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A popular century-old tourist train that stopped chugging up to Wakefield, Que., last spring will get funding from the province to help get it running again.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve announced a new facility Tuesday to shore up money market mutual funds by funding commercial paper and certificate of deposit purchases from the funds. The announcement is the latest in a series of efforts by the Federal Reserve to provide liquidity to frozen credit markets as investors await the implementation of the $700 billion financial rescue package.
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The Tornado completed its first trial run on national track without a hitch.
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Mayors of three cities hit hardest by the economic crisis - Philadelphia, Atlanta and Phoenix - asked the federal government Friday for a piece of the $700 billion bailout package, saying they need help just like financial institutions....
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As The Washington Post reported this week, President-elect Barack Obama wrote American Federation of Government Employees in October promising that he would do everything in his power to rebuild the federal service. He also promised to protect collective bargaining rights and to restore funding c...
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A group of Ontario mayors as well as the Canadian Automobile Dealers Association added their names to a growing list of those pressuring Ottawa to move quickly to help the auto industry or risk a nationwide crisis.
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Finance Minister Jim Flaherty will slash almost $30 million a year in public funding for federal parties, in a move that would save taxpayers' money but deal a major financial blow to opposition parties, CTV News has learned.
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Despite a high turnout by Yukoners at advance polls, voters in the Kluane region of the Yukon seem to be showing little interest in the Oct. 14 federal election.
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The Fed lowers its benchmark federal funds rate to 1.5%. Other central banks also cut rates. Emergency interest rate cuts Wednesday by the Federal Reserve and five other central banks left in doubt whether government efforts to cure the financial crisis would show results fast enough to avert fresh panic and serious economic damage.
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Exclusion could deal a blow to California as it prepares to offer $4 billion in IOUs. A new federal program designed to ease credit by purchasing short-term business debt probably won't be available to California and other beleaguered state and local governments, Treasurer Bill Lockyer said Wednesday.
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A federal jurist wants to know Oct. 27 how state officials will transfer $250 million to the overseer of healthcare in state prisons. A federal judge Wednesday gave state officials nearly three weeks to explain how they will transfer $250 million to the overseer of medical care in state prisons.
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Councils in England and Wales are worried about whether they will recover large sums of money invested in Icelandic banks which have collapsed.
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States are struggling to pay for day-to-day operations with the frozen credit markets.
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The central bank grants the insurance giant a loan of up to $37.8 billion on top of the huge one made to the company last month. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday agreed to provide insurance giant American International Group Inc. with a loan of up to $37.8 billion on top of one made to the troubled company last month.
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Posted by Susan Kuczka at 7:50 p.m. Republican congressional candidate Steve Greenberg criticized President Bush and the previous GOP-controlled Congress on government spending Wednesday in trying to portray himself as an outsider challenging two-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean of...
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Immunization could lower rates of cervical cancer, according to experts, but many parents remain skeptical.
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RICHMOND, Oct. 9 -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced today he is laying off nearly 600 state workers, closing some correctional facilities and cutting funding for higher education by about 6 percent to help close a budget shortfall.
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Funding for deprived areas has not been scrapped, the social developent minister says.
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£46m in government funds can now be allocated, despite the deadlock at the executive, the finance minister says.
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A man was hit by a high-speed train as he walked his dog over a crossing point, an inquest hears.
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National AIDS organizations called Thursday on the next federal government to restore supports for people living with the disease, saying the incumbent Conservatives cut funding and shifted money toward research at the expense of social programs.
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A coalition of AIDS advocacy groups are calling on Canada's next federal government to restore funding they say the Conservatives diverted from support programs for people living with AIDS and HIV.
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A Bethesda teenager now faces federal charges in connection with what authorities say were his efforts to build pipe bombs using materials stored in his bedroom and to make fake federal IDs.
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A train windscreen was smashed as it approached a platform in Dundee, police say.
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The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed), a not-for-profit organization committed to advancing innovations in livestock health as a means of reducing poverty, announced today that it has received funding to carry out its mission of "protecting livestock, saving
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Jose Sandoval is self funding his bid for Mayor of PassaicIn his filing this week with the state Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC), Passaic real estate developer Jose Sandoval showed the richest mayoral campaign, although he slightly trails city supervisor/School Board President Vincent Capuana in cash on-hand. Sandoval lent his campaign $47,830, which is entirely how he’s funded his run. He reported a closing balance of $1,007.85. Capuana has raised $10,633, and reported a closing balance of $2,116.58. City Councilman/landlord Joe Garcia reported $18,800 raised, which includes a self-loan to his campaign in the amount of $7,500. He closed this period with $539.45 in the bank.
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Military leaders see Kabul's influence as weak amid growing violence and consider working with warlords. Confronting the prospect of failure after seven years in Afghanistan, the U.S. military is crafting a new strategy that is likely to expand the power and reach of that country's tribal militias while relying less on the increasingly troubled central government.
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SEATTLE (AP) -- A woman who left her baby at church in Federal Way has been charged with abandonment, but King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg is not asking that she be sent to jail....
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Council leaders are to seek fresh discussions over the financial settlement with the Scottish Government amid fears over funding policies for free school meals and smaller class sizes.
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Federal antitrust regulators on Friday cleared Wells Fargo's $11.7 billion acquisition of Wachovia Corp., capping a weeklong battle for the Charlotte, N.C.-based bank.
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If we’re heading for lean times, the Fitbit Tracker, a product aimed at making America healthier, may be having a well-timed launch. San Francisco-based Fitbit, the company, announced its first funding round today, a month after it first demonstrated the Tracker at the Techcrunch50 conference here. The small wireless device clips to clothing to track a person’s [...]
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Matthew Shepard's mother still mourns lost opportunities to battle hate crimes and promote a greater tolerance of gays in the 10 years since her 21-year-old son was beaten, tied to a wooden fence and left for dead in a frigid Wyoming pasture.
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Worried by the condition of federal roads in the state which it described as being in "total mess", Abia State Government said it has awarded contract worth N5.3 billion to reconstruct two major federal roads in Aba, the commercial capital.
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HEALTH Minister Mary Harney yesterday struck down any hopes of funding increases in next week's budget.
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India's PM launches Kashmir's first train service amid heavy security and after protests that left two people dead.
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Sir Clive Woodward's future as British Olympic Association's head of performance is hanging in balance.
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An artwork depicting a person falling to their death in front of a train will not be displayed at London's St Pancras Station.
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He may be the king of the silver screen, but it seems not even Steven Spielberg can thaw the freeze in credit markets
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DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What's good for General Motors Corp is good for the country.
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