NewsTaco To Go: Books, Balding, Budget, The Border and PATRIOT Act

Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot in Mexico City; Special Agent Jaime J. Zapata was killed and the other is in a hospital recovering.

Borders book store has filed for bankruptcy and will likely close about 200 stores across the country.

The Senate voted to temporarily re-approve parts of the PATRIOT Act that allow the government to spy on people in the U.S. Both houses are a little iffy on this part of the law and so it may not, ultimately, be continued in the same form.

The U.S. budget war continues, with the Obama Administration proposing one, the Republicans rejecting it and offering another, repeat. Supposedly the Republicans will propose reforms to programs like MediCare.

A new study suggests that men who start balding early, in their 20s, may be twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as others.