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Panel chides Vitter for violating public trust

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was on track for pay raise that would have brought his salary on par with other Cabinet secretaries, until Sen. David Vitter gave him a quota. Until Salazar each month approved six new deep-water permits to allow exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Vitter would block the raise....

Panel chides Vitter for violating public trust

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was on track for pay raise that would have brought his salary on par with other Cabinet secretaries, until Sen. David Vitter gave him a quota. Until Salazar each month approved six new deep-water permits to allow exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Vitter would block the raise....

Panel chides Vitter for violating public trust

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was on track for pay raise that would have brought his salary on par with other Cabinet secretaries, until Sen. David Vitter gave him a quota. Until Salazar each month approved six new deep-water permits to allow exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Vitter would block the raise....

Panel chides Vitter for violating public trust

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was on track for pay raise that would have brought his salary on par with other Cabinet secretaries, until Sen. David Vitter gave him a quota. Until Salazar each month approved six new deep-water permits to allow exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Vitter would block the raise....

Did you hear the 1 about the politician who ...

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney hit an off note this week when he told a "humorous" story about his dad shutting down a factory. Robert De Niro managed to get both Newt Gingrich and the Obama campaign riled up when he joked at an Obama fundraiser that America isn't ready for a white first lady. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, still nursing wounds from his failed presidential campaign, did himself a world of good with his self-deprecating jokes at a recent Washington dinner....
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised for public office

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's former military rulers once despised Aung San Suu Kyi so much they would not speak her name....

Myanmar's Suu Kyi poised for public office

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WAH THIN KHA, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's former military rulers once despised Aung San Suu Kyi so much they would not speak her name....

Docs show evidence piled up in Utah disappearance

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- In the quest to figure out what happened to Susan Powell in 2009, Utah authorities compiled a heap of evidence - finding blood in the family home, an eerie hand-written "will" and a young son who bluntly said that mom was dead....
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Docs show evidence piled up in Utah disappearance

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- In the quest to figure out what happened to Susan Powell in 2009, Utah authorities compiled a heap of evidence - finding blood in the family home, an eerie hand-written "will" and a young son who bluntly said that mom was dead....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Docs show evidence piled up in Utah disappearance

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- In the quest to figure out what happened to Susan Powell in 2009, Utah authorities compiled a heap of evidence - finding blood in the family home, an eerie hand-written "will" and a young son who bluntly said that mom was dead....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Official: Winning lottery ticket sold in Maryland

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
CHICAGO (AP) -- Maryland lottery officials announced early Saturday that their state sold what could become the world's largest lottery payout of all-time, but it wasn't immediately clear if that ticket holder would get sole possession of the $640 million jackpot or have to split it with other winners....
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Cruise ship drifting after fire off Philippines

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A cruise ship with about 1,000 people on board was drifting in waters south of the Philippines after a fire disabled its engines, the Philippine coast guard said Saturday. Five crew members were injured....

Official: Winning lottery ticket sold in Maryland

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
CHICAGO (AP) -- Maryland lottery officials announced early Saturday their state sold what could become the world's largest lottery payout of all-time, but it wasn't immediately clear if that ticket holder would get sole possession of the $640 million jackpot or have to split it with other winners....
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Agency: Dreaded citrus disease detected in Calif.

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A citrus disease that has killed millions of citrus trees and cost growers billions of dollars across Florida and Brazil has been detected in California, despite the industry's best efforts to keep it at bay....
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Blood found at Utah home from man's missing wife

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities investigating the 2009 disappearance of a Utah woman found her blood in the family home and a hand-written note in which she expressed fear about her husband and her potential demise, according to documents unsealed Friday....
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Judge throws out rule shielding campaign donors

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission overstepped its bounds in allowing groups that fund certain election ads to keep their financiers anonymous, a federal judge ruled Friday....

Judge throws out rule shielding campaign donors

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission overstepped its bounds in allowing groups that fund certain election ads to keep their financiers anonymous, a federal judge ruled Friday....

Judge throws out rule shielding campaign donors

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Election Commission overstepped its bounds in allowing groups that fund certain election ads to keep their financiers anonymous, a federal judge ruled Friday....

Wade responds to Chicago shootings; nephew wounded

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
CHICAGO (AP) -- A nephew of Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade was one of 13 men shot - two fatally - during a violent six-hour stretch in Chicago, another indication that violence is on the rise in the nation's third-largest city....
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China punishes social media, websites on coup talk

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 21:10
BEIJING (AP) -- China is shuttering more than a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years....
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