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Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama today will propose upgrading infrastructure, promoting home-energy efficiency and helping small businesses as ways to spur job growth, an administration official said. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will today propose upgrading infrastructure, promoting home-energy efficiency and helping small businesses as ways to spur job growth, an administration official said. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under pressure from the U.S. to exclude corrupt ministers from his government, delayed announcing a new cabinet as Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived to hold security talks. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s envoy to North Korea won’t offer any incentives to entice the regime to return to disarmament talks seven months after the country tested a second nuclear device, a U.S. official said. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A bill offering gay and lesbian couples in New Jersey the same rights to marry as a man and woman was approved by a legislative committee last night and sent to the full Senate. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The “fair and reasonable” price financial advisers recommended to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago for the biggest borrowing in its history cost taxpayers $8 million in unnecessary interest and resulted in a bonanza for bankers, according to documents initially withheld from the public. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Democrats, struggling to find compromises in U.S. health-care legislation, are considering dropping plans to create a new government insurance program in favor of alternatives such as expanding the Medicare program. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will today outline ideas to spur job growth as his aides warned that there is no “silver bullet” to bring back the more than 7.2 million jobs that have been lost since the start of the recession. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors charged a Chicago man with helping plan last year’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai by carrying out surveillance of potential targets in India’s financial hub. Full Story »

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he is willing to serve as a diplomatic channel to the Iranian leadership after President Barack Obama pressed him yesterday for more support to curb Iran’s nuclear program. Full Story »