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...Within hours of Obama's election, global trouble spots were vying for the President-elect's attention. "This is my first demand of the new President of the United States - to put an end to civilian casualties," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday in Kabul, following reports that a U.S. bombing in southern Afghanistan Monday killed 37 people at a wedding party, most of them women and children...
...measure to ban affirmative action in Colorado was trailing by just 0.1% of the vote Wednesday morning and the final decision is still too close to call. Some progressive groups have derided the measure and questioned whether it was accurately represented as a "Civil Rights Initiative." Led by Ward Connerly, an African-American management consultant and former regent at the University of California, Colorado's Amendment 46 follows similar efforts by the activist that have passed in California, Washington and Michigan. Connerly has hailed Barack Obama's political success as evidence that affirmative action is outdated...
...Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss had led his Democratic challenger Jim Martin for most of Tuesday night, but saw his lead dwindle in the early hours of Wednesday morning. In Georgia, state election law requires a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% of the vote plus one. By midday Wednesday, Chambliss had 49.9% and Martin had 46.7% according to state election officials. (A third candidate had the remainder of the votes and will not be part of any runoff...
...Whatever his preference, he'll have to get out of the Madrid airport first. On Monday, the fourth son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden took advantage of a layover on his Cairo-to-Casablanca flight to seek political asylum in Spain. But on Wednesday, Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed it had rejected his request. A ministry official said the government determined that bin Laden did not "meet the conditions necessary for entering Spain." (The ministry official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy.) He has 24 hours to make an initial appeal and remains...
...example of the chicanery, text messages were sent to students at Florida State University in Tallahassee saying, "Due to long lines today, all Obama voters are asked to vote on Wednesday," according to Heather Smith of the nonpartisan group Rock the Vote. Greenbaum echoed Smith's concern, saying such deception "has been a frequent refrain...