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Postal plane crashes
Crews searched in rough seas on Monday for the pilot of a twin-engine plane carrying US mail that crashed into the ocean. Debris from the Beechcraft 1900, with only the pilot aboard, was spotted in the water by the crew of a boat from Coast Guard Station Kauai in Hawaii nearly four hours after the plane was last seen on radar, the Coast Guard said. The cause of the crash was being investigated. Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said no distress call was received before the crash. The plane, carrying about 1,900kg of mail. Some of the mail was recovered and will be delivered, Postal Service spokesman Duke Gonzales said.
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Deportations to rise
The US expects to deport more than 200,000 immigrants this year who are serving time in prisons and jails across the country, the top US immigration enforcement official said. The move to speed the deportation of foreign-born criminals aims to help federal and state prisons reduce the costs of housing immigrants, Julie Myers, head of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, told the New York Times. Illegal immigration has emerged as one of the most passionate topics in the campaign for the US presidential election. Last year the ICE sent 276,912 immigrants to their home countries, including many who had never been arrested for crimes, but were deported for civil immigration violations, the newspaper reported.
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Clinton prefers dancing
Asked to choose what reality TV program she would prefer to compete on, Hillary Rodham Clinton chose the popular Dancing With the Stars. "In my dreams I would be on America's Next Top Model but in reality I would have to choose my limited talents and of them dancing is better than singing," Clinton said on Monday during a taping of The Tyra Banks Show. "You do not want me to sing." She also suggested a nationwide contest for a title for her husband, former president Bill Clinton, should she win the nomination and be elected the nation's first female president. "Here are some of the things that have been suggested, like `First Mate,'" Hillary Clinton said. "His Scottish friends say `First Laddy,' but we need ideas. I'll just keep calling him Bill.
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