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(CNN) -- Maj. Gen. Robert Harding said Friday that, "with deep regret," he has withdrawn his name from nomination to lead the Transportation Security Administration.

"This was a great honor, and I felt that I could bring some leadership, vision and intelligence expertise to that position," he said in a statement. "Ultimately, my goal was to improve the security of our nation's transportation systems. However, I feel that the distractions caused by my work as a defense contractor would not be good for this administration nor for the Department of Homeland Security."

The TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

White House Spokesman Nicholas Shapiro noted that Harding has more than 35 years of military and intelligence experience, and added, "The President is disappointed in this outcome but remains confident in the solid team of professionals at TSA."

At a hearing on Wednesday, Harding acknowledged "making mistakes" when a company he formed overbilled the government in 2004.

At issue is a contract that Harding's company, Harding Security Associates, signed with the Defense Department in early 2004 to provide 40 interrogators and debriefers rapidly in Iraq.

Within four months of his firm starting work on the contract, Harding said, the government decided to end the contract.

"I then faced 40 individuals who were now without work," the nominee said, adding that some of them he had lured away from other jobs, including the CIA.

Harding said he told his employees "that I would take care of them, and that I would negotiate and work with the government to provide severance payments." The total severance payments came to about $800,000, Harding said.

"When I went to claim it from the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency]," government auditors "recognized that I did not have a policy on that, that I had not negotiated with the government for severance, I had not provided the government my plan for severance ... and therefore it was not allowed, that $800,000."

Harding said that government auditors subsequently admitted "there were mistakes on both sides."

The White House said it was "disappointed" at Harding's withdrawal.

"By nominating General Harding, the president tapped an individual with more than 35 years of military and intelligence experience who is dedicated to improving the security of our nation," Shapiro said.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she felt misled by a White House explanation of the events. The White House compared $2.4 million in disputed charges that included the $800,000 in severance payments to the $53 million potential value of the contract, instead of the $6 million value of the work.

"Of the $6 million that HSA was paid, $2.4 million was [in] question. That's a pretty high percentage. The White House, in talking to me about this issue, compared it to $53 million, but that's not what was at stake here at all, and I thought the White House's comparison was pretty misleading," Collins said.

An independent investigation concluded that no fraud was involved. Ultimately, HSA reached a settlement with the government, with HSA paying back $1.8 million of the disputed $2.4 million.

Harding said he learned from his mistake. He said the mistake caused him to add an accounting operation and otherwise professionalize the business, eventually increasing it in size from 60 people in 2004 to about 400 people when he sold the business last year.

Following the hearing, Collins said that Harding "adequately addressed my concerns regarding" the contracts. "Before making a final determination, however, I want to review additional information in order to ensure that all relevant data regarding the nominee have been thoroughly examined," she said.

Harding was Obama's second nominee to head the agency. Sen. James DeMint, R-South Carolina, put a hold on the first nominee, Erroll Southers, after Southers declined to say whether he supported unionization of screeners.

Southers eventually withdrew his name from consideration after another controversy erupted involving a decades-old personnel matter.

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(CNN) -- The space shuttle Atlantis crew completed its first spacewalk to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, a daylong act of grueling labor that featured the replacement and installation of key instruments.

Spacewalkers remove a camera from the Hubble on Thursday.

Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel removed the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 and swapped it out with an updated model, a device that "will allow the telescope to take large-scale, clear and detailed photos over a wide range of colors," NASA said.

But they had a tough time removing a bolt in that task, an issue that caused some concern for colleagues on the ground. They eventually released it.

"OK, here we go. I think I got it. It turned. It turned. And it's turning easily now," Feustel said. "Very nice."

In all, the repair mission took seven hours and 20 minutes, a hard day's work that ended at 4:12 p.m. EDT.

"It turned out very well," lead flight director Tony Ceccacci said during a NASA briefing.

The team also replaced a Science Instrument Command and Data Handling Unit, a computer that "sends commands to Hubble's science instruments and formats science data for transmission to the ground," NASA said.

The team "installed a soft capture mechanism, a device that will allow future vehicles to attach to the telescope," NASA said.

