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Argentina announces new debt swap outside US law 27 Aug 2013 | 06:36 am
AP Argentina's president says she's reopening the country's debt swap, offering new bonds to be paid in dollars in Buenos Aires to anyone still holding defaulted debt a decade after the country's worl...
Bill Ackman bails out of JC Penney 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
AP J.C. Penney's largest investor and former board member is bailing out.
Feds to restore cuts in mineral payments to states 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
AP The federal government says it will give an estimated 110 million in mineral leasing and royalty payments next fiscal year to states that saw the money withheld under 2013 budget cuts.
La. community is 'a ghost town' a year after Isaac 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
AP Isaac barely had hurricane-strength winds when it blew ashore southwest of New Orleans a year ago, but its effects are still apparent in coastal areas where it flooded thousands of homes.
NY judge rules JPMorgan owes billionaire 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
AP A New York City judge says J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. owes billionaire Leonid Blavatnik more than 42.5 million in connection to an investment account.
Figures on government spending and debt 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
AP Figures on government spending and debt last six digits are eliminated. The government's fiscal year runs Oct. 1 through Sept. 30.
Retired CBS newsman Bruce Dunning dies at 73 27 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
AP CBS News says longtime foreign correspondent Bruce Dunning has died.
Judge sends Flora's constitutional suit back to county court 27 Aug 2013 | 05:29 am
A federal judge on Monday granted former Luzerne County Chief Public Defender Al Flora's request to have his constitutional lawsuit against the county remanded back to county court.
Kerry: Chemical arms use in Syria an 'obscenity' 27 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
AP Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday outlined the clearest justification yet for U.S. military action in Syria, saying there was quotundeniablequot evidence of a large-scale chemical weapons att...
Conservative group presses McConnell on health law 27 Aug 2013 | 04:37 am
AP A conservative group is launching a radio ad challenging Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to oppose any money for President Barack Obama's health care law even if it means triggering a gove...
