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EU Wants To Include Financial Services In U.S. Trade Talks
The European Union's top trade official said on Saturday he wants financial services to be included in negotiations on an ambitious EU-U.S. free trade pact. The United States and the 27-nation EU ...Drought Conditions Improve In U.S. Plains: Report
Drought continued to retreat in many areas of the U.S. Plains last week as snow and rainfall replenished parched soils and gave farmers and ranchers an improved outlook for better crop and livestock ...National Weather Service Chief Focused on Improving Forecasting
Computing power gives Europeans a commanding advantage when it comes to weather forecasting and storm tracking, but the new head of the National Weather Service hopes to see the United States regain ...Ex-JPMorgan Execs Pressed About $6B Trading Loss At Senate Hearing
Two former high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase faced tough questions from U.S. senators Friday about why the bank played down risks and hid losses from regulators when it was losing billions of ...
Lawsuit Tests Bloggers’ Freedom Of Speech Rights
A colleague of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is asking a federal court of appeals to throw out a defamation case brought against him by former government employee Shirley Sherrod, ...
Univ. of Tenn. Proposes Fracking On Its Own Land To Fund Research
The University of Tennessee wants to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas on a state-owned tract of rolling woodland and use the revenue to fund research into the environmental impact of ...BP Sues To Block Gulf Spill Settlement Payouts, Alleges Administrator ‘Rewriting’ Deal
On Friday, BP sued to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The ...