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After being replaced by Honolulu for a year, Los Angeles took back the title of most congested metro area.
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LONDON, May 17- Budgets are made to be broken- especially when they are written by politicians. The shares of petroleum and mining companies listed on New York, London and other stock exchanges value them as if all these resources will be extracted and burned.
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HONOLULU-- The latest version of the U.S. Senate immigration reform bill restores Medicaid eligibility to migrants from three Pacific island nations in Micronesia. In exchange, the U.S. military controls extensive strategic land and water in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and China.
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HONOLULU-- Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced a pilot project Thursday to address homelessness by providing housing for people within their own neighborhoods. Other states that have invested in the strategy include Oregon and Kansas.
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According to filings late Wednesday in Manhattan bankruptcy court, MSR Hotels& Resorts Inc. sought Chapter 11 protection from creditors to sell its remaining assets and wind down.
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HONOLULU-- Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. said Wednesday its first-quarter net income dropped 12.1 percent to $33.7 million as its utilities invested more than $60 million in local infrastructure. Hawaiian Electric CEO Constance Lau said the results are in line with expectations and show significant progress to start 2013..
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But advocacy groups like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, along with more critical legislators, say a lot more needs to be done to make Hawaii's legislative process clearer and more accessible to the public.
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SALEM, Ore.-- The Oregon House narrowly passed a bill on Tuesday requiring overtime pay, meal breaks and other labor protections for housekeepers, nannies and in-home cooks. Sara Gelser, D- Corvallis, the bill's primary sponsor. Bill Kennemer, R- Oregon City, who voted against the bill.
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After being replaced by Honolulu for a year, Los Angeles took back the title of most congested metro area.
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The federal government's recent position that states are free to offer Internet gambling may lead states to turn to the Web as a new source of tax revenue.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON, May 2- North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on Thursday for what it said were crimes against the state, prompting the United States to call for his immediate release to keep him from becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON, May 2- North Korea sentenced an American citizen to 15 years of hard labor on Thursday for crimes against the state, prompting a U.S. call for his amnesty in hopes of avoiding him becoming a bargaining chip between the two countries.
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NEW YORK, May 2- Nearly three-quarters of Americans are planning to take a summer break and many will be heading to the beach, which is the most popular vacation getaway, according to a report released on Thursday by online travel company Orbitz.
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The law generally requires that the maritime transport of cargo between points in the United States be carried by U.S.-flagged vessels that are at least 75 percent owned and crewed by U.S. citizens, with U.S. officers and built in U.S. shipyards.
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A group of 10 lawyers and academics with experience in prior liability cases met in Indianapolis in mid-April to discuss whether a lawsuit claiming online gaming further promotes gambling addiction has a shot at winning.
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NEW YORK, April 30- Gross natural gas production in the lower 48 U.S. states in February climbed 1.3 percent from upwardly revised January output, the first monthly gain in three months, data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed on Tuesday. Lower 48 refers to gas production in the United States excluding Alaska and Hawaii.
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The company decided to sell the plants to reduce its exposure to merchant pricing and recognized a charge of roughly $41 million, NextEra said in its first quarter earnings release. Last month, NextEra sold 351 MW of hydropower assets in Maine and New Hampshire to a unit of Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP.
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The company decided to sell the plants to reduce its exposure to merchant pricing and recognized a charge of roughly $41 million, NextEra said in its first quarter earnings release. Last month, NextEra sold 351 MW of hydropower assets in Maine and New Hampshire to a unit of Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners LP.
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President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite.
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LONDON, April 26- Solar power, fast catching up with global wind capacity, presents its own problems for grid operators balancing increasingly variable supply from renewables with the demand fluctuations they were designed to handle.
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LONDON, April 26- Solar power, fast catching up with global wind capacity, presents its own problems for grid operators balancing increasingly variable supply from renewables with the demand fluctuations they were designed to handle.
