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Senate Dems ready bill freezing student loan costs

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms....
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Looking for a few good boomers to help others

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Local charities and nonprofits are looking for a few good baby boomers - well, lots of them, actually - to roll up their sleeves to help local schools, soup kitchens and others in need....
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Senate nears passage of bill to slow postal cuts

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal Service would make it harder to close thousands of low-revenue post offices and end Saturday mail delivery - steps the struggling agency says are needed to reduce billions in debt and become profitable again....
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Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Annan wants new strategy to end Syria conflict

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.N. diplomats say international envoy Kofi Annan is urging the divided Security Council to unite and act immediately to pressure the Syrian government to implement his peace plan and keep the escalating conflict from spiraling out of control....

Romney looks to pad delegate lead in 2 primaries

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was inching closer to officially claiming the Republican presidential nomination as Arkansas and Kentucky voted in primaries Tuesday....

Romney sweeps 5 wins, promises 'better America'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney laid claim to the fiercely contested Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a fistful of primary triumphs, then urged all who struggle in a shaky U.S. economy to "hold on a little longer, a better America begins tonight."...

Romney sweeps 5 wins, promises 'better America'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney laid claim to the fiercely contested Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a fistful of primary triumphs, then urged all who struggle in a shaky U.S. economy to "hold on a little longer, a better America begins tonight."...

Romney builds on big lead in race for delegates

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney added to his big lead in the race for convention delegates Tuesday with a five-state sweep of Republican presidential primaries....

Romney builds on big lead in race for delegates

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney added to his big lead in the race for convention delegates Tuesday with a five-state sweep of Republican presidential primaries....

Romney inches closer to clinching GOP nomination

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won most of the delegates in the Oregon primary, leaving him 153 delegates shy of the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president....

Obama says Romney is stuck with conservative views

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney can't disavow the conservative views he embraced as candidate during the Republican presidential primaries, President Barack Obama says in a new interview. However, Obama acknowledges that he too is struggling against public skepticism because of the slow economic recovery....

Obama says Romney is stuck with conservative views

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney can't disavow the conservative views he embraced as candidate during the Republican presidential primaries, President Barack Obama says in a new interview. However, Obama acknowledges that he too is struggling against public skepticism because of the slow economic recovery....

Obama says Romney is stuck with conservative views

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney can't disavow the conservative views he embraced as candidate during the Republican presidential primaries, President Barack Obama says in a new interview. However, Obama acknowledges that he too is struggling against public skepticism because of the slow economic recovery....
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Obama says Romney is stuck with conservative views

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney can't disavow the conservative views he embraced as candidate during the Republican presidential primaries, President Barack Obama says in a new interview. However, Obama acknowledges that he too is struggling against public skepticism because of the slow economic recovery....

Ted Nugent pleads guilty in illegal AK bear kill

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting a black bear he illegally killed in Alaska, saying he was sorry for unwittingly violating the law....
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Romney builds on big lead in race for delegates

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 23:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney added to his big lead in the race for convention delegates Tuesday with a five-state sweep of Republican presidential primaries....
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