Associated Press

Former OJ lawyer in Vegas sues Florida colleague

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Las Vegas lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson in the Nevada trial that led to the celebrity football star's conviction on armed robbery and kidnapping charges is suing Simpson's Florida-based lead attorney in the case, claiming he was stiffed on promised fees....
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1940 US census viewable online after near freeze

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it....
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Rule restricts hunting of rare exotic antelopes

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- For years, hundreds of Texas ranchers have made big money on exotic antelopes, with hunters paying up to $10,000 to bag just one dama gazelle, a rare animal with short horns curving outward....
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Ohio landlord found dismembered body in bathtub

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- A landlord who found a woman's dismembered remains in her bathtub said he had felt compelled to break into the locked bathroom after her worried mother came looking for her....
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Former OJ lawyer in Vegas sues Florida colleague

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Las Vegas lawyer who represented O.J. Simpson in the Nevada trial that led to the celebrity football star's armed robbery and kidnapping conviction is suing Simpson's Florida-based lead attorney in the case, alleging that he wasn't paid promised fees....
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IMF chief wants 'more firepower' to fight crises

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The managing director of the International Monetary Fund made an impassioned plea Tuesday for American leadership in the global economy as she called for the international community to give her organization "more firepower" to bolster tottering economies....

Calls show residents panicked over Colo. wildfire

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
DENVER (AP) -- Calls from confused and worried residents poured into Colorado sheriff's dispatchers for hours last week as a wildfire spread rapidly toward dozens of homes, with one caller expressing disbelief when told that the wind-fueled blaze was a "controlled burn."...
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1940 US census viewable online after near freeze

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- The newly released 1940 U.S. census is such a digital smash that it took a day for the website hosting it to get up to speed after tens of millions of hits almost paralyzed it....
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Ethics case in Mass. worries defense attorneys

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
BOSTON (AP) -- A couple of months before Election Day in 2010, the Massachusetts lottery began running a TV commercial in which it pronounced itself "the most successful state lottery in America" and boasted of providing a bounty of money for roads, schools, police and firefighters....
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Ethics case in Mass. worries defense attorneys

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
BOSTON (AP) -- A couple of months before Election Day in 2010, the Massachusetts lottery began running a TV commercial in which it pronounced itself "the most successful state lottery in America" and boasted of providing a bounty of money for roads, schools, police and firefighters....
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Large tornadoes, damage reported in Dallas area

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
DALLAS (AP) -- Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area Tuesday, peeling roofs off homes, tossing big-rig trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots....
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CA attack suspect upset about expulsion, teasing

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- One Goh's life was on the skids even before he became the suspect in the nation's biggest mass school shooting since Virginia Tech....
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Pit bulls in Philippine dog fights to be put down

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- At least nine pit bulls rescued from a dogfighting ring in the Philippines were euthanized Tuesday and dozens more are likely to be because there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from reappearing in underground arenas....

James Murdoch steps down as BSkyB chairman

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
LONDON (AP) -- Once his father's heir apparent, James Murdoch stepped down Tuesday as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, surrendering one of the biggest jobs in the Murdoch media empire in a bid to distance the broadcaster from a deepening phone hacking scandal....

Argentina condemns Cameron's remarks on Falklands

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina's government on Tuesday condemned remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said that Britain played a role in "righting a profound wrong" in its 1982 war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands....

Argentina condemns Cameron's remarks on Falklands

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina's government on Tuesday condemned remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said that Britain played a role in "righting a profound wrong" in its 1982 war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands....

Pakistani court acquits 4 of helping NYC bomber

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday acquitted four men who had been charged with helping a Pakistani-American man carry out a failed attempt to detonate a truck bomb in New York's Time Square, said their lawyer and family members....

Pakistan: US missile attack kills 4 in northwest

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- An American drone fired two missiles at a bakery in northwest Pakistan Saturday and killed four suspected militants, officials said, as the U.S. pushed on with its drone campaign despite Pakistani demands to stop. This was the third such strike in the country in less than a week....

Victims of Calif. gunman were young, diverse

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
Six students and one employee died when a gunman opened fire at Christian-based Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. Three other people were wounded....
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Titanomania: Museum charts obsession with Titanic

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 09:38
SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) -- Somewhere between the black Titanic teddy bears and the pale Iceberg beer, the Titanic Barbie doll and the "Tubtanic" bath plug, the global obsession with the story of the doomed ocean liner began to border on the absurd....
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