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US offers $10 million for Pakistani militant chief

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for the founder of the Pakistani militant group blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people, a move that could complicate U.S.-Pakistan relations at a tense time....

Space tourist is just one way to describe Simonyi

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- Charles Simonyi may still be described as a space tourist even though the Microsoft billionaire has no plans to take a third vacation on the International Space Station and hasn't hung out in outer space for a few years....
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Space tourist is just one way to describe Simonyi

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- Charles Simonyi may still be described as a space tourist even though the Microsoft billionaire has no plans to take a third vacation on the International Space Station and hasn't hung out in outer space for a few years....
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Space tourist is just one way to describe Simonyi

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- Charles Simonyi may still be described as a space tourist even though the Microsoft billionaire has no plans to take a third vacation on the International Space Station and hasn't hung out in outer space for a few years....
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Space tourist is just one way to describe Simonyi

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- Charles Simonyi may still be described as a space tourist even though the Microsoft billionaire has no plans to take a third vacation on the International Space Station and hasn't hung out in outer space for a few years....
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Pit bulls in Philippine dog fights to be put down

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dozens of pit bulls rescued from a dogfighting ring in the Philippines will be put down starting Tuesday by animal welfare activists who say there are no facilities to rehabilitate them and prevent them from again being used in underground arenas....

Architects' answer to rising seas: Floating homes

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
BANGKOK (AP) -- A floating mosque and golf course for the submerging Maldives islands. Amphibious homes in the Netherlands lifted to safety as waters surge beneath them. A hospital perched on 400 stilts to protect patients from Thailand's devastating floods and the encroaching sea nearby....

Architects' answer to rising seas: Floating homes

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
BANGKOK (AP) -- A floating mosque and golf course for the submerging Maldives islands. Amphibious homes in the Netherlands lifted to safety as waters surge beneath them. A hospital perched on 400 stilts to protect patients from Thailand's devastating floods and the encroaching sea nearby....

Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job....
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Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal student loan program seemed like a great idea back in 1965: Borrow to go to college now, pay it back later when you have a job....
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Romney and Obama battle ahead of 3 GOP primaries

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Republican front-runner Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are trading jabs even before Republicans vote in their latest presidential primaries, a sign that both sides believe the race to decide who will oppose the Democrat this fall is coming to a close....

Romney and Obama battle ahead of 3 GOP primaries

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Republican front-runner Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are trading jabs even before Republicans vote in their latest presidential primaries, a sign that both sides believe the race to decide who will oppose the Democrat this fall is coming to a close....

Ark. man accused of abducting daughter surrenders

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas man suspected of abducting his 18-month-old daughter after allegedly beating and stabbing her mother walked into an attorney's office with his daughter and surrendered late Monday, authorities said....
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Eel market sizzles as prices hit $2k/lb in Maine

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Tiny translucent elvers - alien-looking baby eels the size of toothpicks, with big black eyes and spines - are mysterious creatures, floating thousands of miles from their birthplace in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean before ending up each spring in Maine's rivers and streams....
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Obama to criticize Ryan budget plan

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Making a pitch to middle-class voters, President Barack Obama intends to strike back Tuesday at a budget plan promoted by House Republicans, which the White House says will hurt the pocketbooks of working families....
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Obama asks Congress to act on 'to-do' list

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is asking Democrats and Republicans to act on his "to-do list" for Congress, a five-point plan he says would create jobs and help restore middle-class security....

US faces limited options on North Korea

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month....
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US faces limited options on North Korea

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month....
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US faces limited options on North Korea

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes ahead with its planned long-range rocket launch this month....
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French Socialist's big idea: tax the rich

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 01:50
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 a year....
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