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The administration is under pressure from Mexico and top Republicans to back off of a threat to impose tariffs on that country if it does not make an effort to curb illegal immigration.

The home-improvement retailer Lowe's has reportedly agreed to buy Orchard Supply Hardware Stores. The sale price is expected to top $200 million. Orchard is a California-based hardware-and-garden chain. It was once owned by Sears, and is now about $230 million in debt.

Cumberland Farms put giant photo cutouts of David Hasselhoff in front of their stores across New England and Florida. The 60-year-old star of Baywatch and Knight Rider is shown smiling, wearing a tank top and promoting iced coffee. Of 570 photos, roughly 550 have been stolen.

While the financial world keeps grappling with losses, the industry's leaders have raked in annual pay raises averaging nearly 12 percent. The Financial Times found JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon was among the top earners, with a pay package of more than $23 million last year. That's an 11 percent increase over the previous year.

The top spot on the American Library Association's annual list of most challenged books goes to The Adventures of Captain Underpants — for the second year in a row.

Before the next drawing, on Saturday night, experts say the lottery could top $1 billion.

The top 10 candidates, as determined by Fox, took the stage together for the first time at 9 p.m. ET. The other seven debated earlier, at 5 p.m. ET.

A monkey took a fall right on top of a transformer at a power station. This tripped the transformer and caused a blackout. The monkey is fine, being cared for by the Kenya Wildlife Service.

The Global Language Monitor's Top Word of 2014 is not a word, it's an emoji of a heart. The company says the spread of pictures in place of words reflects a broader transformation of English.

A top Japanese diplomat says indirect negotiations to free a captive journalist from the militant Islamic State group have reached a "state of deadlock."