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Investors are lowering their earnings expectations and that's been helping to push stocks sharply lower today. Before the close, Dow was down 243 points at 13,103; NASDAQ was off 27 at 2,990; and SP 500 down 21 at 1,413; of course Apple cut some of i

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President Obama was on the US-Mexican border today in an effort to create public pressure on Congress to try again to pass an immigration overhaul bill. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. President Obama promised Hispanic voters in 2008 that he would pass a

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By Mil Arcega Washington 26 May 2008 An appeals court in the U.S. state of Texas has ruled that authorities had no right to remove children from a polygamist religious sect's compound. Officials raided the compound on April 3rd and removed more than

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