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| | Six Months After Quake, Progress in Haiti is Slow |
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Six months ago, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing 300,000 people and displacing millions more from their homes. A team of reporters from the NewsHour has been on the ground in Haiti looking at what has improved and what still needs to be done to ease the country’s suffering.
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| | Financial Reform Law Aims to Prevent Next Crash |
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Congress has passed a bill to overhaul the rules that control banks and financial regulations, two years after the meltdown of the country's financial system sparked the ongoing recession.
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| | Arts / Media |
| | “To Kill a Mockingbird” Turns 50 |
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Hailed as one of the most important books of the 20th century, "To Kill a Mockingbird" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961and has sold more than 30 million copies.
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| | High Court Rules Against City Gun Ban |
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A divided Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution's Second Amendment Right "to keep and bear arms" extends to state and local governments, a victory for guns rights advocates.
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