And they installed "a combination of locks and latches that will allow for faster opening and closing of the telescope doors during the third spacewalk."

"This is a huge accomplishment," Preston Burch, Hubble Space Telescope program manager, said during a briefing. "Our first EVA day in more than seven years." EVA is the acronym for "extravehicular activity," the phrase for spacewalking.

It was the first of five spacewalks scheduled during the 11-day mission in which the crew will work in the shuttle's cargo bay to upgrade and repair Hubble.

Astronauts Michael Good and Mike Massimino will perform the next spacewalk on Friday. They will be installing gyroscopes and batteries.  Learn more about the Hubble repairs Â»

The mission is one of the most ambitious space repair efforts ever attempted.

Atlantis launched Monday afternoon for NASA's fifth and final repair visit to the telescope.  Watch Atlantis lift off on Hubble mission Â»

After a two-day chase, the shuttle captured the telescope Wednesday with its robotic arm some 350 miles above Earth and pulled it into Atlantis' cargo bay for service.  Watch Atlantis snag the Hubble Â»

It's been seven years since the last space shuttle crew worked on the telescope, which has been latched to a rotating, "lazy Susan"-type device for five days of repairs and remodeling.

A camera mounted on the shuttle's robotic arm, 200 feet from the telescope, is taking pictures of it -- the first time the telescope has been seen since March 2002.

An umbilical line was connected to provide electricity from Atlantis to the telescope, according to NASA. Mission commander Scott Altman also will position the shuttle to allow Hubble's solar arrays to gather energy from the sun and recharge the telescope's batteries.

The timeline for the spacewalks is so tight, there's a chance the astronauts won't get everything done, especially if they hit any snags. And that's a real possibility because some of the repairs they are attempting have never been tried before.

NASA canceled an Atlantis mission to extend Hubble's operational life in January 2004 because the trip was considered too risky in the wake of the 2003 space shuttle Columbia disaster, which killed seven astronauts.

That accident was blamed on a hole punched in the front of the wing by debris during liftoff. But public pressure and steps taken to increase shuttle safety led the space agency to reconsider.

Hubble's "greatest discoveries," NASA says, include determining the age of the universe -- 13.7 billion years, discovering that "virtually all major galaxies have black holes at their center," and "providing evidence that the speed at which the universe is expanding is accelerating -- caused by an unknown force that makes up for more than 75 percent of the universe."

CNN's John Zarrella and Kim Segal contributed to this report

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Atlanta (CNN) -- Engine problems forced the pilot of a Delta Air Lines aircraft to turn back Thursday night shortly after takeoff from Atlanta, the company said Friday.

The aircraft returned to Atlanta without incident, spokeswoman Gina Laughlin said.

Passengers aboard Flight 1442 from Atlanta to Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN affiliate WSOC that they had been airborne about 10 or 20 minutes when one of the engines appeared to catch on fire. Laughlin could not confirm the report of flames, but said crew members reported smoke in the cabin following the incident.

Passenger Ginger Heath said the incident began with a shaking sensation, followed by "sparks, a great big boom and lots and lots of fire" from the engine. "After that smoke starting coming out of the air vents."

Other passengers told CNN affiliate WBTV that they heard a "huge crashing sound" and felt what seemed like "bad turbulence."

"I kind of thought I was going to die for a second," one passenger interviewed by WBTV said.

"A couple of people got hysterical," passenger Atiim Browne told WSOC. "The lady behind me was crying. A couple of people kind of looked at it, you know, as life flashing before their eyes and stuff like that. But again we got back on the floor within a couple of minutes so it wasn't too bad."

Delta mechanics were inspecting the aircraft Friday, Laughlin said.

CNN's Ayesha Durgahee contributed to this report.

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lankan soldiers have seized a key rebel stronghold after launching a surprise attack early Sunday morning, the head of Sri Lanka's army announced.

Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka says a key Tamil town has been taken in a national TV broadcast Sunday.

Troops crossed a lagoon and entered the town of Mullaittivu before encountering heavy resistance from Tamil fighters, according to the government-run news agency.

"Our troops fought their way through a 40 km (25 mile) thick jungle track," Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka said in a televised address on Sunday.

