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** FILE ** This Sunday July 10, 2011, file photo shows chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, right, and his son James Murdoch, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, in central London. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)
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Rep. Frank Lucas, Oklahoma Republican, is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. (Associated Press)
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Microsoft is paying $300 million for a minority stake in the digital reader business of Barnes & Noble, which sells the Nook e-book. The pairing could boost Barnes & Noble in its quest to take on Amazon's Kindle. (Barnes & Noble via Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this April 17, 2012, photo, One World Trade Center, now up to 100 floors, rises above the Manhattan skyline in New York. On Monday, April 30, One World Trade Center — being built to replace the twin towers destroyed on 9/11 — gets steel columns to make its unfinished framework a little higher than the Empire State Building's observation deck, to become the tallest building in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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**FILE** Shukri Ghanem, former Libyan oil chief, talks June 1, 2011, with reporters in Rome. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Specialists Peter Giacchi (left) and John Parisi confer on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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A woman leaves a banner after an April 29, 2012, demonstration against education and health care spending cuts in Madrid. (Associated Press)
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Honduran women wait for breakfast after spending the night at the migrant shelter in Tultitlan, Mexico, before resuming their journey by freight train to the U.S.
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Kim Kardashian was among the guests providing celebrity glitter at the 2012 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. (Associated Press)
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Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell (front), the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, arrives at a hotel in Beijing early on Sunday, April 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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In an April 23, 2012 photo Robert Arciero, right, works with fellow traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street headed for a mixed opening Friday April 27, 2012, with Dow Jones industrial futures slipping marginally while the S&P 500 futures fell 0.1 percent (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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In this April 24, 2012, file photo, women and girls carry purchases on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. The Commerce Department said Friday, April 27, 2012, that the economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the January-March quarter, compared with a 3 percent gain in the final quarter of 2011. Consumers spent at the fastest pace in more than a year. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)