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Bill To Avert U.S. Government Shutdown Moving Slowly In Senate
The U.S. Senate on Monday inched closer to passage of a bill to fund federal agencies through Sept. 30 and avoid a government shutdown at the end of this month when existing money runs out. Up ...
Supreme Court Rejects Goldman Sachs Appeal Over Mortgage Securities
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. suffered a defeat on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a decision forcing it to defend against claims it misled investors about mortgage securities that lost value ...
On Energy Agenda, Obama Pushes Research Fund For No-Gas Autos
President Barack Obama tried to move past partisan fights over U.S. energy policy on Friday with a modest proposal to fund research into cars that run on anything but gasoline. Obama toured the ...
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, ...