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Pro-Romney group: Mystery $400,000 donation error

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The mystery over a $400,000 campaign contribution to help elect Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney deepened Monday....

AP Interview: Palestinian doubts 2-state solution

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
ABU DIS, West Bank (AP) -- With gloom deepening over prospects for peace, a leading Palestinian is suggesting they might drop the "two-state solution" that has underpinned two decades of negotiations, aiming for Israel and a Palestinian state next to each other....

Official: Sudan bombs 3 areas in South Sudan

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
RUBKONA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudanese warplanes bombed a market and an oil field in South Sudan on Monday, killing at least two people after Sudanese ground forces had reportedly crossed into South Sudan with tanks and artillery, elevating the risk of all-out war between the two old enemies....

Missing Missouri mom's husband charged with murder

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The husband of a Missouri woman who has been missing for nearly a year was charged with first-degree murder Monday even though his wife's body has not been found....
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Panetta dismisses Iran's claims about drone

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday dismissed Tehran's claims that it has recovered data from a U.S. spy drone that went down in Iran late last year....
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April nor'easter dumps rain, snow on East Coast

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A nor'easter packing high winds, soaking rain and springtime snow churned up the Northeast on Monday, unleashing a burst of winter, closing some schools and sparking worries about power outages in communities that were basking in record warmth a month ago....
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Euro setup is unsustainable, ECB chief warns

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The setup of the 17-country euro currency union is unsustainable, the head of the European Central Bank has told EU leaders, warning they must quickly come up with a broad vision for the future to get the bloc through the current financial crisis....

EU imposes new sanctions on Syrian regime

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
LUXEMBOURG (AP) -- The European Union on Monday banned the sale of luxury goods and products to Syria that can have military as well as civilian uses as the U.N. political chief demanded that the Syrian government stop using heavy weapons and comply with a cease-fire....

Coroner opens inquest into death of UK spy

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
LONDON (AP) -- A British codebreaker had complained of friction at the country's overseas spy agency before his naked and decomposing body was found inside a padlocked sports bag, his family told an inquest Monday....

THE RACE: Obama walking fine line in Bain critique

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
President Barack Obama has to tread carefully in targeting Republican rival Mitt Romney's business resume....

THE RACE: Trivial issues fly in White House race

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
These are the dog days of the presidential race, so to speak....

THE RACE: Trivial issues fly in White House race

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
These are the dog days of the presidential race, so to speak....

THE RACE: Trivial issues fly in White House race

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
These are the dog days of the presidential race, so to speak....

THE RACE: Weakening jobs outlook colors campaign

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney both made the economy the main focus of their respective campaigns. Friday's weak jobs report keeps it there....

Fringes cast shadow over French election

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
PARIS (AP) -- Socialist Francois Hollande and conservative Nicolas Sarkozy are going head-to-head in France's presidential runoff, but a third figure looms large in the campaign: the leader of the nation's far-right National Front....

Sanctions lifting could revive Myanmar industry

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Looking across a sea of young workers perched behind rows of buzzing sewing machines, factory owner Myint Soe has one main hope for Monday's suspension of European sanctions on Myanmar - the restoration of some of the 80,000 garment industry jobs lost here over the past 10 years....

No obvious remains found in missing NYC boy dig

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities on Monday finished excavating a Manhattan basement in connection to the disappearance of a 6-year-old boy three decades ago without finding any obvious human remains, law enforcement officials said Monday....
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Neighborhood watch shooter released from Fla. jail

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
MIAMI (AP) -- In a low-key event, George Zimmerman was released from a Florida jail in the middle of the night on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin....
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Obama targets Iran, Syria with new sanctions

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Surrounded by the haunting memories of the Holocaust, a solemn President Barack Obama on Monday announced a new crackdown on Iran and Syria and said the world must never again allow hatred to take root into the "madness" of mass atrocities....
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Nonpartisan gov't auditors rebuke Medicare bonuses

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-06-09 00:57
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a blow to the Obama administration on Medicare, government auditors Monday called for the cancellation of a costly bonus program for private health plans that congressional Republicans have criticized as a wasteful political ploy....
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