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Obama hauls in $1 million for campaign and party

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is hauling in about $1 million for his campaign and for Democratic Party groups....

Obama hauls in $1 million for campaign and party

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is hauling in about $1 million for his campaign and for Democratic Party groups....

THE RACE: Exiting presidential race can be painful

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
Dropping out is hard to do. It's been especially hard for Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul....

Bombs kill 30 in Iraq's worst violence in a month

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bombs ripped through 10 Iraqi cities Thursday, killing at least 30 people and shattering a month of relative calm. Minority lawmakers decried the violence as a tragic but inevitable result of the Shiite-led government's attempts to dominate Iraqi politics....

Lawmaker: More firings likely at US Secret Service

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top lawmaker briefed on the investigation into a Secret Service prostitution scandal said more firings could be imminent following the ouster of three agency employees....
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White House: 'Silver spoon' words not about Romney

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama wasn't talking about Republican Mitt Romney when the president said he "wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth."...

Sen. Rubio refers to himself as 'vice president'

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says he does not want to be vice president now and possibly never. But then he referred to himself as ... vice president....

Romney is Liberty University commencement speaker

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to deliver this year's commencement address at Liberty University, the evangelical Christian institution founded by the late televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr....

India missile test has few critics, unlike NKorea

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India's successful test of a powerful new missile that can carry nuclear weapons to Beijing caused barely a ripple - even in China - just days after North Korea was globally vilified for a failed rocket launch....

Russian court extends jail time for punk rockers

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
MOSCOW (AP) -- Three female punk rockers who mocked Vladimir Putin in a surprise protest inside Russia's main Orthodox church will be kept in jail, a Moscow court ruled Thursday....

GOP pushes business tax cut through divided House

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans have ignored a White House veto threat and pushed an election-year, $46 billion tax cut for most employers through a sharply divided House....
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UN envoy 'horrified' by Syria massacre, 108 dead

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. envoy Kofi Annan called Monday on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms, saying he was horrified by a weekend massacre that killed more than 100 people, including women and small children....

Spending bills begin on bipartisan note

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans in the Senate Thursday rejected cutting agency budgets below levels agreed to in last summer's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama as a key committee kicked off action on a round of 12 annual spending bills totaling more than $1.1 trillion....
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Probe of 1979 disappearance leads to NYC basement

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
NEW YORK (AP) -- A team of police officers and FBI agents began digging up a basement in New York City on Thursday as part of a decades-old investigation into the disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose case made a generation of parents afraid to send their children out alone....
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Tiny Gulf islands rekindle big Arab-Iran dispute

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- There would seem to be enough points of tension to keep Iran and its Gulf Arab rivals fully occupied: Tehran's nuclear program, accusations of Iranian meddling in Bahrain's uprising, Iranian threats to block Gulf oil shipping lanes. But it's all been overshadowed by three contested islands that Iran wants to turn into a tourist draw....

Tiny Gulf islands rekindle big Arab-Iran dispute

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- There would seem to be enough points of tension to keep Iran and its Gulf Arab rivals fully occupied: Tehran's nuclear program, accusations of Iranian meddling in Bahrain's uprising, Iranian threats to block Gulf oil shipping lanes. But it's all been overshadowed by three contested islands that Iran wants to turn into a tourist draw....

Gunmen kill 3, wound 8 at Texas backyard cockfight

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
EDCOUCH, Texas (AP) -- Masked gunmen opened fire during an illegal cockfight at a Texas ranch near Mexico early Thursday, killing three people and wounding eight others in what authorities described as a bloody massacre....
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Lagarde urges direct support for European banks

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the International Monetary Fund says the officials managing Europe's debt bailout fund should consider providing financial support directly to European banks that need more capital reserves....

UK frustrated in bid to deport radical Islamist

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
LONDON (AP) -- An extremist cleric who has avoided Britain's efforts to deport him to Jordan for more than a decade was told Thursday he may have dealt a new blow to the country's exasperated government....

UK frustrated in bid to deport radical Islamist

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-06-07 13:41
LONDON (AP) -- An extremist cleric who has avoided Britain's efforts to deport him to Jordan for more than a decade was told Thursday he may have dealt a new blow to the country's exasperated government....
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