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Virginia profile rises in presidential contest

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- Move over Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year's race for the White House....

NOAA sought magician, now wants plans to disappear

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal agency needs illusionist David Copperfield to help escape from criticism over now-canceled plans to hire a speaker to train agency leaders using "magic tools."...
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9/11 families prepare for Guantanamo arraignment

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
NEW YORK (AP) -- It has been a year of milestones for the families of those killed on Sept. 11, with the death of Osama Bin Laden followed by the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Now another painful chapter is set to begin: the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11....
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White House: Time to try another tactic in Syria

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It may be time for the world to acknowledge that a cease-fire is not holding in Syria, and that it is time to try another approach to stop the violence, the White House said Thursday....
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What China's dissidents are saying about Chen

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
BEIJING (AP) -- On Thursday, legal activist Chen Guangcheng told the United States that he wants to leave China, deepening a diplomatic dispute. His case has drawn comments from other prominent Chinese activists and dissidents - both to Chen directly and in other forums....

Judge to Edwards jurors: Don't discuss the case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Jurors in the John Edwards campaign fraud trial have the long holiday weekend to think over the case - but not talk about it - as the judge sternly warned before sending them home after six days of deliberations....
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Anti-abortion group says it has patient records

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- An anti-abortion group says it has the patient records of dozens of women and girls who sought treatment at a Kansas City, Kan., abortion clinic last month - a claim the clinic's attorney says is meant to scare off potential patients and would suggest a crime was committed....
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Anti-abortion group says it has patient records

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- An anti-abortion group says it has the patient records of dozens of women and girls who sought treatment at a Kansas City, Kan., abortion clinic last month - a claim the clinic's attorney says is meant to scare off potential patients and would suggest a crime was committed....
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Virginia profile rises in presidential contest

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (AP) -- Move over Ohio and Florida. Virginia is becoming the hottest new battleground in this year's race for the White House....

NOAA sought magician, now wants plans to disappear

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal agency needs illusionist David Copperfield to help escape from criticism over now-canceled plans to hire a magician to train agency leaders using "magic tools."...
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Somber World Press Day in Somalia after 5th death

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Dozens of Somali journalists met Thursday in somber silence to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, a meeting that came only hours after the killing of the fifth Somali journalist this year....

Seau suicide turns up focus on brain injuries

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
Dave Duerson made it easy to understand why he ended his tortured life....
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China's Chen speaks by phone to Congress hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke to a congressional hearing Thursday from his Beijing hospital bed - and requested a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....
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China's Chen speaks by phone to Congress hearing

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng spoke to a congressional hearing Thursday from his Beijing hospital bed - and requested a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton....
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Govt witness links medical waste to Clemens DNA

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A prosecution witness told jurors that Roger Clemens DNA' showed up on two cotton balls and one needle allegedly used for a steroids injection of the famed pitcher. He then spent almost the entire day fielding questions from lawyers for both sides and from jurors....
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Military commanders warned to get troops in line

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military leaders are telling commanders to get their troops in line and refrain from misconduct such as urinating on enemy corpses, in a sharp response to the tasteless photos and other disturbing examples of bad behavior that have enraged Afghans and complicated war-fighting....
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Military commanders warned to get troops in line

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military leaders are telling commanders to get their troops in line and refrain from misconduct such as urinating on enemy corpses, in a sharp response to the tasteless photos and other disturbing examples of bad behavior that have enraged Afghans and complicated war-fighting....
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Family concerns key to Chinese activist's choices

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
BEIJING (AP) -- Chen Guangcheng's sudden change of heart to leave China after insisting for days he wanted to stay has caught his American supporters off guard. But his reason was simple: His family's safety came first....

Family concerns key to Chinese activist's choices

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
BEIJING (AP) -- Chen Guangcheng's sudden change of heart to leave China after insisting for days he wanted to stay has caught his American supporters off guard. But his reason was simple: His family's safety came first....

Activist's fate deepens US-China suspicions

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-25 20:30
BEIJING (AP) -- The diplomatic disarray deepened Thursday after a blind activist reversed course and asked to leave China with his family, abandoning an arduously negotiated agreement even though he had left the protection of the U.S. Embassy and was in a Beijing hospital ringed by Chinese police....
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