"This is the long awaited victory and I am happy to say that our heroic forces today captured the Mullaittivu town after 12 years," the Sri Lanka Army chief said.

There is no confirmation from the rebels that the strategic garrison has been overtaken.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- commonly known as the Tamil Tigers -- have fought for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983. The civil war has left more than 70,000 people dead.

The rebels gained control over Mullaittivu in 1996 and established a military garrison there, according to the government.

In recent days, the military has made significant progress in its campaign to recapture rebel strongholds.

Earlier this month, troops regained control of the northern town of Elephant Pass, the point at which mainland Sri Lanka links to the northern Jaffna peninsula.

It had been in rebel hands for more than nine years.

The re-capture enabled the government to use a highway linking the mainland to the peninsula to move troops and supplies. Previously, it was done by air and sea.

"The area that the LTTE has dominated has shrank phenomenally," Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, C.R Jayasinghe, told CNN. "They lost... about 90 percent of what they had."

Despite major government gains, critics point to ongoing civilian casualties resultant from the conflict.

"This is an important strategic success for the army, but literally tens of thousands of people, children, are in the line of fire," United Nations spokesman James Elder said in a phone conversation Sunday.

"Some Sri Lankan U.N. staff are trapped there," he added. "Convoys are going to the area, delivering emergency supplies, but these are not sufficient for the number of people in need."

Sri Lankan authorities are barring journalists and humanitarian aid workers from areas where heavy fighting is taking place.

Amnesty International spokesman Shuransu Mishra estimated that "over a quarter of a million of the population, mostly Tamils, are trapped between the two sides."

The organization says greater access and protection for aid workers and journalists are needed as news agencies struggle to report an accurate picture of the conflict.

"The Sri Lankan authorities are doing little to ensure the safety of the country's media, or to prosecute those responsible for murdering or attacking them," Amnesty International spokeswoman Yolanda Foster said in a written statement on Friday.

"They (Sri Lankan authorities) are also directly responsible for subjecting journalists to harassment and interrogation," she said.

At least 14 journalists have been killed since the start of 2006, according to the statement.

Others have been driven from the country by death threats, or in fear of detention and torture by government authorities, it said.

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(WIRED) -- Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3-D gestures, such as a swirl or swipe of the hand.

As suggested by a newly uncovered Apple patent, you would be able to manipulate and control graphical elements on your display, such as icons, media files, text and images. The gestures themselves could take many forms: geometric shapes (e.g., a half-circle or square), symbols (like a check mark or question mark), the letters of the alphabet, and other sorts of predetermined patterns.

One interesting application the patent highlights is video annotation and editing via a gesture-based toolbar. The toolbar would provide pre-set options for beginners, but would also allow more advanced users to customize their own gestures.

A previously discovered patent indicates that Apple could be working on an integrated projector for iDevices that would incorporate physical gestures as a method to manipulate a projected image. This newer patent, however, focuses more on the gestures themselves and other ways they could be used to control onscreen images and video. There's no mention of Siri or combining voice control with physical gestures.

The 3-D gesture-capturing method would employ a device's front-facing camera. The iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S all include a front-facing camera, so if Apple, say, decided to integrate this feature in an upcoming version of iOS, it's possible that legacy iDevice models could employ the technology as well.

That said, the patent does suggest that older iPhones may not have enough processing power for the gesture-capturing workload, as it shows a way to transfer video from the iPhone to an iPad for more advanced editing options.

The patent pre-defines a number of gestures, such as ones for facial recognition, a selection gesture and a pointing gesture (to identify a specific section of an onscreen image).

The patent was originally filed in mid-2010.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)  -- More than half the Christian population has fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in reaction to a campaign of killings and intimidation, according to the United Nations.

Christian women attend a religious service Sunday at a church in Baghdad.

An estimated 13,000 Christians have left because of oppression the U.S. government blames on al Qaeda in Iraq.

Mosul, in Nineveh province, is one of the last Iraqi cities where al Qaeda in Iraq has a significant presence and routinely carries out attacks.

