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Wisconsin GOP primary tests party's 2012 momentum

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Wisconsin voters are just warming up....

Clinton gets Iran update from Turkish leader

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton conferred with Turkey's prime minister about his nuclear discussions with Iran as the United States began intensively preparing for a round of negotiations between Tehran and world powers to take place within two weeks....
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Surprise militant attack kills 7 Yemeni soldiers

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Al-Qaida-linked militants staged a pre-dawn surprise attack Sunday on an army base in southern Yemen, killing seven soldiers, military officials said....

Clinton doubts that Assad is interested in peace

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
ISTANBUL (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Sunday about whether President Bashar Assad would ever adhere to a U.N.-sponsored peace plan to end Syria's year of bloodshed, and urged world solidarity against a regime that she said was waging war on its own people....
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Clinton doubts that Assad is interested in peace

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
ISTANBUL (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed doubt Sunday about whether President Bashar Assad would ever adhere to a U.N.-sponsored peace plan to end Syria's year of bloodshed, and urged world solidarity against a regime that she said was waging war on its own people....
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Pope, just back from trip, celebrates Palm Sunday

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has kicked off the Catholic Church's Holy Week celebrations with Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square and good news from Cuba....

Details emerge about bin Laden's other residences

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
HARIPUR, Pakistan (AP) -- It's an ornate but not lavish two-story house tucked away at the end of a mud clogged street. This is where Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived for nearly a year until he moved into the villa in which he was eventually killed....

Renowned runner Micah True's body found in NM

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
Searchers on Saturday found the body of renowned long-distance runner Micah True, who vanished four days earlier after heading out from a lodge for a morning run in the rugged wilderness near New Mexico's Gila National Forest....
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Fans burn couches, flip cars after Kentucky's win

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Riot police used pepper spray in small amounts for crowd control as thousands of rowdy fans swarmed into the streets near the University of Kentucky campus, overturning cars and lighting couches ablaze after a victory over cross-state rival Louisville in a Final Four matchup....
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Tribune Broadcasting says no DirecTV deal

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
NEW YORK (AP) -- Tribune Broadcasting said there's been no settlement with DirecTV Inc. in their contract negotiations, which means DirecTV subscribers in 19 U.S. markets will lose access to certain programming....
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised to win parliamentary seat

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar held a landmark election Sunday that was expected to send democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into parliament for her first public office since launching her decades-long struggle against the military-dominated government....

Mega Millions winners are rich, but not THAT rich

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Congratulations, Mega Millions winners! You've just won the biggest lottery in history! Move over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett!...
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3 winners, over 100 million Mega Millions losers

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
RED BUD, Ill. (AP) -- The Mega Millions winners - at least three of them - stayed out of sight. The losers, who could number 100 million, had plenty to say Saturday about losing out on the world's largest-ever lottery jackpot and their dashed dreams of colossal wealth....
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Romney looks to fall campaign, doubts linger

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
FITCHBURG, Wis. (AP) -- Appearing ever-more confident in Wisconsin's primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused entirely on Democratic President Barack Obama during a campaign trip through this upper Midwestern battleground and predicted a victory that could effectively seal the nomination for him Tuesday....

Romney looks to fall campaign, doubts linger

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
FITCHBURG, Wis. (AP) -- Appearing ever-more confident in Wisconsin's primary, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney focused entirely on Democratic President Barack Obama during a campaign trip through this upper Midwestern battleground and predicted a victory that could effectively seal the nomination for him Tuesday....

Nicaraguan businessman accused of drug trafficking

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- Nicaraguan authorities said Saturday that the apparent target of an attack that claimed the life of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral last year is being charged with drug trafficking....

Venezuelan leader returns to Cuba for treatment

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Cuba on Saturday for another round of cancer treatment, saying he will be in Havana for several days and then return home....

Whitney Houston memorabilia auctioned in LA

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- A bustier worn on stage by Whitney Houston fetched $18,750 at an auction Saturday in Beverly Hills of memorabilia from the late pop star's career....
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Concert at Army post in NC geared toward atheists

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don't believe in God, with a county fair-like gathering Saturday on the main parade ground at one of the world's largest Army posts....
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Bombs in southern Thailand kill 14, injure 340

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 02:41
HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) -- Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and injuring 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a high-rise hotel frequented by foreign tourists....
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