John Kennedy News
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission lacks authority over futures contracts, a U.S. appeals court ruled, handing a victory to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and an ex-Amaranth Advisors LLC trader fined $30 million by FERC.
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Lamprell Plc, an oil-rig manufacturer, was fined 2.4 million pounds ($3.6 million) for not telling the market quickly enough about its faltering finances in early 2012.
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Scottish Investment Trust Plc, an Edinburgh-based fund that has endured at least six stock market collapses since it started in 1887, is keeping more than 150 million pounds ($236 million) in cash in anticipation that prices will sink over the next year.
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Emergency work to deepen the Mississippi River shipping channel will avert a shutdown of barge traffic this month, lawmakers said as operators began increasing their cargo loads on the nation’s busiest waterway.
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Tom Vilsack is staying on as agriculture secretary during President Barack Obama’s second term, when he’ll be dealing with the effects of the worst drought since the 1930s and a Congress that hasn’t been able to pass a new five-year farm bill.
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Tom Vilsack is staying on as agriculture secretary during President Barack Obama’s second term, when he’ll be dealing with the effects of the worst drought since the 1930s and a Congress that hasn’t been able to pass a new five-year farm bill.
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Louisiana Treasurer John Kennedy said “chuckleheads” on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caused the explosion and oil spill, and said the isolated incident shouldn’t delay resuming Gulf of Mexico exploration.
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Presidential debates have produced some of the most memorable moments of modern campaigns: A tanned and relaxed John Kennedy meeting a sweaty and pasty Richard Nixon in 1960. Gerald Ford denying Soviet domination of Eastern Europe in 1976. Al Gore sighing and rolling his eyes in 2000.
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Barge operators on the Mississippi River say the worst drought in 80 years may put at risk gains from emergency dredging and rock removal aimed at keeping the nation’s busiest waterway open at least for this month.
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In a famous speech 52 years ago, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy said he believed that “the separation of church and state is absolute,” and promised that as a Roman Catholic, he would not take orders from the pope.
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