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The Salt
4:25 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Eaters Worldwide Are Skeptical of Manufacturers' Health Claims

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A woman with her son checks labels on fruit drinks in a store in Manila, Philippines.
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By Nancy Shute

We members of the global food village seem to have something in common: We're pretty darned skeptical food manufacturers' health claims.

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Presidential Race
4:04 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Gingrich Campaign Rides A Financial Roller Coaster

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Newt Gingrich celebrated his win in the South Carolina primary with a fundraising blitz — a two-day push to raise as much money as possible. The campaign says it brought in $2 million. That money will come in handy in Florida. But the need for quick fundraising shows the precarious state of the Gingrich campaign's finances.

The Two-Way
4:00 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Live Blog: 'No Bailouts, No Handouts, No Copouts,' Obama Will Say

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President Obama delivers his annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.
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Originally published on Thu November 15, 2012 3:33 pm

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The Two-Way
3:04 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Apple Sold 37 Million iPhones Last Quarter, 7 Million More Than Expected

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Originally published on Tue January 24, 2012 3:22 pm

Apple's just-released financial results for the quarter ended Dec. 31 have some eye-popping numbers:

-- "Record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion," double the $6 billion of the same quarter a year earlier.

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Around the Nation
2:25 pm
Tue January 24, 2012

Texas Town Embraces New Refugee Residents

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Ker Paw Nah, 27, is a supervisor at Pilgrim's Pride. He met his wife, Paw Mu Nar in a refugee camp. Their son, Hai Ler Nah, just turned one.
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Nacogdoches – or Nac, as they say here – is home to about 33,000 people. Residents have helped welcome hundreds of refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma.
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Originally published on Tue January 24, 2012 7:06 pm

Though some states have cracked down hard on illegal immigration, one small Texas town has rolled out the welcome mat for hundreds of foreigners and wouldn't mind seeing more move in.

It started about a year ago when a chicken processing plant in Nacogdoches, Texas, announced it would hire a couple hundred new workers, all of them refugees from Myanmar, also known as Burma.

"The initial reaction, it wasn't as good as it should have been," says Nacogdoches Mayor Roger Van Horn.

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