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Partial results from Iraqi vote show tight contest (AP)

An electoral worker sorts through ballots cast in the national election in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Iraqi and UN officials say the first results from this week's parliamentary elections are likely to be released on Thursday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP – Partial preliminary results from four of 18 provinces in Iraq show the prime minister’s bloc and a secular challenger winning two provinces each.


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Airlines fight back, threaten to cancel tons of flights amid new rule protecting fliers from delays

Airlines are doing their best to keep a new rule protecting passengers from extensive delays from taking flight.

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Freed missionary arrives in US from Haiti jail (AP)

Charisa Coulter, second from right, of Meridian, Idaho, one of two US Baptist missionaries held on kidnapping charges in Haiti, arrives to the airport, accompanied by US embassy staff, after her release from jail in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 8, 2010.  Coulter was set free more than a month after she and nine other Americans were arrested for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti without proper documents after the Jan. 12 earthquake.  Laura Silsby, the leader of the Idaho-based missionaries, remains detained. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP – One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti has arrived in the U.S. after being released after more than a month in custody.


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Paramedics hail ‘hero’ boy from Arizona bus crash (AP)

Oscar Rodriguez, 11, talks to Gila River paramedics in his room at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Oscar, 11-years-old, was a passenger on the bus that overturned and was injured in the accident on Interstate 10 Friday. Despite his injuries, the boy helped paramedics on the scene by translating for patients who didn't speak English. The paramedics were so appreciative of Oscar's efforts that they brought him a fireman's helmet, a jersey and a certificate recognizing his work.  (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Jack Kurtz) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MESA TRIBUNE OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP – A bilingual 4th grader hurt in an Arizona bus accident that killed six people and injured more than a dozen others translated from an ambulance stretcher for busy rescue workers as they hurried to set up a triage center, authorities said Saturday.


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Boy, 6, gets suspended from school after making gun sign with fingers, pointing at classmates

It’s handgun control in the extreme. A Michigan kindergartener’s make-believe gun – which he created with just his fingers – got him suspended, the Grand Rapids Press reported.

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Doctors warn of health threat from Chile wreckage (AP)

People inspect their earthquake damaged homes in Caleta Tumbes, Chile, Friday, March 5, 2010.  The fishing village was damaged by waves following an  8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP – Huge piles of wreckage and tons of rotting fish and other debris blanketing the ground are turning the coastal towns shattered by Chile’s earthquake and tsunami into nests of infection, doctors warned.


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GOP taking cues from Tea Party? Secret memo depicts Obama as Joker, Dems as ‘Evil Empire’

The Republican Party’s battle plan for victory this fall may be steeped in the Tea Party movement?s aesthetics.

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