An estimated 2,300 families have fled Mosul this month, but the exodus has started to ebb, Nineveh province's Deputy Gov. Khasro Goran said Tuesday. No Christian family has left the city over the past seven days, and at least 100 families returned to their homes in and around Mosul during that time, Goran said.

Authorities said they believe Christian demonstrations earlier this month may have prompted the attacks. Hundreds of Christians took to the streets in Mosul and surrounding villages and towns demanding adequate representation on provincial councils, whose members will be chosen in local elections in January.

The violence that followed those protests left at least 14 Iraqi Christians dead and prompted the Iraqi government to dispatch more security forces to patrol the city. Violence has declined as a result, Iraqi officials said.

Last week, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said the anti-Christian attacks and threats are partly "due to elements of al Qaeda that still enjoy some ability to operate up there."

"This is an attempt, it appears, to try to inflame tensions and fault lines that exist between religious and sectarian groups," Morrell said.

The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is helping many of the displaced families, most of whom have fled to nearby villages in Nineveh province. About 400 others have crossed into Syria, but many have said they no longer feel safe there, according to the refugee agency.

Syria already hosts more than 1 million Iraqi refugees.

The U.N. agency said many of the Iraqi Christians told stories of intimidation and death threats.

"One woman said she and her mother left Mosul early last week, two days after someone called one of her colleagues at work and said that all Christians should leave the city immediately or be killed," according to a UNHCR news release.

"She said she was unnerved but decided to leave only after hearing reports that 11 people had been killed at a checkpoint by militiamen dressed as police officers. She and her mother escaped with a couple of bags and all the money that they had in the house -- they did not dare go to the bank to remove their savings."

A nurse told UNHCR that the threats against Christians in Mosul began months ago "with phone calls, letters and messages left on doors."

In other violence Tuesday in Mosul, four police officers were killed and four wounded when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.

Gunmen in cars ambushed police as they were on their way to start work in west Mosul's al-Amil neighborhood, the official said.

Also Tuesday in Baghdad, six civilians died and 23 were hurt in four bombings, the official said.

In eastern Baghdad, in the Shiite al-Baladiyat neighborhood, a roadside bomb exploded Tuesday afternoon, killing one civilian and wounding five others, the official said.

Earlier, a parked car exploded near a busy outdoor market in the western al-Jihad neighborhood, killing at least five people and wounding 11 others, the Interior Ministry official said.

No other details were available about the blast.

Two roadside bombs exploded in central Baghdad's al-Nahdha commercial area, wounding seven people, the official said.

The first blast hurt four civilians, while the second wounded three, the official said.

Also Tuesday, the Iraqi army and police discovered 20 decomposed bodies in the basement of an abandoned house in Tal Afar, a town about 43 miles (70 kilometers) west of Mosul.

There was no indication of how the victims -- who could not immediately be identified -- were killed, the official said.

Authorities discovered the bodies after receiving tips from local residents.

CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report.

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DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- Arizona Sen. John McCain, whose White House aspirations went into a nose dive last summer, clinched the Republican Party's presidential nomination Tuesday night with a sweep of GOP contests in four states.

"I am very, very grateful and pleased to note that tonight, my friends, we have won enough delegates to claim with confidence, humility and a great sense of responsibility, that I will be the Republican nominee for president of the United States," McCain told supporters in Texas.

CNN estimates that McCain has amassed 1,195 delegates to the GOP's September convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, four more than the 1,191 needed to claim the party's nomination.

"Now, we begin the most important part of our campaign: to make a respectful, determined and convincing case to the American people that our campaign and my election as president, given the alternative presented by our friends in the other party, is in the best interest in the country that we love," McCain said.

"The big battle's to come," he said. "I do not underestimate the significance nor the size of the challenge."  Watch McCain address supporters after sweeping Tuesday's contests Â»

McCain's last leading rival, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, bowed out of the race after his projected losses in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont and urged his supporters to back the Arizona senator in November.

