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American airline says things should be back to normal by the end of the day. It is an announcement that comes after more than 3,000 flights are canceled this week by the nation’s largest carrier. Mechanics set tosaid they recheck the wiring of 300 American jets after they failed to pass government inspection.

Defending its his previous comment that voters are bitter, Barack Obama told the crowd in Indiana that people are feed up in and angry with Washington. Democratic presidential-hopeful added that people usually don’t vote in their economic interest because they don’t believe anybody in Washington can help them.

President Bush ihasn’t changing his plan to attend the Summer Olympics in Beijing. Human rights activists want world leaders to skip the opening ceremony to protest China’s crack down in Tibet. But Bush has told ABC News that the Olympics are a sporting event, not a political event.

A car at New Yorkcurbed hurtled up the Court House steps made famous by law and order on Friday injuring 6 people, one of whom was pinnedP beneath the vehicle and had been freed by firefights. Policesisare still trying to determine what caused the wreck.

Tim Maguire, the Associated Press, with the AP News Minute.