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Obama: US has offered no 'freebies' to Iran

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....
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A rare tragedy at sea hits SF's sailing community

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors....
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C. Guard ends search for 4 missing yacht racers

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The search for four yacht crew members thrown from their boat during a weekend race off Northern California was indefinitely suspended, with the Coast Guard saying the "window of survivability" had passed....
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Obama: 'Angry' if Secret Service allegations true

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama, speaking for the first time about allegations that Secret Service agents hired prostitutes, said Sunday that "of course I'll be angry" if those accusations are proven true by an investigation....
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Obama: US has offered no 'freebies' to Iran

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Exposing a rift with Israel, President Barack Obama on Sunday insisted that the United States has not "given anything away" in new talks with Iran as he defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions....
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Don't wait for Social Security check in the mail

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Starting next year, the check will no longer be in the mail for millions of people who receive Social Security and other government benefits....
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Women linked by Manson murders form odd friendship

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- On August 9, 1969, two naive 17-year-old girls were launched on a path that led to the unlikeliest of friendships....
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Ticket to Titanic maiden voyage sold at NY auction

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the 1912 launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner, plus items recovered from the wreckage miles underwater....
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American Scene: Auction house sells off Titanic-related memorabilia

NEW YORK — A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner.

On the block Sunday at Bonhams were various items offered to mark the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. The historic ...

Dueling reasons for the falling teen birthrate

The good news that U.S. teen birthrates are continuing to fall has resurrected the debate about how much credit for the trend should go to contraception and how much to abstinence.

The recent declines in teen birthrates can be linked "almost exclusively" to improvements in teens' contraceptive use, the Guttmacher ...

States make headway on abortion restriction

At least 75 bills to restrict abortion passed one state legislative chamber in the first quarter of 2012, the Guttmacher Institute said Friday.

While this wasn't quite the flurry seen in 2011, when a record 127 abortion-restricting bills passed one chamber, it was "still higher than usual for an election ...

Vietnamese man buys U.S. town

HANOI — Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen flew to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford in Wyoming - population 1.

Mr. Nguyen's name was not released when he won the auction for Buford ...

Obama: US hasn't given anything away to Iran

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. hasn't "given away anything" to Iran in the latest round of talks over the Islamic republic's nuclear program....
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Obama: US hasn't given anything away to Iran

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. hasn't "given away anything" to Iran in the latest round of talks over the Islamic republic's nuclear program....
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Obama 'hopeful' about transition in Cuba

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "hopeful" about the prospect of a transition in Cuba and says there may be an opportunity in the coming years for communist-run island to start "loosening up."...
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Obama 'hopeful' about transition in Cuba

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "hopeful" about the prospect of a transition in Cuba and says there may be an opportunity in the coming years for communist-run island to start "loosening up."...
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Women linked by Manson murders form odd friendship

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) -- On August 9, 1969, two naive 17-year-old girls were launched on a path that led to the unlikeliest of friendships....
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Residents digging out after tornadoes hit Midwest

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -- The television was tuned to forecasters' dire warnings of an impending storm when Greg Tomlyanobich heard a short burst from a tornado siren blare after midnight Sunday. Then silence. Then rumbling....
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A rare tragedy at sea hits SF's sailing community

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A century-old tradition, the Full Crew Farallones Race has never been for the faint of heart: Winds averaging 10 to 20 knots and churning 14-foot Pacific Ocean swells are among the rough conditions typically braved by yachts and their crews during the daylong regatta, a spring favorite of skilled sailors....
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3-D release steers 'Titanic' past $2 billion mark

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 02:31
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Cameron has shored up his position as king of the worldwide box office....
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