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US Mint strikes 9/11 medals as memorial fundraiser

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) -- The U.S. Mint worker dons surgical gloves as she sprays down the large silver pieces like flowers in a garden. They clank and jingle in the tray as liquid beads up on their mirror-like surfaces and they are sent on their way, to be transformed into medals in memory of the Sept. 11 attacks....
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Once an Obama coup, Indiana less a battleground

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
GARY, Ind. (AP) -- Barack Obama was the first Democrat in 44 years to win Indiana in the 2008 presidential race, but the state is hardly a lock for him again....

Diplomats: Nuclear agency chief to visit Tehran

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday....

Diplomats: Nuclear agency chief to visit Tehran

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency chief will fly to Tehran over the weekend to sign a deal meant to allow his organization to resume a long- stalled search for evidence that Iran worked on developing nuclear arms, the agency and diplomats said Friday....

CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, health officials are proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C....
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THE RACE: Key Democrats blur signals on economy

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
It's been a difficult time for President Barack Obama to stay on message....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney working to stay on message

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are being buffeted by crosswinds as Obama fights to keep his job and Romney works to wrest it from him. Both know where they want to go, but getting there is something else....

Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution....

Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution....

Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution....

Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution....

Romney releases first general election TV ad

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's first general-election TV commercial promises he would introduce tax cuts and approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline on the first day of his presidency....

Romney releases first general election TV ad

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's first general-election TV commercial promises he would introduce tax cuts and approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline on the first day of his presidency....

UK surveillance program could expose private lives

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
LONDON (AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."...

UK surveillance program could expose private lives

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
LONDON (AP) -- British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails."...

Stabbed Ohio woman hits child with car, both dead

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A woman was stabbed during an argument while sitting behind the wheel of a car, tried to drive away and struck her attacker's 2-year-old daughter, authorities said Friday. The woman and the girl both died, and the toddler's mother was found naked several blocks away and arrested....
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Georgia woman learns toll of flesh-eating bacteria

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
ATLANTA (AP) -- Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her one remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this."...
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Bully victim's poem prompts healing after 25 years

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) -- A woman's poem about being bullied in a California school 25 years ago has brought her former classmates to tears. Now, they've created a scholarship fund in her name and raised $800 to fly her back to California for a class reunion....
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Malawi's president vows to repeal gay ban

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) -- President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution....

Obama touts $3B in pledges to help feed Africa

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 06:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world....
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