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Maine voters seek female senator. Enter Angus King

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one....

Shoe-thrower interrupts Breivik trial

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- An Iraqi man whose brother was killed in Norway's worst peacetime massacre hurled a shoe at the confessed killer and urged him to "go to hell" in a rare outburst Friday that briefly interrupted the terror trial of Anders Behring Breivik....

Warnings credited in Midwest tornado outbreak

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
THURMAN, Iowa (AP) -- Concerned that Midwesterners might be complacent after repeated tornado warnings came to nothing, forecasters issued a sternly worded alert, well in advance, that weekend storms could prove fatal....
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As ice cap melts, militaries vie for Arctic edge

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, long-dreamed-of sea lanes and a slew of potential conflicts....

'No, no, no': Hard sell for possible Clemens juror

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man whose response to jury duty was "No, no, no, no, no" and who said he would rather be sleeping was nevertheless found qualified to remain a potential juror in Roger Clemens' perjury trial, which won't finish seating a panel before Monday....
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Feds bulk up to retry Clemens over drug testimony

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department, embarrassed by blundering into a mistrial of Roger Clemens last year, has added more prosecutors as it tries again to convict the famed pitcher of lying to Congress when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs....
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Gay, lesbian supporters cheer Obama at fundraiser

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Barack Obama basked in the support of his gay and lesbian backers Wednesday night, revving up an enthusiastic crowd with a pledge to block any attempt to roll back rights that gay Americans have gained under his administration....

4 hearings this week on agency's spending scandal

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A culture of wasteful spending by the General Services Administration, the real estate agency for federal buildings, comes under scrutiny at four congressional hearings this week....
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C. Guard ends search for 4 missing yacht racers

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday night for four yacht crew members who went missing off the Northern California coast after a weekend racing accident and has no plans to resume it, officials said....
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100 years later, Titanic's sinking affects many

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In ships on the Atlantic Ocean, at a gathering in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, and at services around the world, people are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic....
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100 years later, Titanic's sinking affects many

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In ships on the Atlantic Ocean, at a gathering in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, and at services around the world, people are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic....

100 years later, Titanic's sinking affects many

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In ships on the Atlantic Ocean, at a gathering in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, and at services around the world, people are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic....
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Attacker in Afghan uniform kills US soldier

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a U.S. soldier in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed on Friday, military officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack....

Doolittle's Raid survivors' 70th reunion in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The jovial banter and storytelling will halt, and guests will be ushered out of the meeting room, the door shutting behind them....
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Doolittle's Raid survivors' 70th reunion in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The jovial banter and storytelling will halt, and guests will be ushered out of the meeting room, the door shutting behind them....
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NYC man faces terror trial

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's no dispute that Adis Medunjanin and two of his former high school classmates from Queens packed up and traveled together to Pakistan in 2008....
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First team of UN monitors arrives in Syria

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
GENEVA (AP) -- The advance team of six U.N. observers has arrived in Damascus to monitor Syria's 4-day-old cease-fire, International envoy Kofi Annan's spokesman said Monday....

East Timor holds run-off vote for new president

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Two former guerrilla leaders were vying for East Timor's presidency Monday, each hoping to steer the young, often-troubled nation after U.N. peacekeeping troops begin their planned withdrawal later this year....

Australia eases sanctions against Myanmar

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia is easing some sanctions against Myanmar following the formerly military-run Southeast Asian nation's pledge to move toward democracy....

US, Filipino troops start drills near disputed sea

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-30 04:48
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- U.S. and Philippine military officials say nearly 7,000 American and Filipino troops have begun two weeks of major military exercises but they stress that China is not an imaginary target....
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