• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Immigration may have cost Majority Leader Eric Cantor his election. His defeat almost certainly dooms the issue in the House.
• Cantor, R-Va., was supposed to cruise to victory in Tuesday's GOP primary over Dave Brat, an underfunded political novice who is an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College.
• The only question was how wide Cantor's winning margin would be. Immigration advocates were watching intently, hoping that if it was big enough, Cantor would feel free to green-light action on immigration legislation in the House.
• Instead Cantor lost, decisively, after a campaign in which Brat made immigration the central issue. Brat accused Cantor of embracing "amnesty" and open borders, signed an anti-immigration pledge, and got assists in recent weeks from conservative figures popular with tea party voters such as radio host Laura Ingraham and columnist Ann Coulter, who labeled Cantor "amnesty-addled."
• Cantor fought back, boasting in strongly worded mailers of shutting down plans to grant "amnesty" to "illegal aliens" -- a changed tone for a lawmaker who'd spoken out in favor of citizenship for immigrants brought illegally to this country as youths.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The deaths of five Americans killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan stand as a fresh reminder of the dangers of friendly fire, an element of war that is older than the nation.
• In 1758, during the French and Indian War, a detachment of the British Army led by Col. George Washington got into a firefight with a fellow infantry unit that had arrived to offer assistance. At dusk on a foggy day, they apparently mistook each other for French forces, and at least 13 British troops were killed.
• In the Civil War, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died of pneumonia eight days after being hit by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
• In World War II, Army Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair died when an errant Allied bomb

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