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Islamists that dominate Egypt’s new parliament looked Saturday to solidify their power over the country’s political direction as lawmakers chose a 100-member panel to draw up the country’s new constitution.
The selection process has sparked a fierce debate in Egypt. With so much at stake, a bloc of secular and liberal lawmakers boycotted Saturday’s voting by […]
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O’Fallon, Mo. • This time last year, O’Fallon Brewery was fading out of sight.
After growing for most of a decade, St. Louis’ second-largest craft brewer hit a wall. Its co-founders ran out of cash. Beer-making ground to a halt. Six-packs on store shelves dwindled.
But now O’Fallon is on pace to sell more in 2012 than […]
Concerns that China will enter a so- called hard landing are
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Alabama’s Jefferson County can go ahead with its $4.23 billion bankruptcy case, the biggest ever by an American municipality, a federal judge ruled.
Overcoming arguments by creditors that the county was ineligible for bankruptcy because it had the wrong type of debt, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett issued a ruling late Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama, […]
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said the 30 percent drop in U.S. housing prices since 2006 may prompt a generational shift to apartment rentals.
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A semiofficial Iranian news agency quotes a senior military commander as saying that Tehran will strike pre-emptively at its enemies, if it feels it is in danger.
The comments by deputy head of Iran’s armed forces Gen. Mohammed Hejazi were carried by Fars agency on Tuesday.
“We do not wait for enemies to take action against us,” […]
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President Barack Obama called for $1.4 trillion in fresh revenue from Americans at the top of the income scale, proposing higher taxes on wages and investments and limiting breaks for retirement savings and health insurance.
The tax proposals in the administration