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however, lawmakers and the White House will agree to fund the government and raise the debt limit for only a few months. They also will call for yet another bipartisan effort to address the federal debt's major causes, including restricted revenue growth and entitlement benefits that rise automatically.
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Police arrest ground handling employee in dry ice explosions at Los Angeles airport
• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A baggage handler has been arrested following a police investigation into two dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport.
• Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair, was booked Tuesday for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft. He is being held on $1 million bail.
• Police had stepped up patrols and increased its checks on employees after the blasts took place Sunday night and then again Monday night.
• Bennett took the dry ice from a plane and placed it in an employee restroom Sunday night and another device that was found on a tarmac outside the international terminal, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation who wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
• Police had previously said they didn't believe the explosions were an act of terror because of the locations of the devices and because people weren't targeted.
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Philippine quake's heavy damage to historic churches deals big blow as death toll rises to 144
• LOON, Philippines (AP) -- The earthquake that struck the central Philippines and killed at least 144 people also dealt a serious blow to the region's historical and religious legacy by heavily damaging a dozen or more churches, some of them hundreds of years old.
• As rescuers reached some of the hardest hit areas on Wednesday and the death toll from the quake a day earlier continued to rise, images of the wrecked religious buildings resonated across a nation where 80 percent of the population is Catholic.
• The bell tower toppled from Cebu city's 16th-century Basilica of the Holy Child -- a remnant of the Spanish colonial era and the country's oldest church building -- becoming a pile of rubble in the courtyard by the front gate.
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