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Obama and Romney on gay rights

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on gay rights:...

Obama and Romney on gay rights

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney on gay rights:...

Fla. city uses robocalls to fight nuisance signs

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- The cheap signs smashed into lawns and along the corners of busy intersections are hard to miss. "We Buy Junk Cars!" `'Cash for Your House!" `'Computer Repair." The eyesores have vexed Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober for the past few years as he wastes valuable resources plucking up the signs only to watch them pop up in even greater numbers....
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Hopes rise for Greece power-sharing talks

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Hopes rose slightly Thursday that Greece could end its post-electoral deadlock without having to hold new elections, as international partners warned that Athens must stick to its hugely unpopular austerity program or abandon the euro....

Hopes rise for Greece power-sharing talks

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Hopes rose slightly Thursday that Greece could end its post-electoral deadlock without having to hold new elections, as international partners warned that Athens must stick to its hugely unpopular austerity program or abandon the euro....

Hopes rise for Greece power-sharing talks

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Hopes rose slightly Thursday that Greece could end its post-electoral deadlock without having to hold new elections, as international partners warned that Athens must stick to its hugely unpopular austerity program or abandon the euro....

Civil rights lawsuit filed against Ariz. sheriff

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
PHOENIX (AP) -- As defiant as ever, get-tough Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces a federal court showdown over charges that deputies on his trademark immigration patrols racially profiled Latinos in violation of civil rights law....
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Change to top of WTC raises questions over height

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
NEW YORK (AP) -- A change to the design of a needle that will sit atop One World Trade Center is raising questions over whether the building will be America's tallest when completed....
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Postal Service loses $3.2B in 2nd quarter

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drowning in red ink, the U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported a quarterly loss of $3.2 billion and blamed Congress for blocking the agency's cost-cutting efforts to offset declining mail volume and mounting costs for future retiree health benefits....
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GOP plan cuts social programs to protect Pentagon

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving to protect the Pentagon, Republicans controlling the House are pressing for cuts to food stamps, health care and pensions for federal workers as an alternative to an automatic 10 percent cut to the military next year....
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Tsipras says Greek euro exit bad for Europe

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The head of Greece's Radical Left Coalition says a Greek exit from the euro would damage both the country and Europe, but insists the austerity measures imposed by international creditors are too harsh and must be changed....

Tsipras says Greek euro exit bad for Europe

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The head of Greece's Radical Left Coalition says a Greek exit from the euro would damage both the country and Europe, but insists the austerity measures imposed by international creditors are too harsh and must be changed....

Tsipras says Greek euro exit bad for Europe

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The head of Greece's Radical Left Coalition says a Greek exit from the euro would damage both the country and Europe, but insists the austerity measures imposed by international creditors are too harsh and must be changed....

PM's ex-aide denies he was hired for Murdoch ties

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
LONDON (AP) -- The secretive spin doctor who helped bring Prime Minister David Cameron to power made a rare public appearance Thursday at Britain's media ethics inquiry - denying that he got the job to boost Cameron's clout with Rupert Murdoch's powerful media empire....

International adoptions drop amid fraud crackdowns

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The number of international adoptions has fallen to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic families....

International adoptions drop amid fraud crackdowns

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The number of international adoptions has fallen to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic families....

Romney denies targeting classmates for being gay

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for "stupid" high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. His swift response reflected the Republican presidential candidate's recognition that his record on gay rights is under heightened scrutiny following President Barack Obama's embrace of gay marriage....
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Romney counters notion he bullied gay classmates

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Thursday countered the notion that he bullied high school classmates and insisted he didn't know some were gay....

Irish church tries to rebuild after sex abuse

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The archbishop of Dublin, a leading voice for reform following Ireland's devastating Catholic church sex abuse scandal, said Thursday that the Irish church is trying to rebuild even as he demands the full truth be told about the past....

Report: Suspect billings at 2,600 drugstores

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 12:05
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them....
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