"It's now important that we turn our attention not to what could have been or what we wanted to have been but now what must be, and that is a united party," Huckabee said.  Watch as Huckabee ends his presidential bid Â»

Claiming the title of presumptive nominee will give  McCain a head start on the general election campaign while Democratic contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are still locked in a battle for their party's title, said Alex Castellanos, a GOP strategist and CNN contributor.  Allocate delegates yourself and see how the numbers add up Â»

"Tomorrow, he can get started," Castellanos said. "He'll have the [Republican National Committee] behind him. He'll have a broad base of financial support. It's a big step. Meanwhile, it looks like the Democrats are engaged in the land war across Russia, so he's got a big advantage now."

Both Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, and Obama, the first-term senator from Illinois, called McCain on Tuesday night, campaign officials said. Obama told McCain he looks forward to running against him in the fall, campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said.

McCain is slated to go to the White House on Wednesday to receive the endorsement of President Bush, according to two Republican sources.

The Arizona senator's campaign -- his second run for the White House -- was largely written off last summer amid outspoken opposition from the party's conservative base, a major staff shakeup and disappointing fundraising. But the former Navy pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war rebounded with wins in January's primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina, the state where his first presidential bid foundered.

"There were times, obviously, when my political campaign was not viewed as the most viable in America, as you probably know," he told reporters in San Antonio earlier Tuesday. "In fact, I was reminded of the words of Chairman Mao, who said it's always darkest before it's totally black."

McCain's fortunes also rebounded as U.S. commanders in Iraq credited the 2007 launch of a campaign to pacify Baghdad and its surrounding provinces with a sharp decline in American and Iraqi casualties. The senator had been one of the most outspoken advocates of the shift and has blasted his potential Democratic rivals for calling for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from the widely unpopular war.

"This is a man with a lot of trials in his life," said former Education Secretary William Bennett, a CNN contributor. "He's had a lot of downs; he's been up, and this is a big up."

McCain has been turning his fire on the Democrats, for whom Tuesday's races in Ohio and Texas are seen as pivotal.  See scenes from Tuesday's voting Â»

But Democrats have been pounding McCain over his January comment that he would be satisfied if U.S. troops remained in Iraq for 100 years, as long as the insurgency there died down. And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has attacked his reputation as a reformer over the past week, accusing McCain of trying to evade federal spending limits by opting out of public financing after using the promise of federal funds to obtain a bank loan and automatic ballot access for his primary campaign.

Dean told CNN on Tuesday that McCain "really is the focus of what we're doing now, in terms of his ethics problems and his problems with the war and his problems with the huge deficits that they've run up on the Republican side."

In 2000, McCain upset then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary by touting "straight talk" and his record as a Republican maverick. Bush came back in South Carolina amid a divisive and bitter campaign that left McCain denouncing leaders of the party's religious conservative wing as "agents of intolerance," and Bush went on to win the presidency.

Since then, McCain has enraged conservative leaders by opposing Bush's signature tax cuts, co-sponsoring the campaign finance reform law that now bears his name and supporting a controversial White House-backed plan to offer a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But their support was spread among a fractured GOP field, and their main standard-bearer, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, quit the race after a disappointing showing in February's Super Tuesday primaries.

Exit polls in Texas and Ohio found that about three-quarters of Republicans would be satisfied with McCain as their nominee, however. Those surveys found that the economy was the top issue for GOP voters in both states -- and by a wide margin in Ohio, which has seen a sharp decline in manufacturing jobs in the past decade.

Although national security issues are a strong suit for McCain, Castellanos said he might need some help if a weakening economy is the central issue in November.

"It's never been Sen. McCain's strength," Castellanos said. He said McCain would need to make the case that "I'm going to grow this economy; Barack or Hillary, they're going to grow government."

McCain had amassed 1,047 delegates before Tuesday, according to CNN estimates. At stake in Tuesday's contests were 256 delegates, allocated on a winner-take-all basis by statewide or congressional district results. E-mail to a friend

CNN correspondent Dana Bash and political editor Mark Preston contributed to this report.

