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Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday....

Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday....

Nigeria: 7 killed in newspaper office bombings

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility....

Car bombing at north Nigeria church kills 15

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide car bomber drove into a church compound in northern Nigeria Sunday and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said....

Nigeria: 7 killed in newspaper office bombings

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility....

US-Afghan pact achieved despite Karzai's rhetoric

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president has branded his U.S. allies as corrupt, wasteful and contemptuous of Afghan lives. Once he even threatened to join the Taliban. Nonetheless, Hamid Karzai signed a deal that could keep thousands of U.S. troops in his country for years....

Drug-overdose antidote is put in addicts' hands

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin....
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Lesbian Scout leader ousted in Ohio; parents upset

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian - at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization's ban on gays....
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Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered....

Edwards attorney attacks ex-aide's credibility

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' defense lawyer on Thursday picked apart ex-aide Andrew Young's story that he was asked to conceal Edwards' affair with a mistress with campaign money, accusing him of making up stories about the former presidential contender to make money off of the scandal....

In speech, Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad....

APNewsBreak: Donor says he offered internship

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A member of a Los Angeles temple apologized Thursday for offering an internship in a U.S. senator's office as part of a charity auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" says he won....
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Ukraine marks 26th anniversary of Chernobyl

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Urging all nations to be extremely cautious with nuclear energy, Ukraine's president thanked donors for financing the construction of a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster....

US: Mexico seized 68,000 guns from US since 2006

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States....
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Report: Rebates from health care law will top $1B

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday....
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Judge refuses to combine charges in WikiLeaks case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A military judge rejected defense motions Thursday to consolidate some of the 22 charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history....
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APNewsBreak: Donor says he offered internship

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A member of a Los Angeles temple says he offered an internship to U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor's office without the lawmaker's permission in an auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" said he won....
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Drug-overdose antidote is put in addicts' hands

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin....
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Men are fans, too, of `Fifty Shades of Grey'

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....
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Men are fans, too, of `Fifty Shades of Grey'

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 08:59
NEW YORK (AP) -- They're young and old, doctors and churchgoers, gay and straight - and those are just the MEN who have devoured oh-so-naughty "Fifty Shades of Grey," an erotic trilogy that has earned millions of women fans in a matter of weeks....
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