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Attempts to revive language spoken in Jesus' time

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
JISH, Israel (AP) -- Two villages in the Holy Land's tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East....

Tropical Storm Beryl brings wind, rain to Florida

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
Tropical Storm Beryl moved across northeastern Florida early Monday, bringing drenching rains, driving winds and the threat of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coast, forecasters said....
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Iran parliament re-elects conservative as speaker

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's newly-elected parliament has voted to reinstate a conservative critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as temporary speaker....

Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday....
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Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday....
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Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday....
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Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday....
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Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday....
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Father of slain Tiananmen protester kills himself

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
BEIJING (AP) -- The father of a man killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has hanged himself in protest after two decades of failed attempts to seek government redress, a support group said Monday....

2 Tibetans set selves on fire outside Lhasa temple

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
BEIJING (AP) -- Two men engulfed themselves in towering flames outside a temple that is a popular tourist site in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese rule has reached the tightly guarded Tibetan capital....

Concert on National Mall shut down by thunder

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Memorial Day Concert has been canceled due to a line of thunderstorms that moved into the District of Columbia on Sunday night....
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Quebec students, government to resume negotiations

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
MONTREAL (AP) -- Quebec students and the provincial government return to the bargaining table on Monday in a high-stakes attempt to put an end to a months-long dispute over tuition hikes that has led to clashes with police and mass arrests....

3 rescued from plane crash site in remote Idaho

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho National Guard rescuers plucked a California fireman, his wife and their adult daughter from a snow-covered mountain-side Sunday afternoon, more than 15 hours after the trio survived a nighttime plane crash onto a steep, forested slope in a remote part of the state....
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McCain: Don't count on Russia to force out Assad

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. can't count on Russia - a major arms supplier to Syria - to force President Bashar Assad from power, Sen. John McCain said Sunday, blaming President Barack Obama for embracing a "feckless" foreign policy and punting tough decisions until after the fall election....
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Crowds gather for Golden Gate Bridge celebration

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Crowds gathered along San Francisco's waterfront Sunday, while San Francisco Bay was crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge....
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Labor board member accused of leaks resigns

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned, the agency announced Sunday....
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Tropical Storm Beryl nears southeastern US coast

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
Tropical Storm Beryl was wrecking some Memorial Day weekend plans on Sunday, causing shoreline campers to pack up and head inland and leading to the cancellation of some events as the storm approached the southeastern U.S....
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Long road for NYC prosecutors in Etan Patz case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
NEW YORK (AP) -- For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases....
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Long road for NYC prosecutors in Etan Patz case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
NEW YORK (AP) -- For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases....
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Long road for NYC prosecutors in Etan Patz case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 10:58
NEW YORK (AP) -- For prosecutors, the work is just beginning after the astonishing arrest last week of a man who police say confessed to strangling a 6-year-old New York City boy 33 years ago in one of the nation's most bewildering missing children's cases....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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