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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....
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INSIDE WASHINGTON: Who pays when prez politicks?

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama....

Murdoch, politicians under pressure after report

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
LONDON (AP) -- Not fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets - and a headache for Britain's government....

Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
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....

Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic congressman says a government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe at the National Labor Relations Board after finding more inside information was leaked to an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney....

UK minister: Briton found dead in China not a spy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday took the unusual step of publicly insisting that a U.K. businessman who died in suspicious circumstances in China was not working as a British spy....

Political battle over student loans heating up

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Democratic leader accused Republicans Thursday of raiding women's programs to pay for a bill keeping student loan interest rates low in an election-year battle over college aid....
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Photo: North Korea's big show visible from space

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
In North Korea, the choreography can be part of the geography....

The '92 riot: Revisiting a dark day in LA history

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it....
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Secret Gaza ballot kicks off Hamas leadership vote

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas officials say the Islamic militant movement has secretly chosen new leaders for Gaza, including previously sidelined pragmatists....

Hard-line Iraqi cleric urges political unity

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- A hard-line Shiite cleric is meeting with the president of Iraq's Kurdish region to try to end a political crisis that has deadlocked the nation's government....

Bahrain lawyer presses to visit hunger striker

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- The lawyer for a jailed Bahraini activist on a lengthy hunger strike said Thursday he will seek a court order granting him visiting rights to his client....

Ariz. migrant case could lead to sweeping changes

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
PHOENIX (AP) -- The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration if the Supreme Court follows through on its suggestion that it would let local police enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's immigration law....
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France threatens to pull out of borderless Europe

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- In the heat of France's presidential election campaign, the French government insisted Thursday that if the European Union didn't back its tougher line to fight illegal immigration it would lead to the demise of the continent's borderless travel zone....

Judge refuses to combine charges in WikiLeaks case

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A military judge rejected a defense motion Thursday to consolidate some of charges against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in U.S. history....
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House moves ahead with cybersecurity bill

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans are pushing ahead with legislation to protect the nation's critical infrastructure and corporations from electronic attacks despite Obama administration objections that the legislation fails to protect Americans' civil liberties....
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Syria blames rebels for blast that killed 16

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers on Thursday inspected the site of a deadly explosion that flattened a block of houses in the central Syrian city of Hama a day earlier and killed at least 16 people....

Report: Florida troopers erred before Jan. crashes

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant didn't have any formal training or know the procedures before he re-opened a fog- and smoke-shrouded highway where a series of crashes killed 11 people in January, investigators said in a report released Thursday....
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Official: Ominous calm returns to South Sudan

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
BENTIU, South Sudan (AP) -- An official says that for the second day there were no reported attacks by Sudan on South Sudan, following a week or military incursions by both sides and aerial bombardments by Sudanese warplanes....

FACT CHECK: Romney on his dad growing up poor

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 07:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney likes to talk about how his father "grew up poor." But that's not the whole story....
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