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Democrats push toward Sunday vote on health care
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 AP - Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama's health care legislation in the House, the result of intense lobbying and politically targeted changes aimed at reassuring waverers and winning over critics.
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Upbeat Lloyds Bank gives world markets a boost
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 AP - British stocks led Friday's advance in global markets after the part-nationalized Lloyds Banking Group issued a buoyant trading update, but the euro continued to founder amid renewed fears about Greek debt crisis.
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IMF: Europe needs plans for bank collapse
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AP - The head of the International Monetary Fund says the European Union needs to come up with "a fire brigade" to deal with the collapse of banks that operate across several countries.
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Obama signs multibillion-dollar jobs bill
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 AFP - President Barack Obama offered hope Thursday that the faltering US economy will soon create more jobs, as he signed a multibillion-dollar employment package to aid the fragile recovery.
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Upbeat Lloyds Bank gives world markets a boost
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AP - British stocks led Friday's advance in global markets after the part-nationalized Lloyds Banking Group issued a buoyant trading update, but the euro continued to founder amid renewed fears about Greek debt crisis.
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London shares rise at open
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 AFP - Leading shares rose in opening deals on Friday, following strong overnight performances in Asia and mixed results on Wall Street.
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How the major stock indexes fared on Thursday
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AP - Major stock indexes ended mixed Thursday on more evidence that the economy is regaining strength at a slow pace. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for an eighth straight day, its longest unbroken climb since August. Reports indicated that inflation remains in check and manufacturing is growing. The government said, however, that first-time claims for unemployment benefits only inched lower.
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FTSE 100 shares in the red
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 AFP - FTSE 100 shares ended in the red at the close of trade on Thursday as investors took profits and digested economic data including a larger-than-expected eurozone trade deficit.
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Climate change cited as Mont. leases suspended (AP)
A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how oil field activities contribute to climate change.
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Ky. passes law to put flowers on mountaintop mines (AP)
Mountaintops defoliated by mining companies would be sown with native flowering plants under a new law in Kentucky. Gov. Steve Beshear signed a bill into law Thursday intended to restore pollen-producing vegetation that honeybees need to survive in the central Appalachians, where mining has obliterated entire ridge tops and the blooming trees and shrubs that once grew on them.
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