The White House is weighing a package of business tax breaks – potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars – to spur hiring, according to people with knowledge of the deliberations.
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Coastal residents hunkered down as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 -mph winds Thursday on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the first and perhaps most destructive stop on the storm’s projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.Today - National
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An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.Today - National
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