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9/11 families prepare for Guantanamo arraignment

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
NEW YORK (AP) -- It has been a year of milestones for the families of those killed on Sept. 11, with the death of Osama Bin Laden followed by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Now another painful chapter is set to begin: the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11....
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McNamee admits his Clemens story changed over time

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- During another seven grueling hours of cross-examination that frustrated all sides, Roger Clemens' accuser explained the evidence he kept in a beer can - and why his story about it has changed....
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Anti-abortion group says it has patient records

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- An anti-abortion group says it has the patient records of dozens of women and girls who sought treatment at a Kansas City, Kan., abortion clinic last month - a claim the clinic's attorney says is meant to scare off potential patients and would suggest a crime was committed....
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Military commanders warned to get troops in line

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military leaders are telling commanders to get their troops in line and refrain from misconduct such as urinating on enemy corpses, in a sharp response to the tasteless photos and other disturbing examples of bad behavior that have enraged Afghans and complicated war-fighting....
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Wife of former Minn. Viking guilty in hit-and-run

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The wife of a former Minnesota Viking was convicted Thursday of two felonies in a hit-and-run that killed a man, as jurors brushed aside her defense that she never saw him and thought she had hit a construction barrel or pothole....
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US remains opposed to military action in Syria

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shocking as it was, the massacre of more than 100 Syrian villagers is unlikely to galvanize a military assault like last year's campaign in Libya to oust Moammar Gadhafi. The killings, however, did provoke the strongest international condemnation the United States and other nations could muster....
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Federal lawmaker: DEA debacle suggests breakdown

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The case of a detained college student who was forgotten in a holding cell for more than four days suggests a breakdown in procedure and oversight within the Drug Enforcement Administration, a California federal lawmaker said Thursday....
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US uses bin Laden letters to degrade al-Qaida

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Letters from Osama bin Laden's last hideaway, released by U.S. officials intent on discrediting his terror organization, portray a network weak, inept and under siege - and its leader seemingly near wit's end about the passing of his global jihad's glory days....
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Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....
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Police believe Neo-Nazi killed 4, himself in Ariz.

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) -- Police said Thursday that they believe a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups shot four people and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home....
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Ex-Edwards aide had awkward run-in with mistress

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Another former close aide to John Edwards testified Thursday about bungled efforts to keep the former presidential candidate's affair hidden from staff members, including an awkward encounter when his mistress showed up at a hotel weeks after her work filming Mr. Edwards had ended.

For months ...

Prosecutors opt for hazing charges in FAMU case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There was no single blow, stomp or strike to Robert Champion's bruised and battered body that killed him as he was pummeled by fellow Florida A&M University marching band members during a hazing ritual aboard a charter bus last fall....
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Prosecutors opt for hazing charges in FAMU case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There was no single blow, stomp or strike to Robert Champion's bruised and battered body that killed him as he was pummeled by fellow Florida A&M University marching band members during a hazing ritual aboard a charter bus last fall....
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White House is silent on fate of Chinese activist

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....
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White House is silent on fate of Chinese activist

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....
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Ex-Edwards aide had awkward run-in with mistress

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Another former close aide to John Edwards testified Thursday about bungled efforts to keep the former presidential candidate's affair hidden from staff members, including an awkward encounter when she showed up at a hotel weeks after her work filming Edwards had ended....
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Amateur sleuth helps stop National Archives thefts

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When J. David Goldin saw the recorded interview of baseball great Babe Ruth for sale on eBay he knew something was wrong. There was only one original record of that 1937 interview of Ruth on a hunting trip, and Goldin had donated it to a government archive more than 30 years ago. Now someone was auctioning it off, the winning bid just $34.75....
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5 indicted in alleged plot to bomb Ohio bridge

CLEVELAND (AP) — Five men suspected of plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge were indicted Thursday on three counts each, including a new charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction to destroy property in interstate commerce.

The indictment was announced by U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach, who said ...

Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....
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7 of those charged in FAMU hazing turn selves in

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 01:03
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Seven people charged with felony hazing in the death of a Florida A&M University marching band drum major have turned themselves in to authorities....
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