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Romney net worth remains near $250 million

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new financial report from GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney shows that his personal fortune remains near $250 million, about the same as last year even after a mass sell-off of stocks from his vast investment portfolio....

Zimmerman back to jail; judge says he lied

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's shooter must return to jail, a judge ordered Friday in a strongly worded ruling that said George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain bond in a case that hinges on jurors believing his account of what happened the night the teen was killed....
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Warren discusses response to heritage questions

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Friday that she didn't reveal until this week that she told past employers about her Native American ancestry because she needed more time to recall actions and events of years ago....

Danger sign for US economy: Job growth disappoints

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American economy is in trouble again....

Dismal jobs report sends Dow into 275-point dive

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
Alarmed by an ominously weak U.S. jobs report, investors ran for safety Friday from new worries about a global slowdown, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest loss since November....
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Dismal jobs report sends Dow into 275-point dive

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
Alarmed by an ominously weak U.S. jobs report, investors ran for safety Friday from new worries about a global slowdown, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its biggest loss since November....
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'Anything goes' now in campaign financing?

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is it "anything goes" now in America's campaign finance system?...

'Anything goes' now in campaign financing?

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is it "anything goes" now in America's campaign finance system?...

'Anything goes' now in campaign financing?

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is it "anything goes" now in America's campaign finance system?...

Target sells shirts to benefit equality advocates

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Target Corp. is taking some heat for selling T-shirts to benefit a group that favors gay marriage....

Md. man accused of cannibalism ranted on Facebook

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
JOPPATOWNE, Md. (AP) -- The college student suspected of killing and eating parts of a man staying at his home ranted months ago about "mass human sacrifices" on Facebook, one of several details that emerged Friday in the second gruesome case of alleged cannibalism in the U.S. in a week....
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Edwards advised to keep low profile before 2nd act

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Now that he has survived his campaign corruption trial, John Edwards may face an even tougher fight to regain the public's respect....

Some courts are ruling `gay' is not slanderous

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- One by one, courts around the country are deciding it's no longer slander to falsely call someone gay - a measure of how attitudes are changing in the era of same-sex marriage and gays in uniform....
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Help for job market unlikely to come from Congress

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot weaker....
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Help for job market unlikely to come from Congress

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy suddenly looks a lot weaker....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

French president says Syria's Assad has to go

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
PARIS (AP) -- France's president said Friday that only the departure of Bashar Assad would end the violence in Syria, saying his regime had acted in an "intolerable way."...

Russian FM: Syria conflict becomes 'more alarming'

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia has growing concerns about the conflict in Syria, but it will continue to oppose the outside use of force, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday....

Pope to attend La Scala concert

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
MILAN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI praised the performance of Beethoven's Ninth symphony on Friday evening at Milan's La Scala theater as "a moment of elevation of the soul."...

Appeals court rules against ex-Gitmo prosecutor

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided federal appeals court Friday threw out a lawsuit by the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay against his former boss at the Library of Congress, who fired the ex-prosecutor for publicly criticizing the Obama administration over Guantanamo detainees....
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PepsiCo's Mexico snack subsidiary attacked again

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-13 15:45
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Assailants in western Mexico burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, shortly after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks against the company, police said Friday....
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