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Senate votes to change cocaine sentencing rules (AP)

March 18th, 2010

AP – Legislation approved by the Senate on Wednesday would significantly reduce the disparity in sentences handed out to those convicted of crack and powder cocaine.

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Obama picks up new support for health bill (Reuters)

March 18th, 2010 serah

Reuters – President Barack Obama picked up support for healthcare reform on Wednesday from a prominent liberal and a group of Catholic nuns, who broke with bishops on the issue of abortion and urged passage of the overhaul.

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Health bill gains ground with weekend vote likely (AP)

March 18th, 2010 serah

AP – President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care legislation won precious support from a longtime liberal holdout in the House on Wednesday and from Catholic nuns representing dozens of religious orders, gaining fresh traction in the run-up to a climactic weekend vote.

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US clinic sparks debate with UK human egg raffle (AP)

March 18th, 2010 serah

AP – An American infertility clinic seeking business in Britain prompted fierce criticism by offering free eggs from a U.S. woman to one participant in a promotional seminar in London on Wednesday.

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Iraqi PM fights for survival as votes are counted (AP)

March 18th, 2010 serah

AP – The man who has led Iraq for the past four years is battling for his political survival just as U.S. troops are getting ready to pack up and go home.

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Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan (AP)

March 18th, 2010 serah

AP – Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance.

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Fear grips Mexican border families amid violence (AP)

March 18th, 2010 serah

AP – Elodia Ortiz drops her children at school in the morning, picks them up in the afternoon and makes an occasional trip to the supermarket. Anything else, she says, is too dangerous.

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Senior official: Al-Qaida leader believed killed (AP)

March 18th, 2010

AP – An al-Qaida leader believed to have played a key role in the bombing of a CIA post in Afghanistan last December was apparently killed by an American missile strike last week, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.

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