Government And Institutions

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With stock market gains replacing steep losses in the accounting ledger, Mississippi's main public employee pension fund posted stronger results last year.

Tens of thousands of protesters have marched against a plan by the Hungarian government to tax Internet use from 2015.

Utility regulators approved 43 applications Tuesday from individuals and groups that want to have a say in South Dakota's decision on whether to re-approve part of the Keystone XL pipeline that would run through the state if it is ever built.

Operators of a North Carolina third-party payroll company have been indicted after federal prosecutors say they took more than $11 million from their clients and used it for themselves.

The European Union's head office said Tuesday it is giving the 2015 French and Italian budgets a provisional green light, saying last-minute commitments to keep deficits down kept them within limits.

An environmental group wants a federal court to review its claim that California's last operating nuclear power plant is violating federal law and should be ordered to shut down.

A South Carolina company that sells minibikes and go-carts has agreed to pay $4.3 million in a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission — the largest-ever civil penalty levied by the agency.

Most colleges in Boston have failed to pay the city the full amount agreed upon to help pay for municipal services, a review has found.

Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction with six-month bills rising to their highest level in more than three months.

A New York City councilman says he'll hold an oversight hearing this year to examine the care provided by a contracted company in city jails, where documents show timeliness and quality of care were issues in more than a dozen inmate deaths since 2009.

The housing market in Ohio is on the rebound after a steep drop in prices during the recession that took hold in 2008.

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A tax cut for small business-owners has not been claimed as frequently as expected.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York has more jobs than ever and that upstate New York is rebounding.

Groups are campaigning in Maui County over a Nov. 4 ballot measure that would prohibit the growing of genetically modified organisms until studies show they're safe.

South Korea's economic growth slowed to 3.2 percent in the third quarter, the lowest in five quarters, as weakness in exports and spending by companies offset the boost from government stimulus.

The Rwandan government, members of parliament and genocide survivors have expressed their anger at the BBC over a recent documentary that suggested the country's president may have had a hand shooting down of his predecessor's plane.

Ridesharing company Uber launched in Las Vegas, Reno and Carson City on Friday after months of rumors that included recruitment posts on Craigslist and cryptic front-page newspaper advertisements, but the company faces a battle with the state's highly regulated and influential taxi industry.

Regulators have closed a small lender in Illinois, bringing U.S. bank failures this year to 16 after 24 closures in all of 2013.