• A Look at McCain's Energy Policy
• Corporate Conflict of Interest in the Supreme Court
• Palestinian Refugees in Chile
• Youth Lakota Ride
• Latino Health Care

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• Synchronized Bombs Rip Through Indian City
• Earthquake Relief Efforts Underway in China as Thousands Remain Trapped
• Hundreds Detained in Largest Single-Site Immigration Raid in US History
• Colombian Paramilitary Leaders Extradited
• Continued Wrangling Over Terms and Conditions of Gaza-Israeli Ceasefire
• Senate Passes Measure to Stop Filling Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Voters head to the polls in West Virginia today. With 28 delegates at stake, and 11 super delegates in the Democratic race, Senator Hillary Clinton is expected to win by large margins there – having spent a good amount of time in the state in recent days. Senator Barack Obama has picked up additional super delegates, and by many counts, has surpassed Clinton in the race for super delegates. But both candidates took some time off from campaigning to travel to Washington DC to vote for a measure aimed at relieving sky rocketing gas prices. And, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain stayed on the campaign trail promoting his long term plan to combat high gas prices and global warming. FSRN's Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.

Four of the nine Supreme Court members recused themselves from a case leaving them without a quorum. The matter was brought by South African apartheid survivors who accuse U.S. corporations of collaborating with the apartheid regime. Because of the high court's inability to act, the way is cleared for the lawsuit to proceed – rejecting a move from corporations, backed by the Bush administration, to dismiss the claims. FSRN's Tanya Snyder probes deeper into the conflict of interest in the Supreme Court.

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The US-led war in Iraq has resulted in masses of refugees, many of them Palestinian-Iraqis, who now mostly reside in desert camps on the Iraq Syria border. After the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees pleaded with its member nations, Chile's government said it would allow 117 Palestinians to enter the South American country. FSRN's Jorge Garreton is in Chile, where a handful of Palestinian refugee families have arrived.

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Fifty Lakota youth took part in a 100-mile horseback ride across South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation last week. The goal of the journey was to reconnect the young riders with their culture and with their land. FSRN's Jim Kent visited the Lakota riders in the middle of a spring snowstorm on the final day of their 4-day expedition.

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