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Taliban fight in Afghan town with fear campaign (AP)

March 18, 2010

TO GO WITH HEIDI VOGT STORY SLUGGED:  BC-AS--Afghanistan-Fear Campaign--  In this image taken on Tuesday, March 16, 2010,  in Marjah, Afghanistan, Afghans listen to a Marine officer while on patrol. Taliban insurgents are conducting a fear and intimidation campaign against residents of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, which international forces just wrested from insurgents. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - A month after losing control of their southern base in Marjah, the Taliban have begun to fight back, launching a campaign of assassination and intimidation to frighten people from supporting the U.S. and its Afghan allies.


More than 100 complaints lodged over fixed Toyotas (AP)

March 18, 2010

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, the Toyota logo is seen on a car at a dealership in Nashville, Tenn. An analysis by The Associated Press finds that the U.S. government has received more than 100 complaints from drivers who say their recalled Toyotas are still accelerating on their own even after receiving the automaker's fix. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)AP - Complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas repaired under recalls have nearly doubled in the past two weeks, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data.


Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism (AP)

March 18, 2010

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2010, file photo, Pakistani police officers with detained American Muslims leave a police station to send them into prison in Sargodha, Pakistan. A Pakistani court charged the five young Americans on Wednesday March 17, 2010, with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary, File)AP - A Pakistani court charged five young Americans on Wednesday with planning terrorist attacks in the South Asian country and conspiring to wage war against nations allied with Pakistan, their defense lawyer said.


The political firestorm over 'deem and pass': What it is and why it matters (The Newsroom)

March 18, 2010

Health care supporters yell at cars passing by during a tea party protest against the proposed health care plan outside the office of Rep. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., in Schaumburg, Ill. on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)The Newsroom - “Deem and pass”: It sounds either like a gentlemanly gambit on a State Dinner dance floor or the most polite entry in an NFL playbook.  But in the fierce endgame of Washington’s health care debate, the maneuver is provoking a partisan firestorm.


Pooch poser: Dogs originated from Middle East wolves (AFP)

March 18, 2010

A Siberian Husky. Husky, shar pei, terrier or mutt, today's dogs descended from wolves that probably lived in the Middle East, not Europe or Asia as many thought, according to a study published Wednesday in the British science journal Nature.(AFP/File/Joe Klamar)AFP - Husky, shar pei, terrier or mutt, today's dogs descended from wolves that probably lived in the Middle East, not Europe or Asia as many thought, according to a study published Wednesday in the British science journal Nature.


Iraq needs US help to beat huge refugee crisis: study (AFP)

March 18, 2010

Internally displaced Iraqi children sit by the edge of a tent in the shade at a settlement camp in Najaf, in 2008. Iraq faces a dire humanitarian crisis as huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle to survive in squalid camps and Washington has a AFP - The United States has a "special responsibility" to help Iraq address a dire humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle to survive, an aid group said Wednesday.


Recent cases show challenge of US terrorists (AP)

March 18, 2010

In this June 26, 1997 photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown a 1997 booking mug of Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described 'Jihad Jane' who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden, is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say. The new reality that there is a threat from violent Islamic extremism from within the U.S. It is difficult to say whether the uptick in cases is because law enforcement has gotten better at catching suspects or if there are simply more to catch. (AP Photo/Tom Green County Jail)AP - The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.


Dogs domesticated in Middle East, not Asia (Reuters)

March 18, 2010

A tame wolf is seen in the village of Nadbiarezha, some 250 km (156 miles) northwest of Minsk, in this September 23, 2009 file photo. A new study based on genetic comparisons between more than 900 dogs representing 85 breeds and over 200 wild gray wolves -- the closest living wild relative of domestic dogs -- likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko/Files  (BELARUS - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT SCI TECH)Reuters - From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research, a genetic study reported on Wednesday.


Hurt dog limps into New Mexico ER

March 18, 2010

The patient was only slightly injured when he limped into a hospital in the northwest New Mexico city of Farmington.

Social Security needs Uncle Sam's IOUs

March 18, 2010

The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in a small town: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

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