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Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger....

Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger....

Romney faced leadership test in Big Dig tragedy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was at his New Hampshire vacation home on a summer night in 2006 when 26 tons of concrete ceiling panels in one of Boston's Big Dig highway tunnels collapsed, crushing a car and killing a female passenger....

2 more activists charged related to NATO summit

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors charged two more activists Sunday with crimes tied to the two-day NATO summit, accusing one of saying he wanted to blow up a downtown Chicago bridge and a second with seeking to build pipe bombs....
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Obama: NATO shifting to help peace in Afghanistan

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
CHICAGO (AP) -- The NATO alliance that has fought for a decade in Afghanistan is helping that nation shift toward stability and peace, but there will be "hard days ahead," President Barack Obama said Sunday as alliance leaders insisted the fighting coalition will remain effective despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early....
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Thousands begin NATO protest march through Chicago

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
CHICAGO (AP) -- Thousands of demonstrators upset with the war in Afghanistan, climate change and the erosion of union rights marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday, taking their discontent on a wide range of issues to world leaders assembled for a NATO summit....
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Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't....
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Michelle Obama, NATO spouses visit youth center

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
CHICAGO (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama and the spouses of NATO heads of state dropped by a Chicago youth center where they watched a hip-hop aerobics class for children....
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Palestinian rivals set timetable for unity deal

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah agreed on Sunday on a new timetable for a power-sharing deal that envisions elections in about six months, officials from both sides said....

New 1940 US census records show black undercount

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon....
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Tropical Storm Alberto hovers off Carolina coast

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Tropical Storm Alberto weakened slightly off the South Carolina coast on Sunday, canceling tourist cruises, producing showers along the coast and serving as a reminder that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner....
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Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates:...

Bomb explodes during UN visit in Syria

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, the latest incident in which the unarmed observer mission has nearly been caught up in the country's bloodshed....

Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60....

Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials....

Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans and Democrats are refusing to budge when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt....

Strong quake kills 4 in Italy cheese region

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy (AP) -- A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy Sunday, killing four people, knocking down a clock tower and other centuries-old buildings and causing millions in losses to the region known for making Parmesan cheese....

For gay marriage opponents, moments shape minds

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, supporters and pundits declared it symbolic of a historic shift in American attitudes. But as the attention fades, the fact remains that voters in 31 states have rejected gay marriage and more are lining up to do so....
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2 more activists charged related to NATO summit

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors said Sunday they have charged two more people as part their investigation into activists who planned to take part in demonstrations at the two-day NATO summit....
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What to look for at the NATO summit

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 17:45
A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday....
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