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LONDON- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks on monetary policy and the global economy before the "What Should Economist and Policymakers Learn from the Financial Crisis?" STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before a dinner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Markets Conference, 1915 EDT/ 2315 GMT.
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BOISE, Idaho-- The newest warden was sworn in Friday to oversee South Carolina's Lee Correctional Institution, a prison described by Gov. A former Colorado inmate killed in a shootout Thursday with Texas authorities is a suspect in the death of Tom Clements, the Colorado corrections director shot at his front door.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- As airport officials tried to figure out how a 300- pound arrival-departure panel fell off the wall and onto a family, the mother of a boy who was killed by the sign lay in a hospital with her own injuries, still unaware of what happened.
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*Passage of Senate plan shifts fiscal debate from deadlines. WASHINGTON, March 23- The U.S. Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington's fiscal wars until an anticipated summer showdown over raising the debt ceiling.
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The Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in debt. The NYT reports.
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Luke Bresette, 10, of Overland Park, Kansas, was pronounced dead by the Jefferson County Coroner's office, following the incident at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. His mother, identified as Heather Bresette, and the three brothers, were taken to the UAB Hospital and Children's Hospital in Birmingham for treatment.
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*FAA spares 40 towers on original list of proposed closures. The FAA must absorb $637 million in cuts by Sept. 30. The FAA said another 40 towers previously slated for closure will remain open, either because them shutting them would not be in the national interest or because money was found in a federal cost-sharing program to keep them open.
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March 22- Walter Energy Inc, facing an activist investor that wants to replace half its board, said on Friday it would idle a high-cost metallurgical coal mine in Western Canada within the next few weeks, sending its shares nearly 4 percent higher.
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LONDON- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks on monetary policy and the global economy before the "What Should Economist and Policymakers Learn from the Financial Crisis?" STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before a dinner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Markets Conference, 1915 EDT/ 2315 GMT.
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WASHINGTON, March 21- Lingering snow and colder-than-normal temperatures in much of the United States will give way to warmer-than-average weather and continued drought in areas that need moisture most, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday its spring outlook.
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*USDA food agency would get $55 mln to keep inspectors at work. WASHINGTON, March 21- Congress approved $55 million on Thursday to prevent the furlough of all U.S. meat inspectors this summer, a step that could have driven up meat prices and created spot shortages in grocery stores and restaurants.
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March 21- U.S. Labor Department report of initial state jobless benefit claims, seasonally adjusted. Initial Claims: March 9 from 332,000; Feb 9 from 343,000. Four-Week Average: March 9 from 346,750; March 2 from 349,750; Feb. 23 from 356,000.
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WASHINGTON, March 20- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers began a new attempt on Wednesday to pass legislation that puts pressure on China to change its currency practices, reviving an effort that previously failed to make it to the finish line.
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The bill is similar to legislation that passed the House of Representatives in 2010 and the Senate in 2011, but which died in Congress before it could reach President Barack Obama's desk to sign into law. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was wrapping up a two-day visit to China, where he pressed Beijing to allow the yuan to rise further against the dollar.
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WASHINGTON- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke holds media briefing live via Web site following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy, 1430 EDT/ 1830 GMT. LONDON- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before the "What Should Economist and Policymakers Learn from the Financial Crisis?"
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MIAMI, March 19- Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled 10 more cruises aboard its ship Triumph, which was undergoing repairs after an engine fire left it stranded in the Gulf of Mexico last month, the company said on Tuesday.
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MIAMI, March 19- Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled 10 more cruises aboard its ship Triumph, which was undergoing repairs after an engine fire left it stranded in the Gulf of Mexico last month, the company said on Tuesday.
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BOSTON/ CONWAY, Mass., March 19- Snow, sleet and rain hit the northeastern United States on Tuesday, the last full day of winter, slowing traffic, closing schools and annoying people tired of the wet and cold weather.
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WASHINGTON- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke holds media briefing live via Web site following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on interest rate policy, 1430 EDT/ 1830 GMT. LONDON- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks before the "What Should Economist and Policymakers Learn from the Financial Crisis?"
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March 19- About 130,000 homes and businesses were still without power early Tuesday in Alabama and Georgia following severe thunderstorms on Monday. Alabama Power, a unit of Southern Co, said on Tuesday that it had about 98,200 customers still without power, down from more than 222,000 overnight.