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Everyone's playing hardball on the health care bill (AP) -

Several hundred demonstrators gather for a AP - With time and tempers short, everyone's playing hardball in the drive to pass — or stop — President Barack Obama's massive health care legislation by the weekend.


Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial (AP) -

FILE - This April 1998 picture shows al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 that bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. (AP Photo)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.


U.S. official cancels Israel trip as Jerusalem clashes erupt (AP) -

Palestinian demonstrators hurl stones at Israeli troops, not seen, in east Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Dozens of masked Palestinians hurled rocks at police and set tires ablaze across the holy city's volatile eastern sector, where thousands of officers, including reinforcements brought in from other locations, were in place for a fifth straight day. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - Hundreds of Palestinians in east Jerusalem set tires and garbage bins ablaze on Tuesday and hurled rocks at Israeli riot police, who responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. The heaviest clashes in months broke out as an American envoy abruptly canceled a visit, deepening a U.S.-Israeli diplomatic feud.


Clinic: Ohioan championed by Obama will keep home (AP) -

President Barack Obama is introduced by Connie Anderson, sister of cancer patient Natoma Canfield, who wrote the president saying she gave up her health insurance after it rose, prior to speaking about health care reform, Monday, March 15, 2010, at the Walter F. Ehrnfelt Recreation and Senior Center in Strongsville, Ohio. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - A cancer patient who has emerged as the emblem of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was stunned last month when she unsealed a handwritten letter from none other than the president himself.


Challenger overtakes Iraq PM in overall vote count (AP) -

Electoral workers sort through ballots cast at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A coalition challenging Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in parliamentary elections is ahead for the first time in the overall vote count, although still trailing in the province-by-province count.



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