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Exclusive – Trump border `wall` to cost $21.6 billion, take 3.5 years to build: internal report

Exclusive – Trump border `wall` to cost $21.6 billion, take 3.5 years to build: internal report

Published 10/02/2017

A Donald Trump for President campaign sticker is shown attached to a U.S. Customs sign hanging on the border fence between Mexico and the United States near Calexico, California, U.S. February 8, 2017. Picture taken February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake

President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

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Exclusive: Labor Department to delay, revisit fiduciary rule – sources

Exclusive: Labor Department to delay, revisit fiduciary rule – sources

Published 10/02/2017

The U.S. Labor Department is preparing to delay its controversial Obama-era fiduciary rule on financial advice for 180 days and seek public comment on the rule.

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Exclusive: SpaceX to hit fastest launch pace with new Florida site – executive

Exclusive: SpaceX to hit fastest launch pace with new Florida site – executive

Published 07/02/2017

An exterior of the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California May 29, 2014. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

Space Exploration Technologies Corp, better known as SpaceX, plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010, once a new launch pad is put into service in Florida next week, the company's president told Reuters on Monday.

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Exclusive: Boeing`s space taxis to use more than 600 3D-printed parts

Exclusive: Boeing`s space taxis to use more than 600 3D-printed parts

Published 03/02/2017

Product Development Engineer Jigar Patel works with a CAD image of a thrust reverser cascade in development at Oxford Performance Materials Inc., the maker of more than 600 parts to be used on Boeing's new Starliner manned spacecraft, in South Windsor, Connecticut, the maker of more than 600 parts to be used on Boeing's new Starliner manned spacecraft, in South Windsor, Connecticut, U.S., January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Boeing Co has hired a small company to make about 600 3D-printed parts for its Starliner space taxis, meaning key components in the United States manned space program are being built with additive manufacturing.

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