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Poll: Hispanic Support for Obama Surges
Americans by a wide margin favor Obama's new policy halting deportations of many young illegal immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, a new poll shows.
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Illinois Pension Fund May Cut Return Target
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Google unveiled a new tablet computer Wednesday called the Nexus 7 that rivals Amazon.com's popular Kindle Fire in both size and price.

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Barclays Settles Interest-Rates Probe
Barclays said it will pay $453.6 million to settle a long-running probe by U.S. and U.K. regulators into allegations that traders manipulated interbank lending rates.
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Glencore, Xstrata Revise Some Deal Terms
Xstrata and Glencore agreed to revise a key element of their landmark merger, shifting the focus now to whether Glencore is willing to sweeten the price to quell a shareholder rebellion over terms of the deal.
Facebook Falls as Analysts Weigh In
Wall Street gave Facebook a lukewarm reception with some analysts raving about the stock's prospects in new reports but several others offering less-enthusiastic assessments.
Blue Chips Post Two-fer
Investors pushed stocks to a second consecutive day of gains as a rise in oil prices and positive readings on the U.S. housing sector lifted sentiment ahead of a two-day European summit meeting.
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FDA Approves Weight-Loss Drug Belviq
The FDA approved weight-loss drug Belviq made by Arena Pharmaceuticals, the first obesity medicine to be approved in more than a decade.
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Minute-by-minute analysis of this Euro 2012 meeting between Portugal and Spain with a spot in the tournament's final on the line. The match is a scoreless tie in the second half.
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Faceoff Over High-Frequency Trading
Few recent developments in financial markets have inspired as much debate as the use of supercomputers by sophisticated trading outfits to jump rapidly in and out of markets. Larry Tabb and Mark Cuban take sides.

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Federal authorities are investigating suspected stowaways inside a shipping container on a freighter docked at Port Newark .
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Fires Consume More of Colorado, Nearby States
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Italy Approves Labor Law Overhaul
Italy's Parliament late Wednesday approved a landmark reform of the country's labor law, boosting Prime Minister Mario Monti's position ahead of a critical summit of European leaders in Brussels.
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Firms Cringe at Revealing CEO-Worker Pay Gap
A new rule could force companies to disclose the gap between what they pay their CEO and their median pay for employees.

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Not All Calories Are Equal, Study Shows
A diet based on healthy carbohydrates offers the best chance of keeping weight off without bringing unwanted side effects, a new study shows.
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J.P. Morgan Boosts Own Fund
After a planned J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. real-estate fund got the cold shoulder from potential investors, it turned to a friendlier source: the bank itself.
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Lennar Second-Quarter Profit Soars
Lennar reported a sharply higher quarterly profit aided by a tax-related gain and stronger home-building revenue and said the U.S. housing market continues to recover slowly.
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Zynga announced plans to offer a central hub to connect players of multiple games who use various devices.
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Stormy Forecast Juices OJ Futures
Florida's orange groves survived a lashing from Tropical Storm Debby this week. But some commodities investors are betting that Debby is just a warm up to what is expected to be a busy hurricane season.
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Will Student Loan Reprieve Fall Short?
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Stockton Passes Bankruptcy Budget
The city of Stockton, Calif., late Tuesday voted to adopt a new budget under which it can operate if it is under bankruptcy protection, a move widely considered the last step before the city formally files for Chapter 9 protection.
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China Province Backtracks on Housing
China's central Henan province appears to have beaten a hasty retreat on a proposal to ease housing-market curbs, illustrating continued tensions between Beijing and local governments over property policies.
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Vietnam Oil Firm Protests Chinese Plans
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To Clorox CEO, U.S. Is Bright Spot for Growth
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Health Industry Deals Are Going Strong
Despite uncertainty tied to the Supreme Court's coming health-care decision, the industry is moving forward with acquisitions, with several deals unveiled recently, and others actively in the works.
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A House to Look Smart In
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Forget the shouting about 'open' or 'closed' systems. The magic is in the dynamics of platform competition.
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Stuyvesant Deals With Its Suspects
The New York City Department of Education is investigating whether the administration of Stuyvesant High School properly responded to an alleged cheating incident last week at the highly selective school.
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In today's photos, Uncle Sam asks an impertinent question in Florida, a long-jumper shows off his stuff in Finland, a mass grave is uncovered in East Timor, and more.
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Fires Rage in Colorado
Amid high temperatures and low humidity, Colorado is battling several wild fires that are forcing evacuations and engulfing houses.
Portland Policy Encourages Composting
Last fall, Portland, Ore., decreased trash pickups and increased pickup of compostable waste.
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Moving Day in Ulpana Hill
Israel began moving settlers out of the Ulpana Hill neighborhood of the Beit El settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday, in compliance with a court order.

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