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Paul wins majority of delegates from Maine GOP

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- With Mitt Romney's GOP presidential nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters took control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory....
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Paul wins majority of delegates from Maine GOP

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- With Mitt Romney's GOP presidential nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters took control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory....
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Long fight predicted in Guantanamo Sept. 11 case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The U.S. has finally started the prosecution of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, but the trial won't be starting anytime soon, and both sides said Sunday that the case could continue for years....
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US hikers who were held in Iran marry in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two Americans who were detained and accused of spying after hiking near the Iraq-Iran border three years ago have been married in Northern California, a family friend said Sunday....
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US hikers who were held in Iran marry in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two Americans who were detained and accused of spying after hiking near the Iraq-Iran border three years ago have been married in Northern California, a family friend said Sunday....
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Obama calls new French President-elect Hollande

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has called France's new president-elect to congratulate him on winning Sunday's election....
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Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage....
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Wife Skyping with soldier saw bullet hole in wall

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
DALLAS (AP) -- An Army nurse showed no alarm or discomfort before suddenly collapsing during a Skype video chat with his wife, who saw a bullet hole in a closet behind him, his family said Sunday....
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American Scene: Man's death at Derby track called a homicide

LOUISVILLE — The discovery of a man's body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there appears to be no connection to the race track or the Kentucky Derby, police said.

"At this point we don't have anything pointing to the fact ...

What killed Lenin? Poison called possibility

BALTIMORE — Stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, contradicting a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the Soviet Union's founder, a UCLA neurologist said.

Dr. Harry Vinters and Russian historian Lev Lurie reviewed Lenin's records Friday for an annual ...

North Carolina voting on gay marriage

Opponents of North Carolina's marriage amendment are aiming to pull out a surprise victory Tuesday, while supporters are fighting to ensure that their state joins the rest of the South in saying that only marriages between one man and one woman are legally valid.

Recent polls indicate that the constitutional ...

Logging opponents chop down trees to battle beetles

SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. | Joe Shark's American Indian heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation where he grows apples and gooseberries, but a threat from an enemy no larger than a fingernail impelled him to grab a saw and join the loggers.

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WILLIAMS: Mr. Hope and Change

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Thales of Miletus, considered one of the first philosophers in history, said, perhaps jokingly, that hope is the most abundant thing in the world, because even when you have absolutely nothing, hey, at least you still have hope.

We're not seeing a whole lot of hope coming out of ...

'Avengers' smashes record: $200.3 million debut

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hulk, smash....
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Living alone with Alzheimer's tough choice for all

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elaine Vlieger is making some concessions to Alzheimer's. She's cut back on her driving, frozen dinners replace once elaborate cooking, and a son monitors her finances. But the Colorado woman lives alone and isn't ready to give up her house or her independence....
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Living alone with Alzheimer's tough choice for all

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Elaine Vlieger is making some concessions to Alzheimer's. She's cut back on her driving, frozen dinners replace once elaborate cooking, and a son monitors her finances. But the Colorado woman lives alone and isn't ready to give up her house or her independence....
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Man's death at Ky. Derby track called a homicide

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The discovery of a man's body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there appears to be no connection to the race track or the Kentucky Derby, police said....
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War against SD tree bugs enlists unlikely fighters

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. (AP) -- Joe Shark's Native American heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation where he grows apples and gooseberries, but a threat from an enemy no larger than a fingernail impelled him to grab a saw and join the loggers....
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War against SD tree bugs enlists unlikely fighters

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 11:53
SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. (AP) -- Joe Shark's Native American heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation where he grows apples and gooseberries, but a threat from an enemy no larger than a fingernail impelled him to grab a saw and join the loggers....
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