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Reporter attempts to describe taste of hemp vodka

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- As a beer drinker, I knew I was out of my league when I tried to open up the bottle of Purgatory....
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UK runners practice with unlit Olympic torch

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
LONDON (AP) -- Make way for the torch. (But the flame will come later.)...

Fishermen blast premier dive sites off Indonesia

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia (AP) -- Coral gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by illegal fishermen who use explosives or cyanide to kill or stun their prey....

Egypt votes for 2nd day to pick Mubarak successor

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptians voted for a second day Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister against a conservative Islamist, with a sense of gloom hanging over many at the polls over the choice and the prospect that the ruling military will still hold most power even after their nominal handover of authority to civilians by July 1....

The nation's weather

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
Weather Underground Forecast for Friday, April 20, 2012....
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Orangutans sit still for heart ultrasound at zoo

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
ATLANTA (AP) -- The 9-year-old patient sits still, munching on popcorn and sipping grape juice while he gets an ultrasound of his heart....
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Orangutans sit still for heart ultrasound at zoo

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
ATLANTA (AP) -- The 9-year-old patient sits still, munching on popcorn and sipping grape juice while he gets an ultrasound of his heart....
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AP Top News at 4:53 a.m. EDT

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
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UN rights body condemns Syria over Houla massacre

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N.'s top human rights body harshly condemned Syria on Friday for the massacre last week of more than 100 civilians, apparently at the hands of government troops and pro-regime thugs....

Annan 'impatient and frustrated' over Syria

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
BEIRUT (AP) -- Saying he is impatient and frustrated, special envoy Kofi Annan called on the Syrian president Friday to implement a U.N.-brokered peace plan following a horrific weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people....

Ousted Secret Service supervisor joked about Palin

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin says the joke's on the ousted Secret Service supervisor who wrote on Facebook that he was "checking her out" while protecting the former Republican vice presidential candidate during the 2008 campaign....

Ousted Secret Service supervisor joked about Palin

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin says the joke's on the ousted Secret Service supervisor who wrote on Facebook that he was "checking her out" while protecting the former Republican vice presidential candidate during the 2008 campaign....

Ousted Secret Service supervisor joked about Palin

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sarah Palin says the joke's on the ousted Secret Service supervisor who wrote on Facebook that he was "checking her out" while protecting the former Republican vice presidential candidate during the 2008 campaign....

AP photographer describes Gulf oil spill then, now

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
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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AP photographer describes Gulf oil spill then, now

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
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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Fishermen blast premier dive sites off Indonesia

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
KOMODO ISLAND, Indonesia (AP) -- Coral gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by fishermen who use explosives or cyanide to kill or stun their prey....

Reporter attempts to describe taste of hemp vodka

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- As a beer drinker, I knew I was out of my league when I tried to open up the bottle of Purgatory....
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Marijuana rally in trouble at Colorado university

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
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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Genocide trial to be held in Rwanda for first time

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- The first genocide suspect to be transferred by an international genocide tribunal to Rwanda has arrived in the country's capital....

Cruise ship passed by disabled fishing boat

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 22:48
RIO HATO, Panama (AP) -- Three Panamanian men were on their way home after a night of fishing, happy with their success, when the motor on their small open boat rattled and quit, leaving them adrift in sight of land, but too far out for their cell phones to work....
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