Haiti postpones preliminary results of presidential election
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians will have to wait a few more days to learn the preliminary results of their presidential election.
An official with Haiti’s electoral council says preliminary results will be postponed to give poll workers more time to count ballots. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not yet been made public.
The preliminary results will now be released Monday.
Libyan rebels flee Gadhafi assault as world continues debate
RAS LANOUF, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi’s forces hammered rebels with tanks and rockets, turning their rapid advance into a panicked retreat in an hourslong battle Tuesday. The fighting underscored the dilemma facing the U.S. and its allies in Libya: Rebels may be unable to oust Gadhafi militarily unless already contentious international airstrikes go even further in taking out his forces.
World leaders meeting in London agreed Gadhafi should step down, but have yet to decide what additional pressure to put on him.
Gunmen kill 56 in grisly siege of Iraqi government center
BAGHDAD (AP) — Wearing military uniforms over explosives belts, gunmen held a local Iraqi government center hostage Tuesday in a grisly siege that ended with the deaths of at least 56 people, including three councilmen who were executed with gunshots to the head.
The five-hour standoff in Tikrit, former dictator Saddam Hussein’s home town, ended only when the attackers blew themselves up in one of the bloodiest days in Iraq this year.
Wisconsin judge rules against implementation of bargaining law
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has ruled that there should be no further implementation of a law taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi said Tuesday that her earlier restraining order saying the law shouldn’t be enacted had either been ignored or misinterpreted.
Sumi stopped short of saying the law was not already in effect. She says she will take more testimony on that issue.
Obama: United States at center of Libya mission but not alone
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says the nation’s conscience and its common interests “compel us to act” to protect civilian lives in Libya. He says the international military effort against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi places the U.S. at the center of the mission, “but not alone.”
In the shadow of the United Nations, the president said the international community is haunted by past failures to save innocent lives. He said force should not be the first option against a country like Libya.
Exonerated inmate does not get $14 million
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ideologically divided Supreme Court overturned a $14 million judgment given to a former death row inmate who was convicted of murder after New Orleans prosecutors withheld evidence in his trial.
The court’s five conservative-leaning justices said the New Orleans district attorney’s office should not be punished for not providing specific training to young prosecutors on Brady rights, which dictate when to turn over evidence to a suspect’s lawyer that could prove their innocence.
But in a rare oral dissent read directly from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that John Thompson deserved damages for “the gross, deliberately indifferent and long-continuing violation of his fair trial rights.”
Thompson, who at one point was only weeks away from being executed, successfully sued the prosecutor’s office in New Orleans, arguing former District Attorney Harry Connick showed deliberate indifference by not providing adequate training for assistant district attorneys.
 
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