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• . OBAMA PITCHES MORTGAGE REFORM
• The president heads to Phoenix to outline his plan to shut down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• . GUNMAN KILLS 3 AT TOWN MEETING
• Ross Township, Pa., police say Rockne Newell was feuding with officials over violations for the condition of his home.
• . A-ROD STILL PLAYING, BUT FOR HOW LONG?
• The AP's Mike Fitzpatrick says the embattled, injury-prone slugger may be done with his All-Star career if he has to serve a 200-plus game suspension
• . MOBSTER CASE HEADED TO JURY
• Whitey Bulger's lawyers told jurors not to believe gangsters-turned-informants who testified against the 83-year-old accused of 19 killings in the 1970s and '80s.
• . ANOTHER POLITICIAN IN SEXTING SCANDAL
• Australian lawmaker Peter Dowling resigned as head of an ethics committee after he was accused of sending graphic pictures of himself to a woman.
• . GOP DEMANDS NETS PULL PLUG ON CLINTON
• The Republican National Committee threatened to blackball NBC and CNN from future GOP debates if they aired documentaries on the likely Democratic presidential contender.
• . PYTHON ESCAPES FROM PET STORE, KILLS 2 BOYS
• The snake got out of its enclosure and slithered through air vents to an upstairs apartment in Canada where the 5- and 7-year-old boys were staying.
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AP News in Brief
State Dept. urges US citizens to leave Yemen, orders partial shutdown of embassy
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country following the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.
• The department said in a travel warning that it had ordered the departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Yemen "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" and said U.S. citizens in Yemen should leave immediately because of an "extremely high" security threat level.
• "As staff levels at the Embassy are restricted, our ability to assist U.S. citizens in (Continued on page 23)
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