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Domestic News | June 12, 2013

This is News -- June 12, 2013

Domestic News

Immigration reform debate opens in Senate, Democrat calls for hearings on NSA, State Department acknowledges scandal but calls it

Secretary of State John Kerry (Associated Press/Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Senate debate begins on immigration reform, but real divisions threaten the bill. On the NSA controversy, a key Democrat calls for Senate hearings on the secret surveillance. The State Department acknowledges a sex-drugs-and-coverup controversy but insists allegations of high-level misconduct are "preposterous" and "inaccurate." Federal appeals ruling refusing a delay on over-the-counter access for morning-after pills may have led White House to reverse course. Markets: Wall Street looking to central bankers, not business fundamentals, for guidance.