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text: words

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text: Chairman

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text: said

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text: 's

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text: decline

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text: potential

text: Democratic

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text: for

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text: withdrawal

text: of

text: U.S.

text: combat

text: troops

text: from

text: the

text: widely

text: unpopular

text: war

text: This

text: is

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text: man

text: with

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: trials

text: in

text: his

text: life

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text: Education

text: Secretary

text: William

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text: CNN

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text: and

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text: is

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text: has

text: been

text: turning

text: his

text: fire

text: on

text: the

text: Democrats

text: for

text: whom

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: races

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text: Texas

text: are

text: seen

text: as

text: pivotal

text: See

text: scenes

text: from

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: voting

text: Â

text: But

text: Democrats

text: have

text: been

text: pounding

text: McCain

text: over

text: his

text: January

text: comment

text: that

text: he

text: would

text: be

text: satisfied

text: if

text: U.S.

text: troops

text: remained

text: in

text: Iraq

text: for

text: years

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text: long

text: as

text: the

text: insurgency

text: there

text: died

text: down

text: And

text: Democratic

text: National

text: Committee

text: Chairman

text: Howard

text: Dean

text: has

text: attacked

text: his

text: reputation

text: as

text: a

text: reformer

text: over

text: the

text: past

text: week

text: accusing

text: McCain

text: of

text: trying

text: to

text: evade

text: federal

text: spending

text: limits

text: by

text: opting

text: out

text: of

text: public

text: financing

text: after

text: using

text: the

text: promise

text: of

text: federal

text: funds

text: to

text: obtain

text: a

text: bank

text: loan

text: and

text: automatic

text: ballot

text: access

text: for

text: his

text: primary

text: campaign

text: Dean

text: told

text: CNN

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: that

text: McCain

text: really

text: is

text: the

text: focus

text: of

text: what

text: we

text: 're

text: doing

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text: of

text: his

text: ethics

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text: his

text: problems

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text: the

text: war

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text: his

text: problems

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text: huge

text: deficits

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text: they

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text: up

text: on

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text: Republican

text: side

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text: upset

text: then

text: Texas

text: Gov.

text: George

text: W.

text: Bush

text: in

text: the

text: New

text: Hampshire

text: primary

text: by

text: touting

text: straight

text: talk

text: and

text: his

text: record

text: as

text: a

text: Republican

text: maverick

text: Bush

text: came

text: back

text: in

text: South

text: Carolina

text: amid

text: a

text: divisive

text: and

text: bitter

text: campaign

text: that

text: left

text: McCain

text: denouncing

text: leaders

text: of

text: the

text: party

text: 's

text: religious

text: conservative

text: wing

text: as

text: agents

text: of

text: intolerance

text: and

text: Bush

text: went

text: on

text: to

text: win

text: the

text: presidency

text: Since

text: then

text: McCain

text: has

text: enraged

text: conservative

text: leaders

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text: opposing

text: Bush

text: 's

text: signature

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text: cuts

text: co

text: sponsoring

text: the

text: campaign

text: finance

text: reform

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text: his

text: name

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text: controversial

text: White

text: House

text: backed

text: plan

text: to

text: offer

text: a

text: path

text: to

text: citizenship

text: for

text: illegal

text: immigrants

text: But

text: their

text: support

text: was

text: spread

text: among

text: a

text: fractured

text: GOP

text: field

text: and

text: their

text: main

text: standard

text: bearer

text: former

text: Massachusetts

text: Gov.

text: Mitt

text: Romney

text: quit

text: the

text: race

text: after

text: a

text: disappointing

text: showing

text: in

text: February

text: 's

text: Super

text: Tuesday

text: primaries

text: Exit

text: polls

text: in

text: Texas

text: and

text: Ohio

text: found

text: that

text: about

text: three

text: quarters

text: of

text: Republicans

text: would

text: be

text: satisfied

text: with

text: McCain

text: as

text: their

text: nominee

text: however

text: Those

text: surveys

text: found

text: that

text: the

text: economy

text: was

text: the

text: top

text: issue

text: for

text: GOP

text: voters

text: in

text: both

text: states

text: and

text: by

text: a

text: wide

text: margin

text: in

text: Ohio

text: which

text: has

text: seen

text: a

text: sharp

text: decline

text: in

text: manufacturing

text: jobs

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: decade

text: Although

text: national

text: security

text: issues

text: are

text: a

text: strong

text: suit

text: for

text: McCain

text: Castellanos

text: said

text: he

text: might

text: need

text: some

text: help

text: if

text: a

text: weakening

text: economy

text: is

text: the

text: central

text: issue

text: in

text: November

text: It

text: 's

text: never

text: been

text: Sen.

