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Key House figure refuses meeting with prostitute

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee is refusing to meet with a Colombian prostitute involved in the U.S. Secret Service scandal....
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Merkel: Election loss won't alter Europe policy

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
BERLIN (AP) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel is insisting that a heavy state election defeat for her party in Germany's most populous region won't weaken her as she grapples with a deepening European debt crisis....

Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

Britain bedeviled by binge drinking

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
LONDON (AP) -- The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks....

Lee makes 1st SKorean trip to Myanmar since attack

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar tightened security for a visit by President Lee Myung-bak on Monday, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by North Korean commandos nearly 30 years ago....

Obama seeks to undercut Romney's record on jobs

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials....
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Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
TROY, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney in an interview aired Sunday repeatedly refused to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. He claimed Obama's decision was political, while senior White House adviser David Plouffe said the move wasn't motivated by politics....

Yemeni raids kill 16 al-Qaida militants in south

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida targets on Monday, killing at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot the terror group, military officials said....

World stocks drop as worries over Greece intensify

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
MILAN (AP) -- World stock markets dropped Monday as worries intensified over the condition of the eurozone and whether Greece is edging towards leaving the single currency union....

Gulf Arab envoys study proposals for greater ties

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Gulf Arab leaders have had no problems speaking in a common voice about efforts to fend off opposition inspired by the Arab Spring and the ambitions of their rival, Iran. On Monday, the region's envoys will examine whether to carry that unity to the next level with proposals that foresee a super-state stretching from Kuwait to Oman....

AP Exclusive: Moderate Taliban speaks of divisions

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to his beleaguered homeland of Afghanistan....

AP Exclusive: Moderate Taliban speaks of divisions

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- One of the most powerful men on the Taliban council, Agha Jan Motasim, nearly lost his life in a hail of bullets for advocating a negotiated settlement that would bring a broad-based government to his beleaguered homeland of Afghanistan....

Libyans want answers over deadly NATO airstrikes

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept....

Libyans want answers over deadly NATO airstrikes

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept....

Dalai Lama alleges poison plot; China cries foul

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
BEIJING (AP) -- China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings....

Dalai Lama alleges poison plot; China cries foul

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
BEIJING (AP) -- China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate him by planting poison in their hair for him to touch during blessings....

Pols rockin' the shout-out to teams, trees, grits

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Hooah!"...

Pols rockin' the shout-out to teams, trees, grits

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Hooah!"...

Pols rockin' the shout-out to teams, trees, grits

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:51
WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Hooah!"...
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