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Obama to launch student loan interest rate effort

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will make a three-state swing next week to call on Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling....
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Obama to launch student loan interest rate effort

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will make a three-state swing next week to call on Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling....

Romney pulls in $12M as GOP super PAC amasses cash

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In its first publicly available financial report since the Super Tuesday primaries, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign said it raised $12.6 million in contributions last month, a figure that puts Romney at a disadvantage with the man whose job he wants come November....
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Romney's April money suggests GOP rallying for him

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney and his Republican Party raised $40 million in April, an unexpectedly strong haul in the first month of the general campaign that illustrates enthusiasm within the GOP and threatens President Barack Obama's overwhelming cash advantage....

Hacker attack underlines Web role in China scandal

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
BEIJING (AP) -- A massive hacker attack has crippled an overseas website that has reported extensively on China's biggest political turmoil in years, underscoring the pivotal role the Internet has played in the unfolding scandal....

Utility work amid search for missing NYC child

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- He was America's missing child, the little boy who went off to school alone and vanished....
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South Sudan to pull out of oil town, easing crisis

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Responding to international pressure, South Sudan announced Friday it will withdraw its troops from the disputed oil town its forces took over last week, pulling back from offensive military action that pushed the south closer to all-out war with its northern neighbor, Sudan....

Romney has $10M in bank for general election

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has $10 million in the bank as he shifts toward a general election matchup against President Barack Obama....

Romney has $10M in bank for general election

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has $10 million in the bank as he shifts toward a general election matchup against President Barack Obama....

Romney has $10M in bank for general election

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has $10 million in the bank as he shifts toward a general election matchup against President Barack Obama....

AP photographer describes Gulf oil spill then, now

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
ON THE BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) -- I had been taking pictures of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for about a month before I made my first visit to Cat Island on May 22, 2010. I will never forget what I saw there....
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Convicted murderer captured after Kansas jailbreak

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A convicted murderer who escaped from a county jail in Kansas after being transferred from an overcrowded state prison has been caught, the state Department of Corrections said Friday....
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AP Top News at 7:33 a.m. EDT

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
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Optimism in Germany boosts Europe stocks

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
BRUSSELS (AP) -- An optimistic survey on the German economy lifted stocks across Europe on Friday at the end of a week that was overshadowed by worries over Spain's finances....

EU parliament slams Argentina's YPF seizure

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union parliament on Friday condemned Argentina's move to seize control of the YPF division of Spanish oil and gas giant Repsol and demanded that EU takes action against Buenos Aires at the World Trade Organization....

Afghan official: US chopper crashed in bad weather

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A U.S. Army helicopter crashed in bad weather during the night in Afghanistan as it was en route to respond to a suicide attack on a local police checkpoint, an Afghan official said Friday....

Md. becomes first to OK password protection bill

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their log-in information for social media sites like Facebook....
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Breivik studied al-Qaida attacks before rampage

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik took to the Internet to learn how to carry out a bombing-and-shooting rampage, studying attacks by al-Qaida, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center....

Al-Qaida claims Iraq's worst violence in a month

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility Friday for bombings that killed at least 30 people in the capital and across the country the day before, the worst wave of violence in weeks....

Marijuana rally in trouble at Colorado university

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 21:24
DENVER (AP) -- The pungent smell of pot that blankets a popular quadrangle at the University of Colorado-Boulder every April 20 is being replaced by the stench of fish-based fertilizer Friday as administrators try to stamp out one of the nation's largest annual campus celebrations of marijuana....
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