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GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January....
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GOP plan boosts Pentagon, cuts social programs

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republicans who control the House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a crippling wave of budget cuts come January....

Al-Qaida surprise attack kills 20 Yemeni soldiers

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen....

Report: Man sneaks fake bomb into Olympic Park

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
LONDON (AP) -- Olympic organizers said Monday they were looking into a tabloid's report claiming that a worker had been able to sneak a fake bomb - a plastic container with batteries, a phone and modeling clay - into Olympic Park....

Flashy, fiery Sarkozy fades from French scene

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
PARIS (AP) -- When Nicolas Sarkozy bounded up the steps of France's presidential palace in jogging shorts and shoes on his first day in office five years ago, many French instantly sensed they were in for something new....

Flashy, fiery Sarkozy fades from French scene

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
PARIS (AP) -- When Nicolas Sarkozy bounded up the steps of France's presidential palace in jogging shorts and shoes on his first day in office five years ago, many French instantly sensed they were in for something new....

Putin sworn in as Russia's president for 6 years

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief but regal Kremlin ceremony on Monday, while on the streets outside thousands of helmeted riot police prevented hundreds of demonstrators from protesting his return to the presidency....

Putin sworn in as Russia's president for 6 years

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin took the oath of office in a brief but regal Kremlin ceremony on Monday, while on the streets outside thousands of helmeted riot police prevented hundreds of demonstrators from protesting his return to the presidency....

Obama campaign releases ad emphasizing economy

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is releasing a new television advertisement which argues that Obama saved the country from near-desperate economic straits in early 2009 and deserves a second term....
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Obama campaign releases ad emphasizing economy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is releasing a new television advertisement which argues that Obama saved the country from near-desperate economic straits in early 2009 and deserves a second term....

Al-Qaida releases video of American hostage

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a video released Sunday by al-Qaida, American hostage Warren Weinstein said he will be killed unless President Barack Obama agrees to the militant group's demands....
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Report: Man sneaks box into Olympic Park

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
LONDON (AP) -- Olympic organizers said Monday they were looking into a tabloid's report claiming that a worker had been able to sneak a plastic container with batteries, a phone and modeling clay into Olympic Park....

Socialists key for future Serbian government

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- The Serbian party founded by late strongman Slobodan Milosevic emerged on Monday as potential kingmakers, after general elections in which neither the pro-EU nor nationalist camps clinched clear victory....

Iraq court rules to release Hezbollah prisoner

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
BAGHDAD (AP) -- An Iraqi court on Monday declared a Hezbollah commander accused of killing U.S. solders in Iraq in 2007 not guilty for lack of evidence and ruled that he be set free....

Police investigate after death at Churchill Downs

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Authorities planned to conduct an autopsy Monday for a man who was found dead in a barn at Churchill Downs hours after the Kentucky Derby....
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Al-Qaida surprise attack kills 20 Yemeni soldiers

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen....

Syria holds parliament vote; opposition boycotts

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syrians cast ballots Monday in parliamentary elections billed by the regime as key to President Bashar Assad's political reforms, but the opposition dismissed the vote as a sham meant to preserve his autocratic rule....

Hollande defeats Sarkozy 51.62 pct to 48.38 pct

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
PARIS (AP) -- France has awoken to a new era after electing Socialist Francois Hollande as president, a leftist pledging to buck Europe's austerity trend and NATO's timetable for Afghanistan....

Illinois Ponzi scheme fugitives caught in Arizona

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
TONOPAH, Ariz. (AP) -- Acting on a tip, U.S. marshals in Arizona put an end to an Illinois couple's life on the lam, a dozen years after they fled punishment for running a Ponzi scheme that targeted friends, the elderly, and even family members, authorities said....
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Illinois Ponzi scheme fugitives caught in Arizona

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2026-04-30 14:33
TONOPAH, Ariz. (AP) -- Acting on a tip, U.S. marshals in Arizona put an end to an Illinois couple's life on the lam, a dozen years after they fled punishment for running a Ponzi scheme that targeted friends, the elderly, and even family members, authorities said....
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