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US says missing contractor in Iraq returns
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. says an Iraqi-American contractor said to have been kidnapped in Baghdad in January by Shiite militiamen is back in American hands....
Obama announces 15 recess appointments, scolds GOP
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fed up with waiting, President Barack Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment....
Palin to tea party rally: Don't sit down, shut up
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SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. (AP) -- Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists gathered in the Nevada desert that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown....US troop deaths double in Afghanistan
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KABUL (AP) -- The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum....
Shelter plan emerging ahead of Haiti donor meeting
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Aid officials say they have finally figured out where to put hundreds of thousands of Haitians who lost their homes in a cataclysmic earthquake: right back where they came from....