AP – A parish official says a Louisiana oil spill command center is shutting down over a dispute with BP over rent and other expenses
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Official: La. oil command center to shut over rent
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AP – The stock market ended its worst August since 2001 with meager gains Tuesday after minutes from the latest Federal Reserve meeting showed officials’ increasing concern about the economy.
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How the major stock indexes fared Tuesday
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AP – Inflation in the 16 countries that use the euro fell in August, official figures showed Tuesday, reinforcing market expectations that the European Central Bank will not be raising borrowing costs this year.
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Eurozone inflation eases in August to 1.6 percent
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AP – Inflation in the 16 countries that use the euro fell in August, official figures showed Tuesday, reinforcing market expectations that the European Central Bank will not be raising borrowing costs this year.
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Eurozone inflation eases in August to 1.6 percent
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AP – The Obama administration’s top housing official says several new programs are in the works to help try to revive the housing market.
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2 new programs planned to help homeowners
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In another blow to U.S. efforts to fight corruption in Afghanistan, one of the country’s most senior prosecutors says he was forced into early retirement by President Hamid Karzai. The prosecutor maintains that members of the Karzai government are blocking corruption investigations involving high-ranking officials. Host Liane Hansen talks to NPR’s Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Kabul.
AP – TOUGH JOB: Ben Bernanke is struggling to build consensus among Federal Reserve officials about what steps are needed — if any — to give the economy a boost.
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Summary Box: Bernanke seeks to build consensus
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British Prime Minister David Cameron is currently vacationing with his family in the seaside county of Cornwall in southwest England. The prime minister recently urged fellow U.K. citizens to take their summer holiday at home and re-discover the country’s seacoast resorts. And more of them are: British tourism offices say domestic tourism is up again this year after seeing an 18 percent boost last year. Officials now hope the “staycation” trend helps rejuvenate some of England’s economically downtrodden coastal towns. But as Eric Westervelt reports, many towns have yet to reap any reward.
The Henan Airlines plane with 91 passengers and crew members crashed in Heilongjiang province’s Yichun city, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The runway was shrouded in fog.
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