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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A well-known name in New Mexico politics has joined the race for governor. (more)

Trickle of aid to Haiti quake survivors worries officials as hunger, thirst beset ruined city (more)

KABUL (AP) — The Afghan parliament has approved President Hamid Karzai’s picks for foreign and justice ministers but rejected the nominee for higher education as voting began on a second slate of Cabinet choices after lawmakers rejected most of his first list. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has filled key government jobs about as fast as the Bush administration, but too many top positions — about 40 percent — remain vacant nearly one year after Obama took office, says a report being released Wednesday. (more)

A look at Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s second slate of 16 nominees for his new Cabinet presented Saturday to replace candidates that parliament rejected. No names have yet been submitted to head the Ministry of Energy and Water or the Ministry of Telecommunications. (more)

WASHINGTON — With the 2010 election year barely under way, two senators and one governor — all Democrats — ditched plans to run for re-election in the latest signs of trouble for President Barack Obama’s party. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic sources tell The Associated Press that Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter won’t run for re-election this fall. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruling Tuesday could make it harder for Guantanamo detainees to challenge their confinement and endorsed the government’s broad power to hold people seized in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban. (more)

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he’s concerned there aren’t more people with varying professional backgrounds being nominated to the nation’s highest court. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — When Performance Food Group opted to build an operations center in South Carolina rather than its home state of Virginia, then-chairman Bob Sledd said the decision killed him. (more)