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Biden says no `stagnation' in employment numbers

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the latest job numbers show an economy still struggling to recover, but not one where hiring suddenly has stalled, which he says just might if Mitt Romney is elected....
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Biden says no `stagnation' in employment numbers

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says the latest job numbers show an economy still struggling to recover, but not one where hiring suddenly has stalled, which he says just might if Mitt Romney is elected....

Biden scoffs at bin Laden view of VP's leadership

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden says he hopes Osama bin Laden was wrong in his assessment that Biden would not be able to lead the nation if the president was killed....
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GOP leaders start to rally around Romney _ sort of

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee....

GOP leaders start to rally around Romney _ sort of

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee....

Activist crisis is US envoy's human rights moment

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
BEIJING (AP) -- As a former U.S. commerce secretary and governor of Washington state, Gary Locke wasn't considered much of a heavyweight on human rights when he became the first Chinese-American ambassador to Beijing last year. Trade and maintaining smooth relations between Washington and its biggest foreign creditor were seen as dominating his agenda....

Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other....
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Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other....
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Leaders fall in Europe crisis: Sarkozy next?

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is widely expected to be kicked out of office in elections Sunday. If he goes, he'll be in good company: Almost every crisis-hit European country that has held an election since disaster struck in 2009 has thrown out its leader....

Doolittle's Raiders recall daring WW II mission

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) -- Three of Doolittle's Raiders who helped boost American morale during the early days of World War II recalled the dangers of their bold bombing attack on Japan mainland....
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Anger, sighs as 9/11 families watch terror hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lee Hanson became deeply angry as the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and co-defendants tried to undermine their arraignment on 3,000 counts of murder at a military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
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Iran 'concerned' over US-Afghan security pact

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran says it is "concerned" about a U.S.-Afghan strategic partnership agreement signed earlier this week that could keep an American military presence in Afghanistan for years to come....

Pro-EU camp faces nationalists in Serbia vote

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbs voted Sunday in a national election that gave them a sharp choice between a government seeking European Union membership or one that would include former nationalist allies of the late Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic....

Round 3 for Greek power-sharing talks

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek power-sharing talks enter a third and final round Thursday, as parties in the crisis-hit country struggled to hammer out a coalition deal after general elections produced no outright winner....

Polls open across France in presidential election

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
PARIS (AP) -- France voted in a presidential run-off election on Sunday that could see Socialist challenger Francois Hollande defeat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by capitalizing on public anger over the government's austerity policies....

Clinton warns against undermining Grameen Bank

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged the government of Bangladesh not to do anything that could undermine the effectiveness of the internationally acclaimed Grameen Bank micro-lender....

Clinton warns against undermining Grameen Bank

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday urged the government of Bangladesh not to do anything that could undermine the effectiveness of the internationally acclaimed Grameen Bank micro-lender....
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Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon!

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
NEW YORK (AP) -- The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrived Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual....
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9/11 defendants ignore judge at Guantanamo hearing

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The second attempt to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four men accused of helping orchestrate the plot got off to a rough start, with the defendants disrupting their arraignment and forcing the proceedings to drag on late into the night....

9/11 defendants ignore judge at Guantanamo hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 20:43
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) -- The second attempt to prosecute the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four men accused of helping orchestrate the plot got off to a rough start, with the defendants disrupting their arraignment and forcing the proceedings to drag on late into the night....
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