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Preliminary results from Haiti's presidential elections show former President Rene Preval with a substantial lead. International election observers sharply criticized Haitian election officials for poor organization, but said the vote generally appeared to be free and fair.

New fines were issued Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission. The fines are aimed toward indecent programming on broadcast television.

Many businesses have relied on high sales volume to make a profit, but higher costs for wholesale goods and dwindling inventory because of supply chain disruptions are forcing them to raise prices.

The nation's emergency rooms are crowded and overwhelmed. A major investigation says hospital ERs, which can barely handle daily 911 calls, are far from ready to handle the mass casualties that a flu epidemic or terrorist strike might bring.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sandy Phillips, whose daughter died in the 2012 movie theater mass shooting in Colorado. She's been supporting shooting survivors in Buffalo, now she heads to Texas.

Boeing's Starliner capsule is to return to Earth after a stay at the Space Station as part of a test mission before it flies astronauts. The parachutes are among the systems engineers are monitoring.

April 25 is Yom Hashoah, an annual remembrance of the Holocaust. It is still used as a touchstone for modern-day genocide. For NPR's Jeffrey Katz, it is more than a day of remembrance

The Black Patriots Foundation is raising money to erect a memorial on the National Mall that will honor the more than 5,000 blacks who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Rhonda Roberson, president of the foundation, tells Ed Gordon about the group's vision for the memorial.

The Senate asks in hearings whether fraud was committed during the dispersal of Federal Emergency Management Agency aid following hurricanes in the South last year.

Hurricane Wilma's impact Monday left Miami struggling to keep order. The city's airport is closed and the mayor says out of 2,600 traffic lights there, just 18 are working.