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Taliban fight in Afghan town with fear campaign (AP)
March 18, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 2010The 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, 2010The 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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