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3 Home Improvements You Can Make With $5,000

Filed under: Design, How To Courtesy of White Buffalo Styling Co.via Zillow By Lindsay Jackman For a renovation budget of $5,000, you can add some serious functional upgrades to your home. Kitchens and bathrooms are smart places to focus your dollars. They are hardworking rooms that you’ll enjoy using, but also among the first rooms a future buyer will want to see. Another practical way to increase the function of

U.S. government probes alleged UN bribery scheme: WSJ

(Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement authorities are investigating an alleged bribery scheme involving payments to officials at the United Nations to gain support for real estate developments in Macau, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The investigation, led by the office of the U.S. attorney in Manhattan and the FBI, centers on alleged bribery by Chinese businesspeople, the newspaper reported. The number of U.N. officials

U.S. court orders EPA to rewrite ship ballast water dumping rules

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court in New York ordered the government to rewrite its rules regulating the discharge of ballast water by ships, in a victory for environmental groups that said the rules were too lenient and threatened the nation’s waterways. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday said the Environmental Protection Agency acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it decided in 2013