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Your Evening Briefing

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening will deliver his second State of the Union address to Congress. The House chamber will be full of Democrats jostling to challenge his re-election, with many female lawmakers planning to dress in suffragette white and his chief antagonist Nancy Pelosi seated at the dais behind him. The appearance will be shadowed by the threat of another government shutdown and comes mere hours after the Senate rebuked the president over his Syria policies.

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Trump has decided he won’t declare a national emergency on the U.S. border with Mexico during his speech, sources tell Bloomberg News. Of course, the president could always change his mind.

For some politicians, providing the official State of the Union response has been career gold. For others, not so much. So where are they now?

Ketamine could be the key to reversing America's rising suicide rate. A version of the club drug is expected to approved for depression in March, Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

The crypto exchange founder who died holding the only passwords able to unlock millions in customer coins had filed his will just 12 days before his death.

The NRA spent a record $9.6 million lobbying a gun-friendly president and Republican-controlled Congress over the last two years, with little to show for it.

Apple reclaimed the mantle of the world's most valuable company on Tuesday—but at a much lower level than its former peak.

What's Joe Weisenthal thinking about? The Bloomberg news director is weighing the pros and cons of various "safe havens." Gold will always have buyers, but it's difficult to store, protect or move as Nicolas Maduro recently learned. Cryptocurrencies may be "safe" because you control them, but the CEO of the exchange where you keep your coins may die unexpectedly, taking his passwords to the grave. 

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It boasts a gym, pool, gallery, beauty salon and helipad—not to mention space for sleeping 22 guests—and it’s up for sale at around half its purchase price. Yet finding a buyer for the 300-foot superyacht Equanimity, one of the most striking assets at the heart of the 1MDB scandal, is not proving to be an easy task.

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