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OPATOVAC, Croatia (AP) — Tiny Slovenia says so many refugees are pouring into the country that it is becoming impossible to deal with the influx in a proper way. The Interior Ministry says five trains packed with asylum-seekers have arrived today from Croatia and more are expected overnight. She says 1,000 other migrants arrived on buses, so a total of 15,000 people will have entered the country by the end of the day.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister has conceded defeat after an exit poll showed that her pro-European Civic Platform party faced a decisive defeat by the right-wing Law and Justice party. The exit poll by Ipsos shows that Law and Justice won 39.1 percent of today's parliamentary vote. If confirmed by official results, expected tomorrow, that would give Law and Justice 242 seats in the 460-seat lower house of parliament, allowing it to govern alone.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — After days of torrential rainfall, Texas is finally starting to dry out. Roads have reopened in Austin and swollen bayous around Houston have receded. Some parts of the state got more than a foot of rain since Friday. One man is missing after being caught by floodwaters near San Antonio, but no deaths have been confirmed.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Chris Christie is apologizing for making too much noise on an Amtrak quiet car. That's where riders are encouraged to maintain a "library-like atmosphere." Spokeswoman Samantha Smith says the New Jersey governor accidentally took a seat in the quiet car while traveling back from Washington after appearing on the CBS program "Face the Nation." Smith says after breaking "the cardinal rule of the quiet car," Christie promptly moved to the cafe car.
BOSTON (AP) — Jimmy Fallon has taken another tumble. Four months after he needed emergency surgery to save one of his fingers after a fall, the "Tonight Show" host hurt his other hand in a spill at a party in his honor yesterday. Fallon tweeted a picture of his hand with a couple of small bandages on his fingers, writing that it was "nothing a few band-aids couldn't fix."
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