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Wisconsin governor releases better 2011 jobs data

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican Gov. Scott Walker released updated employment figures Wednesday that show Wisconsin actually added a small number of jobs during his first year in office, hoping to undermine a central argument of those trying to recall him who argue he has hurt the state economy....

Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution."...

Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution."...

Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution."...

Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution."...

Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution."...

Congress considers threats from airport employees

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday....
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Anger, drama at Ratko Mladic's genocide trial

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened Wednesday. Yet he still managed to inflame Bosnia's festering war wounds with the flick of his hand....

Yemeni army kills 29 al-Qaida fighters

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Government troops and warplanes pounded al-Qaida positions in southern Yemen on Wednesday, killing at least 29 militants as part of a ramped up campaign against the group, military officials said....

96 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years....

70 days, iconic sites: Olympic torch coming to UK

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Time to get out the cameras: Britain's most photogenic man will be bringing the Olympic flame back from Greece....

US lowers cutoff for lead poisoning in young kids

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children....
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FTC: Skechers deceived consumers with shoe ads

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush....
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Obama warns against political disruption in Yemen

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama served notice Wednesday to those seeking to disrupt Yemen's political transition that he would use whatever authority is available to sanction individuals and entities who undermine stability in the strategically important Middle Eastern nation....
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Obama calls on Congress to help small businesses

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Congress could help sustain the economy's "momentum" by passing legislation that would give businesses a 10 percent income tax credit if they create new jobs or increase wages this year....
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Obama calls on Congress to help small businesses

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says Congress could help sustain the economy's "momentum" by passing legislation that would give businesses a 10 percent income tax credit if they create new jobs or increase wages this year....

Police uproot protest camp in Moscow

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian police dispersed a protest camp in central Moscow that had become a rallying point for President Vladimir Putin's foes, briefly detaining about 20 activists in a show of force that comes as part of a broadening crackdown on the opposition....

NJ gov., mayor channel Seinfeld in video parody

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and Christie's vice presidential potential....

NJ gov., mayor channel Seinfeld in video parody

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and Christie's vice presidential potential....

NJ gov., mayor channel Seinfeld in video parody

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 19:49
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and Christie's vice presidential potential....
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