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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — It could turn out to be a valuable clue in the search for the Malaysian Airlines aircraft that apparently vanished while over the South China Sea on Saturday. A Chinese news agency is reporting that satellite images on a Chinese government website show suspected debris from the plane. The objects were floating off the southern tip of Vietnam, near the plane's original flight path. No other governments have confirmed the report. Two-thirds of the 239 passengers on the flight -- bound for Beijing -- were Chinese.
NEW YORK (AP) — Officials in New York say at least three people have been killed, more than 60 injured and nine may be missing because of the collapse of two apartment buildings brought down by an apparent gas explosion. It happened in East Harlem this morning. Rescuers are combing the wreckage. Thermal imaging cameras are among the tools being used in the search.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has welcomed Ukraine's new leader to the White House. The president says the U.S. wouldn't recognize the Crimea region as a country, if it votes to break off and join Russia. Meanwhile, Congress is pushing aid for Ukraine and sanctions for Russians involved in the incursion that took over Crimea.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Catholic bishops and evangelical leaders have met with top House Republicans to argue for action this year on immigration legislation. Bishops from Washington state, California and Utah joined advocates in a series of private meetings with lawmakers from those states. The leaders and advocates said the lawmakers offered neither assurances of a vote nor definitive word that it wouldn't happened. Immigration legislation remains stalled in the House.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A late-winter storm that has swept through the Midwest and is bearing down on the Northeast is blamed for two deaths that resulted from pileups on the Ohio Turnpike. Pileups stretched across a 2-mile section in the eastbound lanes of the turnpike between Toledo and Cleveland. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in northern Illinois and Indiana lost power. Upstate New York and parts of New England could see 2 feet of snow.
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