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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man who challenged the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans will be honored in California every year under a bill signed into law by Gov.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghans braved Taliban rockets and polling site bombings Saturday to vote for a new parliament in elections seen as a measure of the government's competence and commitment to democratic rule.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Men in traditional tunics and women covered in sky-blue burqas trickled into polling centers to vote in Afghanistan's parliamentary election Saturday, as scattered attacks and the closure of some voting sites by insurgents underscored the difficulty of trying to hold a vote in a country at war.