Our most-read: From USMCA to Japan to China, deals inch forward

Updates on those deals – and the latest on the Appellate Board Crisis. Democrats turn upbeat on USMCA talks: ‘Still a ways to go’ . “The sense is that progress is being made,” said one House Democrat of ongoing negotiations to resolve issues surrounding approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. And House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), who heads a working group of House Democrats negotiating USMCA issues with the administration, said “ we are firming it up...