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Health bill gains ground with weekend vote likely (AP)

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)

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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US clinic sparks debate with UK human egg raffle
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Iraqi PM fights for survival as votes are counted (AP)

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)

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)

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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Fear grips Mexican border families amid violence
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Why One Undocumented Student Is Walking the Trail of Dreams (OneWorld.net)

OneWorld.net – SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 17 (New America Media) – Four students who were brought to the United States by their families when they were young and are still undocumented are walking 1,500 miles from their homes in Miami, Fla. to Washington, D.C., to ask for immigration reform.

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Missile strike kills militant with role in CIA bombing (McClatchy Newspapers)

McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — An al Qaida militant suspected of playing a key role in a suicide bombing at a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan died last week in Pakistan, apparently in a retaliatory missile strike by a CIA drone, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Wednesday.

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California police report supports Prius driver (Reuters)

Reuters – A California Highway Patrol report released on Wednesday in a sensational “runaway” Toyota Prius incident appears to support the version of events given by the driver, which the automaker has called into question.

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California police report supports Prius driver
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