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Obama calls for end of transportation showdown

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to end a showdown that threatens to cut off federal highway and transit aid to states just as the spring construction season starts....
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Obama calls for end of transportation showdown

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to end a showdown that threatens to cut off federal highway and transit aid to states just as the spring construction season starts....
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Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- I thought my son would be much older before I had to tell him about the Black Male Code. He's only 12, still sleeping with stuffed animals, still afraid of the dark. But after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, I needed to explain to my child that soon people might be afraid of him....
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Parishioners comfort relatives of WV fire victims

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- As Talma Isabell coped with the crushing heartache of losing her daughter and five grandchildren in a house fire that killed nine people in all, several dozen people surrounded the woman and her family at church Sunday with their arms raised and their heads bowed in prayer....
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Lawmakers, US agency favor Hatch Act changes

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jon Greiner's election to the Utah Senate caused his firing as Ogden police chief. Philadelphia transit cop Matthew Arlen was barred from a local school board race in Pennsylvania. And New York state port official Terrence Hurley was knocked out of a county race....
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How health care case will unfold before the court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Monday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, derisively labeled "Obamacare" by its opponents. A look at how the case will unfold before the court in question-and-answer form:...
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Obama calls for end of transportation showdown

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to end a showdown that threatens to cut off federal highway and transit aid to states just as the spring construction season starts....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama calls for end of transportation showdown

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama wants Congress to end a showdown that threatens to cut off federal highway and transit aid to states just as the spring construction season starts....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

How the case will unfold before the court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on Monday over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, derisively labeled "Obamacare" by its opponents. A look at how the case will unfold before the court in question-and-answer form:...
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Decibel alert: Partisans dial up health care noise

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's national shouting match over health care will only get louder next week as the Supreme Court weighs the fate of President Barack Obama's overhaul....
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Decibel alert: Partisans dial up health care noise

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's national shouting match over health care will only get louder next week as the Supreme Court weighs the fate of President Barack Obama's overhaul....
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Slain teen's friends say he never picked a fight

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
MIAMI (AP) -- Wearing a hoodie. Listening to music and talking on his cellphone. Picking up Skittles for his soon-to-be stepbrother. Friends say that's how they would have imagined 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Sunday afternoon....
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Army sergeant charged in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....
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Army sergeant charged in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....
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Army sergeant charged in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Army sergeant charged in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....
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At least 2 dead in 2 small plane crashes in Colo.

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- A pilot whose plane crashed - possibly after a midair collision with another aircraft - was conscious when people ripped off the door of her Cessna 180 to pull her to safety, but authorities said two people in the other plane were killed....
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At least 2 dead in 2 small plane crashes in Colo.

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- A pilot whose plane crashed - possibly after a midair collision with another aircraft - was conscious when people ripped off the door of her Cessna 180 to pull her to safety, but authorities said two people in the other plane were killed....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

At least 2 dead in 2 small plane crashes in Colo.

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 04:57
LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) -- A pilot whose plane crashed - possibly after a midair collision with another aircraft - was conscious when people ripped off the door of her Cessna 180 to pull her to safety, but authorities said two people in the other plane were killed....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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