Analysis: Iraqi PM takes risks by challenging vote (AP)

Sunday, March 28th, 2010 at 3:35 pm  
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AP – The challenge by Iraq’s Shiite fill in minister to election results that showed him coming in a close second to his chief rival — Sunni-backed Ayad Allawi — is a risky tactic.

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Iraq to release full results from March 7 vote (AP)

Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 3:32 am  
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VIDEO - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi are running neck-and-neck in Iraq's general election according to updated results which show a divide of only 40,000 votes. Duration: 00:45(AFP)AP – Iraq’s electoral commission says it will announce full election results as scheduled despite calls for a delay amid fears of violence over the forceful race.


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Calif. pot vote isn’t just hippies versus cops (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 5:48 pm  
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In this photo taken May 13, 2009 marijuana grown for medical purposes is shown inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif. In the mountain forests along California's North Coast, refugees from San Francisco's Summer of Love have spent four decades hiding from the law as they tended some of the world's most fabled marijuana gardens. After all those years, several statewide efforts to legalize marijuana could finally let those growers come out into the light. But at a community meeting in the heart of Northern California pot country on Tuesday, many growers said they were more worried about the cost of legalization to their bottom lines than about any federal raid. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP – SAN FRANCISCO — Now that a proposal to authorize pot is on the ballot in California, well-methodical groups are lining up on both sides of the debate. And it’s not just tie-dyed hippies versus anti-drug crusaders.


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Threats against lawmakers spread after health vote (AP)

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 at 5:31 pm  
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This picture provided on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 by the Monroe County Democratic Committee in Rochester, N.Y. shows damage to their office after a glass door was struck with a brick with a note reading 'Exremism in Defense of Liberty Is no Vice' sometime from late Saturday, March 20, 2010 or Sunday, March 21, 2010. Bricks have been hurled through Democrats' windows, a propane line was cut at the home of a congressman's brother and lawmakers who voted for a federal health care bill have received phone threats in the days before and after passage of the sweeping legislation. (AP Photo/Monroe County Democratic Committee)AP – A fax bearing the image of a noose. Profane voice mails. Bricks thrown, a gas line cut. White powder sent to an office.


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Before health vote, a weekend of ugly discourse (AP)

Monday, March 22nd, 2010 at 5:48 pm  
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FILE - In this Friday, March 19, 2010 file photo, a protester is removed by a security officer as President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)AP – Remember how shocking it was six months ago when Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” to the president?


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