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House bill increases hunter access to public lands

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A hunting bill passed by the House on Tuesday makes it harder to restrict hunting and fishing on public lands and ensures that the hunter's arsenal will continue to include lead bullets....
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Dog days in jury selection for Clemens retrial

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One potential juror was questioned for 68 minutes. Another for 64 - and he didn't even make the cut. Along the way, Roger Clemens' lawyer offered some clues as to his strategy once testimony gets under way, including a challenge to whether Congress had a legitimate purpose in holding the hearing at which the seven-time Cy Young Award winner testified - and whether Clemens' testimony was voluntary....
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Pettitte recalls Clemens conversation about HGH

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens sat some 20 feet apart, Pettitte on the witness stand and Clemens at the defense table trying to avoid going to jail. The topic: a remark about human growth hormone Pettitte recalled hearing from his longtime teammate, mentor and workout partner a dozen years ago....
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Dog days in jury selection for Clemens retrial

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One potential juror was questioned for 68 minutes. Another for 64 - and he didn't even make the cut. Along the way, Roger Clemens' lawyer offered some clues as to his strategy once testimony gets under way, including a challenge to whether Congress had a legitimate purpose in holding the hearing at which the seven-time Cy Young Award winner testified - and whether Clemens' testimony was voluntary....
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NYC man convicted in thwarted subway bomb plot

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- In what authorities called the most serious terror threat since the Sept. 11 attacks, a New York City man was convicted Tuesday of plotting with two of his former classmates at a Queens high school to attack the subways as suicide bombers....
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NYC subway plotter testifies at classmate's trial

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- The admitted bomb-maker in a foiled plot against the city's subways appeared in public Tuesday for the first time in more than two years, describing how an FBI most-wanted terrorist recruited him and two friends for an al-Qaida suicide mission in the U.S. after they abandoned plans to wage jihad against U.S. troops in Afghanistan....
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White House threatens to veto GOP business tax cut

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House threatened Tuesday to veto an effort by House Republicans to cut taxes for millions of smaller businesses, calling it an unproductive giveaway to many of the country's most profitable companies....
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White House threatens to veto GOP business tax cut

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House threatened Tuesday to veto an effort by House Republicans to cut taxes for millions of smaller businesses, calling it an unproductive giveaway to many of the country's most profitable companies....
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White House threatens to veto GOP business tax cut

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House threatened Tuesday to veto an effort by House Republicans to cut taxes for millions of smaller businesses, calling it an unproductive giveaway to many of the country's most profitable companies....
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Romney campaigns with grandchildren

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
TROY, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney is focusing on his grandchildren on Father's Day, bringing three of them to talk to the reporters traveling on his campaign plane....

AP PHOTOS: Flower show celebrates N. Korea founder

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- In North Korea, the birthday of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, is the biggest holiday of the year, as important to North Koreans as Thanksgiving is to Americans....

Norway killer expounds on fanatical views at trial

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer got the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shook his hand....

Norway killer expounds on fanatical views at trial

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- In a scene unimaginable in many countries, Norway's worst mass killer got the chance to explain his fanatical views to the court and the world, unrepentant and dressed in a business suit. Prosecutors and lawyers for the families of his 77 victims even shook his hand....

Norwegian gunman says he lost family after attacks

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- The right-wing extremist who confessed to a massacre of 77 people in Norway compared on Monday the pain he caused the families of his victims to his own situation, saying he lost contact with his friends and family after the July 22 attacks....

Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....

Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....

Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....

Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....

Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....

Top Republicans in Congress finally embrace Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-06-03 08:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....
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