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WASHINGTON (AP) — Establishment Republicans held off tea party challenges in a couple of closely watched primaries. Republican incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran narrowly turned back a challenge from state Sen. Chris McDaniel. And two-term Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma won the GOP nomination in the race to succeed Sen. Tom Coburn by defeating T.W. Shannon, a member of the Chickasaw Nation. In New York, longtime Democratic Rep Charles Rangel has the lead in a primary that's too close to call.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The government is facing a choice when it comes to enforcing its no fly list. It can accede to a federal judge's ruling that the Department of Homeland Security must give people a better avenue to pursue a claim that they were wrongly put on the list. Or, Washington can try to find a way around the decision in a case brought by more than a dozen Muslims.
MOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of Russia's parliament has decided to drop a request for military authorization in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin demanded the action in a move intended to show Moscow's eagerness to de-escalate tensions and avoid a new round of Western sanctions.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's Shiite prime minister is stopping short of implementing greater political inclusiveness for minority Sunnis, but he is calling on his nation's political blocs to close ranks in the face of Sunni militants. The U.S. is pressing for a more inclusive government to draw support away from the militants who have overrun much of Iraq's north.
ANSAN, South Korea (AP) — It wasn't a gleeful return today as more than 70 South Korean teenagers who survived a ferry sinking that killed hundreds of their schoolmates attended their first classes since the April disaster. As parents of the dead wept, the students walked in a somber procession from a bus to the school entrance. Some stopped to hug the parents of their friends, who caressed their hair and faces.
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