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Ferdinand Porsche, 911 sports car designer, dies

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- He designed Porsche's classic 911 sports car - the sleek model that evokes power, wealth and envy among aficionados - cementing his grandfather's name into the modern psyche...

Berlusconi ally quits in corruption scandal

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
ROME (AP) -- The firebrand founder of a populist, Italian anti-immigrant party, whose crucial support kept Silvio Berlusconi in power in three governments, resigned Thursday amid a widening corruption scandal over party funds....

Obama believes women should be admitted to Augusta

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama believes women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National, home of the Masters golf tournament....
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Obama believes women should be admitted to Augusta

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama believes women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National, home of the Masters golf tournament....

Venezuelan horse race preserves cowboy customs

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
SAN FERNANDO DE APURE, Venezuela (AP) -- At the blast of a whistle, a half dozen horses plunge into the Apure River and set out for the distant shore in a unique annual spectacle commemorating a historic battle....

Coca-Cola halts ties to conservative law drafters

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Coca-Cola Co. has ended its membership in a conservative organization seen as the incubator for a string of new state laws on voting and a marketer of laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense statute....
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Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has filed for bankruptcy....

Serial killer's letters may have sped up execution

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Serial killer David Alan Gore is set to be executed sooner than he expected, in part because he could not stop bragging about raping and murdering four teenagers and two women in the Vero Beach area about 30 years ago....
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Connecticut on track to abolish death penalty

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The state Senate voted Thursday voted to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a state that has executed only one prisoner in a half-century and is now on track to join a national trend away from capital punishment....
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Hospital: Former Sen. McGovern in good condition

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Former South Dakota senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern was in good condition Thursday in a Florida hospital where he was undergoing tests, a hospital spokeswoman said....
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US to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use cannon fire to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami....
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US man sits 10 months in Bolivian jail, uncharged

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman, has been confined for 10 months in one of Bolivia's most unruly prisons without being charged. He has shed more than 30 pounds, helpless to do anything as, he alleges, the multimillion-dollar rice farming venture he managed has been plundered....

Life quickly returns to normal after Somalia blast

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A few dozen Mogadishu residents gathered near the national theater Thursday, not to discuss the deadly bombing there the day before, but to talk about how Somalia's seaside capital is moving on....

Hope for Romania baby born with stunted intestines

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Baby Andrei has confounded doctors just by being alive: The tiny boy with twig-thin limbs was given just days to live when he was born with almost no intestines - eight months ago....

US to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use explosives to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami....
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Syrian troops attack Damascus suburb

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops launched a fierce assault on a Damascus suburb Thursday, days ahead of a deadline for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire, with activists describing it as one of the most violent attacks around the capital since the year-old uprising began....

Sequel to anti-warlord video addresses criticisms

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A wildly popular Internet video turned African warlord Joseph Kony into a household name and boosted the international hunt for the brutal rebel leader. Can a sequel do more?...

Sequel to anti-warlord video addresses criticisms

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A wildly popular Internet video turned African warlord Joseph Kony into a household name and boosted the international hunt for the brutal rebel leader. Can a sequel do more?...
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12-person jury, alternates chosen in Sandusky case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A jury was selected Wednesday in the child molestation scandal that brought down Joe Paterno, and the makeup of the panel left no doubt this is Penn State country....
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Syria negotiating deployment of UN mission

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 00:59
GENEVA (AP) -- A team led by a Norwegian major general arrived in Damascus on Thursday to negotiate the possible deployment of a U.N. team that would monitor a cease-fire agreement between Syrian government troops and rebel forces, a spokesman for the U.N. Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said....
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