemed worthy of mention. The diary, in neatly inked handwriting stretching from edge to edge, offers a detailed portrait of farm life near what was then the Village of Brooklyn. There is a summary of a preacher’s Sunday sermon — “ye are my witness” — and the dutiful accountings of purchases and sales. “Little Albert took some potatoes and pears to market,” Van Brunt wrote one day in 1828.

In a test of labor’s ability to expand its reach in the South, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi have overwhelmingly rejected a bid to unionize. Out of roughly 3,500 employees at the Canton-based plant who voted Thursday and Friday, more than 60 percent opposed the union.

NEW HAVEN — When Dave Mason left jail in October 2015 after his 14th criminal conviction, the odds were good that he would soon end up dead. A man with a longtime heroin addiction, Mr. Mason was entering one of the deadliest windows for jailed users returning to the streets: the first two weeks after release, when they often make the mistake of returning to a dose their body can no longer handle. Standing outside the New Haven Correctional Center, clutching his few belongings in a brown paper bag, Mr. Mason appeared precariously close to taking that path. His ride never showed up.

NEW HAVEN — When Dave Mason left jail in October 2015 after his 14th criminal conviction, the odds were good that he would soon end up dead. A man with a longtime heroin addiction, Mr. Mason was entering one of the deadliest windows for jailed users returning to the streets: the first two weeks after release, when they often make the mistake of returning to a dose their body can no longer handle. Standing outside the New Haven Correctional Center, clutching his few belongings in a brown paper bag, Mr. Mason appeared precariously close to taking that path. His ride never showed up.