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Then, lifting one spindly leg at a time, she took a tentative step toward them.

A planned labor strike by University of California nurses has been called off after the university system and the nurses’ union reached a tentative deal on pay and benefits, both groups announced Sunday.

The tentative agreement covers 300 locomotive engineers on the Soo Line property operating trains in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin.

U.S. stock futures gained Sunday, despite coming off the worst week for tech stocks since April, as investors welcomed a tentative Senate deal that may soon end the government shutdown.

The Associated Press reported a tentative agreement had been reached that has the support of some moderate Democrats that would extend government funding through January, with the promise of a healthcare-subsidy vote in December.