Associated Press

Titanomania: Museum charts obsession with Titanic

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
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....

Clashes in rival towns kill 22 in western Libya

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Militias from rival towns in western Libya battled each other with tanks and artillery on Tuesday in fierce fighting that killed at least 22 people, local officials said....

Clashes in rival towns kill 22 in western Libya

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Militias from rival towns in western Libya battled each other with tanks and artillery on Tuesday in fierce fighting that killed at least 22 people, local officials said....

Large tornadoes, damage reported in Dallas area

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
DALLAS (AP) -- Tornadoes tore through the Dallas area on Tuesday, tearing roofs off homes, tossing trucks into the air and leaving flattened tractor trailers strewn along highways and parking lots....
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French Socialist's big idea: tax the rich

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
PARIS (AP) -- French presidential candidate Francois Hollande, leading in polls but lacking in ideas that stick in voters' minds, finally dropped a bombshell: As president, he would levy a 75 percent tax on anyone who makes more than (EURO)1 million ($1.33 million) a year....

APNewsBreak: Nuke agency cautious on NKorea visit

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
VIENNA (AP) -- As international tensions rise over a planned North Korean rocket launch, the U.N. nuclear agency is taking a wait-and-see attitude on an offer from the North to allow agency experts back into the country, according to a letter shared Tuesday with The Associated Press....

APNewsBreak: Nuke agency cautious on NKorea visit

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
VIENNA (AP) -- As international tensions rise over a planned North Korean rocket launch, the U.N. nuclear agency is taking a wait-and-see attitude on an offer from the North to allow agency experts back into the country, according to a letter shared Tuesday with The Associated Press....

Ohio landlord found dismembered body in bathtub

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- A landlord who found a woman's dismembered remains in her bathtub said he felt compelled to break into the locked bathroom after her mother came looking for her....
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State governments target tax-cheating software

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Cash-strapped state governments that are searching every crevice for money have found a new target: computer programs that enable businesses to keep two sets of books simply by plugging a flash drive into their cash registers....
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Victims of Calif gunman were young, diverse adults

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
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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UN in Haiti sees jump in cholera cases

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Haiti is seeing a jump in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation heads into the annual rainy season, a United Nations humanitarian agency said Tuesday....

Woman, 80, lands plane low on fuel; husband dies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) -- An elderly woman with no recent piloting experience landed a small plane that was running dangerously low on fuel after her husband fell unconscious at the controls, the director of a northeastern Wisconsin airport said Tuesday....
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AP Exclusive: Titanic artifacts linked to officer

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
ATLANTA (AP) -- From the pitch-black depths 2 1/2 miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of William Murdoch, the bridge officer who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg....
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Shiites, Sunnis in post-US Iraq: separate, unequal

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq's ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate - and unequal....

Romney urges GOP to look to campaign against Obama

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney urged his party to shift focus to the general election and said President Barack Obama "gets full credit or blame" for the economy, previewing a look-ahead line of attack even as voters went to the polls Tuesday in GOP primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia....

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan snarls US war efforts

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- U.S. diplomatic efforts to persuade Pakistan to reopen NATO supply lines to the Afghan war are proving no match for rampant anti-Americanism here, with Pakistani lawmakers increasingly unwilling to support a decision that risks them branded as friends of Washington....

Sports, art, streetlights: A new life in Mogadishu

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The crowd - both men and women - cheered wildly as two Mogadishu basketball teams entered an old stadium that once bore the bloodstains of war....

Sports, art, streetlights: A new life in Mogadishu

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- The crowd - both men and women - cheered wildly as two Mogadishu basketball teams entered an old stadium that once bore the bloodstains of war....

Obama says Reagan couldn't get through GOP primary

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says if President Ronald Reagan was running for president now, he "could not get through a Republican primary today."...

Obama says Reagan couldn't get through GOP primary

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 08:16
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says if President Ronald Reagan was running for president now, he "could not get through a Republican primary today."...
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