Fast-approaching debt deadline jolts a flat-footed Congress

One party or the other is going to have to blink in the debt ceiling standoff. The question is when. Washington’s frozen negotiations over the imminent breach of the nation’s borrowing limit thawed for the first time in months Monday night as the four top congressional leaders agreed to meet with…

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