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Many willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect slack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Many willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect slack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Many willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect slack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....
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New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
DENVER (AP) -- Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she'd never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously left her homebound....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
DETROIT (AP) -- For nearly two decades, Carol Bart's untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint, had spent time in prison by coincidence, but not for sexually assaulting Bart....
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Marriage education no sure solution

Marriage education improves relationships and lowers levels of marital distress, but doesn't deter divorce, at least in the short-term, says a new federally funded study.

The findings offer new evidence that teaching relationship skills to low-income married couples with children - especially when they are backed up by a competent ...

Demonstrators back, but are uncertain of what to Occupy next

NEW YORK — A day after police broke up a rally at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and arrested dozens, Occupy Wall Street protesters said Sunday that their movement would pick up momentum with the spring.

Activists listed issues including student debt, the environment and the November elections as priorities going forward. ...

It's been a beastly winter in Alaska, but some root for record

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A near-record snowfall this winter has buried Anchorage neighborhoods, turning streets into snow-walled canyons and even collapsing some roofs.

But some residents are hoping for more, at least another 3.3 inches. Then they could say they made it through the winter when the nearly 60-year record of ...

American Scene: Ex-Crystal Cathedral pastor has launched new ministry

ORANGE, Calif. — A Crystal Cathedral splinter church was launched Sunday in a rented movie theater in Orange County, with the breakaway pastor urging the congregation not to speak ill of its former house of worship.

Sheila Schuller Coleman, who abruptly announced she was forming the Hope Center of Christ ...

4 GOP-appointed justices control health law's fate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Many willing to cut Afghan shooting suspect slack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
He is accused of the kind of crime that makes people shiver, the killing of families in their own homes under cover of night, the butchery of defenseless children. Under normal circumstances, Americans would dismiss such an act as worthy of only one response: swift and merciless punishment....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

NYC activists differ on Occupy's direction

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- A day after police broke up a rally at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and arrested dozens, Occupy Wall Street protesters said Sunday that their movement for economic justice would pick up momentum with the spring....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
DENVER (AP) -- Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot. The suburban Denver woman says she'd never get behind the wheel right after smoking, but she does use medical marijuana twice a day to ease tremors caused by multiple sclerosis that previously left her homebound....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Romney wins Puerto Rico, GOP campaign continues

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Santorum beats Romney in Louisiana

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum won the Louisiana Republican presidential primary Saturday, beating front-runner Mitt Romney in yet another conservative Southern state....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

4 GOP-appointed justices control health law's fate

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-17 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Here's a thought that can't comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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