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Taliban fight in Afghan town with fear campaign (AP)
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.



Iraqi PM fights for survival as votes are counted (AP)
Iraqi policemen stand guard in front of an election campaign poster for former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. A secular coalition led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi challenging the Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in the country's historic parliamentary elections narrowly pulls ahead for the first time in the overall vote count. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The man who has led Iraq for the past four years is battling for his political survival just as U.S. troops are getting ready to pack up and go home.



Cuban security agents break up protest march (AP)
**  CORRECTS SPELLING OF MONTH MARCH  ** A member of the Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, is grabbed by a security agent during a protest in Havana, Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented Ladies in White from marching on the outskirts of the capital to demand release of their jailed husbands and sons, physically removing them when they lay down in the street in protest. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Uniformed Cuban security agents prevented the mothers and wives of dissidents from marching on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday to demand release of their loved ones, shoving them into a bus when they lay down in the street in protest.



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US: Asian casino boss has mob ties in China (AP)
New Jersey casino regulators said Wednesday that they have evidence Stanley Ho, the Asian casino magnate, has extensive ties to organized crime in China.


Calif. politics has short sellers facing big bills (AP)
What should have been a legislative afterthought is threatening to become a financial purgatory for thousands of California taxpayers hit by the housing crisis.


AP finds over 100 complaints about fixed Toyotas (AP)
An analysis by The Associated Press finds that the 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.


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AP finds over 100 complaints about fixed Toyotas (AP)
Toyota representatives examine a crashed Toyota Prius, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, in Harrison, N.Y. Toyota recalled more than 8 million cars because their gas pedals could become stuck or be snagged by floor mats. In addition, the government is looking into complaints from at least 60 Toyota drivers who say they got their cars fixed and still had problems. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - An analysis by The Associated Press finds that the 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.



Stocks climb after Fed pledges to hold rates low (AP)
Im this March 16, 2010 photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stock prices rose Wednesday, March 17, after U.S. and Japanese central banks reaffirmed plans to keep interest rates low in an effort to drive economic growth. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)AP - The stock market continued its slow but steady advance of the past month as investors grew more confident that interest rates will remain at low levels.



Prescription-drug heists on the rise (AP)
The Eli Lilly warehouse is seen here in Enfield, Conn., Tuesday, March 16, 2010.  Authorities say tens of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs have been stolen in a brazen, well-planned heist at a pharmaceutical company's regional warehouse in Connecticut.  (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Leslloyd F. Alleyne) MANDATORY CREDITAP - The $75 million heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Connecticut this week was just the most audacious example of a growing phenomenon: Thieves are stealing large quantities of prescription drugs for resale on the black market.



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Viacom-YouTube secrets to be exposed in lawsuit (AP)
AP - Viacom and YouTube likely will be forced to expose business secrets and other previously confidential information Thursday when reams of court documents are expected to be unsealed.


Yahoo buying fantasy sports company Citizen Sports (AP)
AP - Yahoo is buying a fantasy sports company co-founded by an MIT graduate whose card-counting skills helped him win millions of dollars in blackjack and spawned a film and a best-selling book.


When tweets can make you a jailbird (AP)
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009, file photo, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville displays part of the Facebook page, and an enlarged profile photo, of fugitive Maxi Sopo in Seattle. The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime fighting. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Maxi Sopo was having so much fun "living in paradise" in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle, where Sopo was wanted on bank fraud charges.



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



Hawaii considering law to ignore Obama 'birthers' (AP)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen, wave at President Barack Obama as he departs Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 17, 2010, after attending a Friends of Ireland luncheon for St. Patrick's Day. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.



Rep. Kucinich switches to 'yes' on health care (AP)
Several hundred demonstrators gather for a AP - President Barack Obama's much-challenged health care overhaul gained traction Wednesday as a liberal lawmaker became the first to switch his opposition and Catholic nuns declared their support in an unusual public break with the bishops.