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Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
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Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
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Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday....
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House GOP budget plan heats up as campaign issue

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top Democrats over its political fallout and economic consequences....
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House GOP budget plan heats up as campaign issue

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top Democrats over its political fallout and economic consequences....
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AP Enterprise: Vegas rail: a gamble or good thing?

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- On a dusty, rock-strewn expanse at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a company linked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to build a bullet train that would rocket tourists from the middle of nowhere to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas....
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Obama squeezes N. Korea to change, China to help

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Trying to muscle North Korea toward peace over provocation, President Barack Obama is broadening his squeeze play from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning North Korea that it is headed toward a crippling "dead end" of isolation....
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Obama squeezes N. Korea to change, China to help

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Trying to muscle North Korea toward peace over provocation, President Barack Obama is broadening his squeeze play from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning North Korea that it is headed toward a crippling "dead end" of isolation....
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Key question in Penn State case: Who is Victim 2?

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The case is highly emotional, with accusations delving deep back in time and numerous alleged victims. But for all its breadth, one chapter in the Penn State abuse saga outpaces the others: the alleged sexual assault in a team shower by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky of a boy known only as Victim 2....
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Divided Congress settles for below-the-radar bills

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is finding it hard to do what used to be easy....
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Divided Congress settles for below-the-radar bills

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is finding it hard to do what used to be easy....
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Divided Congress settles for below-the-radar bills

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is finding it hard to do what used to be easy....
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'Hunger Games' battles to $155M opening weekend

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "The Hunger Games" has filled fan appetites with a $155 million opening weekend that puts it near the top of the domestic record book....
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WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Press kept out in S. Korea

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- This is South Korea, right? The democracy with a free press and a close alliance with the United States?...
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Syria is top item as US, Turkish leaders confer

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- President Barack Obama said he and Turkey's prime minister are looking for ways to bring about needed change in Syria as that nation's leadership continues a bloody crackdown on civilians....
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Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday....
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Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday....
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Attorneys in Trayvon Martin case make arguments

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
MIAMI (AP) -- Attorneys for the family of Trayvon Martin and the Florida neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot the unarmed teen joined the national chorus of voices calling Saturday for justice in the case....
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Attorneys in Trayvon Martin case make arguments

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
MIAMI (AP) -- Attorneys for the family of Trayvon Martin and the Florida neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot the unarmed teen joined the national chorus of voices calling Saturday for justice in the case....
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Attorneys in Trayvon Martin case make arguments

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 12:00
MIAMI (AP) -- Attorneys for the family of Trayvon Martin and the Florida neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot the unarmed teen joined the national chorus of voices calling Saturday for justice in the case....
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