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Obama criticizes GOP in speech to union members

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is rallying union workers by painting a bleak portrait of America's infrastructure. He blames Republicans for focusing on tax cutting rather than creating jobs by updating and rebuilding highways, railroads and airports....

10 killed in suicide blast in northeast Nigeria

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
JALINGO, Nigeria (AP) -- A motorcycle-riding suicide bomber drove into a convoy carrying a top police official in northeast Nigeria on Monday, detonating his explosives and killing at least 10 people, rescue officials said....

Pakistanis dead; got 'blood money' in CIA killing

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Police say the widow and mother-in-law of one of two Pakistani men shot and killed by a CIA contractor last year have been murdered in the eastern city of Lahore....

Obama's new campaign slogan: 'Forward'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan: "Forward."...

Obama's new campaign slogan: 'Forward'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan: "Forward."...

Obama's new campaign slogan: 'Forward'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan: "Forward."...

Obama's new campaign slogan: 'Forward'

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan: "Forward."...

Prime Minister Netanyahu's father dies at 102

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the historian and Zionist activist whose skepticism about peacemaking with the Arabs helped to shape the world outlook of his son, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died on Monday. He was 102....

Activist confident China will allow him to leave

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist who triggered a diplomatic dispute between China and the United States said Monday he is confident that Beijing will hold up its end of a tentative deal to let him study overseas....

Analysis: Student loan agreement? Not so fast.

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the political campaigns still taking shape, President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and lawmakers of both parties say they want to protect college students from a sharp increase in interest rates on federally subsidized loans....

What happened in Colombia didn't stay in Colombia

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Secret Service does not often get a black eye behind those oh-so-cool sunglasses. It's got a shiner now....

First lady campaigns in Tucson in Western push

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
PHOENIX (AP) -- Democrats are hailing first lady Michelle Obama's visit to Tucson as the latest sign that Arizona will be up for grabs in November's presidential election, but Republicans insist that the state will go red just like it has the past three election cycles....

SF Bar pilots run into political turbulence

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Since the days of Mark Twain, the San Francisco Bar Pilots have had it good....
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With an asterisk, WTC is back on top in NYC

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
NEW YORK (AP) -- One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, will lay claim to the title of New York City's tallest skyscraper on Monday. Workers will erect steel columns that will make its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 feet high, just enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building....
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Obama, Clintons deepen political and policy ties

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- There were no bear hugs on display, but President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton looked relaxed and friendly as they began a summer fundraising blitz that demonstrates their shared hopes for Democratic victory despite past differences....

Obama, Clintons deepen political and policy ties

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- There were no bear hugs on display, but President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton looked relaxed and friendly as they began a summer fundraising blitz that demonstrates their shared hopes for Democratic victory despite past differences....

Obama, Clintons deepen political and policy ties

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- There were no bear hugs on display, but President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton looked relaxed and friendly as they began a summer fundraising blitz that demonstrates their shared hopes for Democratic victory despite past differences....

Obama, Clintons deepen political and policy ties

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- There were no bear hugs on display, but President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton looked relaxed and friendly as they began a summer fundraising blitz that demonstrates their shared hopes for Democratic victory despite past differences....

Obama, Clintons deepen political and policy ties

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- There were no bear hugs on display, but President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton looked relaxed and friendly as they began a summer fundraising blitz that demonstrates their shared hopes for Democratic victory despite past differences....

AP Photos: NYC's tallest buildings through history

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-06-05 16:03
NEW YORK (AP) -- When it comes to New York's skyscrapers, who's king of the hill and top of the heap?...
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