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• TOP OF THE TICKET
• Tuesday's top elections are the Republican primaries to pick U.S. Senate nominees in Kentucky, Georgia and Oregon. Oregon Republicans select a challenger to first-term Sen. Jeff Merkley, who only recently emerged as a GOP target. Georgia is a crowded race, and a July runoff is likely. The biggest noise, although probably not the biggest suspense, will come in Kentucky.
• GOP SHOWDOWN: KENTUCKY
• There's probably no one tea party conservatives would rather knock off than Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader who they view as too ready to compromise with Democrats. Their hopes were once high for Matt Bevin, a businessman making his first run for office.
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• MOSCOW (AP) -- Pro-Russian insurgents fighting Ukrainian government forces faced public dismay and a new challenge from the country's richest man Tuesday, while Russia's Defense Ministry said its units have started dismantling their camps in the border regions.
• A day after President Vladimir Putin issued a pullout order in an apparent bid to ease tensions with the West over Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its forces in the Bryansk, Belgorod and Rostov regions were preparing for a journey to their home bases.
• NATO, which estimates that Russia has 40,000 troops along the border with Ukraine, said it is watching the situation closely, but could not yet confirm a change. NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu challenged the Russians Tuesday "to prove that they are doing what they are saying."
• The Russian Defense Ministry said it would take time for troops to dismantle their camps and load equipment on trucks for a march to railway stations. It didn't say how many troops were being pulled out from the three regions or how long it would take.
• Footage broadcast by Russian television showed what it said were troops on

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