Two GOP senators break ranks on final Senate budget vote

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) broke ranks Thursday morning and voted against a budget proposal that could set the stage for ending the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. Murkowski, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, opposed the budget proposal because it would lay the groundwork for……

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‘We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history,’ IEA chief tells CNBC. Watch live

“We are facing the biggest energy security threat in history,” Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), told CNBC Thursday. “As of today, we’ve lost 13 million barrels per day of oil … and there are major disruptions in vital commodities,” he told Steve Sedgwick virtually at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE in Singapore. Birol…

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