text: McCain

text: 's

text: strength

text: Castellanos

text: said

text: He

text: said

text: McCain

text: would

text: need

text: to

text: make

text: the

text: case

text: that

text: I

text: 'm

text: going

text: to

text: grow

text: this

text: economy

text: Barack

text: or

text: Hillary

text: they

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: grow

text: government

text: McCain

text: had

text: amassed

text: delegates

text: before

text: Tuesday

text: according

text: to

text: CNN

text: estimates

text: At

text: stake

text: in

text: Tuesday

text: 's

text: contests

text: were

text: delegates

text: allocated

text: on

text: a

text: winner

text: take

text: all

text: basis

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text: statewide

text: or

text: congressional

text: district

text: results

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: correspondent

text: Dana

text: Bash

text: and

text: political

text: editor

text: Mark

text: Preston

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What number of delegates did McCain amass?

answer: 1,195

question: Who had amassed 1,047 delegates before Tuesday?

answer: McCain

text: McCain

question: Who withdraws from race for GOP nomination?

answer: Mike Huckabee,

text: Mike Huckabee,

question: Who withdrew from the race for GOP nomination?

answer: Mike Huckabee,

text: Mike Huckabee,

question: Whose campagin was largely written off last summer?

answer: Arizona Sen. John McCain,

text: Arizona Sen. John McCain,

question: What does CNN project?

answer: projected losses in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island

text: projected losses in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island

question: Who projects McCain wins Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont?

answer: CNN

text: CNN

question: Who withdrew from the race?

answer: Mike Huckabee,

text: Mike Huckabee,


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(CNN) -- An Ohio man who was suspended as the drum major of a band for giving President Obama a nod during last week's inaugural parade is calling it quits.

John Coleman quit his band after it suspended him for nodding to President Obama last week.

John Coleman resigned from the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial Pipes & Drums a week after the parade in Washington. Publicity about his suspension had gotten to be too much, he told CNN affiliate WEWS.

"It's come to a point where I don't want embarrassment anymore between the pipe band and myself," Coleman, who is a firefighter, told WEWS on Tuesday.

Coleman was seen during the nationally televised January 20 parade nodding toward the new president while marching with the band. A few steps later, he appeared to wave briefly.

He told WEWS that as the band was marching past the grandstand where Obama was sitting, he made eye contact with the president.

"Contact was made with our eyes both together and he smiled and waved at the band," he told the station. "And just as a gesture, I nodded my head. I gave him a slight wave and went on."  Watch parade and explanation Â»

Representatives from the group did not return calls from CNN. But bandleader Mike Engle told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that Coleman was suspended because he ignored military protocol.

"We had gone over and over time and again with everyone in the band that this was a military parade," Engle told the newspaper. "Protocol and proper decorum had to be followed at all times. Unfortunately, John chose to ignore that."

Coleman had been suspended from the band for six months.

In a written statement, band manager Ken Rybka said Coleman's resignation from the group "comes as a shock and surprise."

The band has been inundated with phone calls, e-mails and messages on its Internet pages -- almost all of them critical -- since the story first broke on Monday, Rybka said. iReport.com: 'Pretty cool thing that he acknowledged the president'

"It is unfortunate that an internal band issue has raised so much discussion and ire from the general public," Rybka said in the statement. "It has disheartened me more than you can imagine."

Rybka said that he will be taking a leave of absence from the band because of the furor.

"The 'afterglow' of participating in the inaugural parade is gone," he said.

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question: What did John Coleman play in the band?

answer: drum

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question: What major was Coleman?

answer: drum

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question: Who nodded at President Obama?

answer: John Coleman

text: John Coleman

question: When did he march?

answer: last week's inaugural parade

text: last week's inaugural parade

question: Who cites publicity?

answer: John Coleman

text: John Coleman

question: What is military protocol?

answer: proper decorum

text: proper decorum

question: Who did Ohio man nod at?

answer: President Obama

text: President Obama

question: What publicity was there?

answer: about his suspension

text: about his suspension