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Credit scores: If they're high enough, you can get a good credit card. Question No. 2 in this reader mailbag.

Senate passes college tuition financial aid bill as college tuition continues to rise. Even with financial aid, are rising costs the only factor pushing tuition beyond some students' reach?

AP - Yonhap news agency says South Korea has ended maritime artillery drills from a front-line island attacked last month by North Korea.

AP - Belarus' election authority says incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko has won another term with nearly 80 percent of vote.

AP - A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves.