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Google's anticipated new cloud music service is not quite what the company had hoped to launch.

New Republican legislators in many states have made abortion a top priority. A new South Dakota law requires an unprecedented 72-hour waiting period before an abortion — and several states are debating bills to ban abortion at 20 weeks. But opponents are challenging the laws in court, calling them unconstitutional.

Consumers in nine states expect to receive millions in rebates from their health insurers on this year's premiums because insurers did not hit a spending target for medical care. But consumer advocates say most insurers should be able to meet the spending rule.

Water, water everywhere — and there's just too much of the wet stuff. As a big surge of water moves down the Mississippi River, city leaders in Memphis and points south prepare for more flooding.

In his El Paso, Tex. speech Tuesday, the president had to explain why legalizing millions of illegal immigrants wouldn't hurt Americans economically. He argued that illegal immigrants force down U.S. wages since workers lacking legal status can be more readily exploited by unethical employers.

The National Jukebox spins more than 10,000 recordings made between 1901 and 1925.

The U.S. Mexico border has become a militarized zone — with fences, surveillance equipment and thousands of police and military personnel on both sides. In his remarks today, President Obama said his administration has answered critics' concerns about border security. But people who live in the region aren't so sure.

The hearing in Richmond, Va., marked the first time any of the dozens of lawsuits filed against last year's law have reached the appellate level, and brings the measure a step closer to what most predict will be a legal showdown that will only end at the Supreme Court sometime in 2012.

Cyberattacks, assassinations and defections are among the black operations that have replaced, at least for now, all talk of launching military attacks on Iran's suspect nuclear facilities. And covert operations are increasingly being viewed as the most effective approach, analysts say.