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13 dead in Honduran prison fire amid inmate riot

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- At least 13 people died during an uprising by armed inmates at a Honduran prison Thursday, one of them decapitated and the others killed by a fire started by the rioters, authorities said....

Company says alert system worked in Colo. wildfire

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Mary Thuente says her neighbors got an automated call warning them to flee their home as a wildfire spread over the mountains southwest of Denver, but she never got one before she left....
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Sentencing set for Australian fake-collar-bomber

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian investment banker who chained a fake bomb to a 18-year-old woman's neck in a bizarre extortion attempt will be sentenced June 21....

Mali's president hands in resignation

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- From one of the hiding places where he has been holed up since last month's coup, Mali's president penned a resignation letter and handed it to an emissary to deliver to the country's new leaders, while reporters looked on....

Mali coup leader reinstates old constitution

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The junior officer who overthrew Mali's democratically elected leader earlier this month and dissolved the nation's constitution made a public U-turn Sunday, declaring amid enormous international pressure that he was reinstating the 1992 constitution and planning to hold elections....

PHOTOS: Street fires, violence in Spain protest

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Protesters smashed bank and storefront windows with hammers and rocks and set fire to a cafe Thursday as economic protests in Spain's second-largest city turned violent....

PHOTOS: Street fires, violence in Spain protest

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Protesters smashed bank and storefront windows with hammers and rocks and set fire to a cafe Thursday as economic protests in Spain's second-largest city turned violent....

Govs tour Neb. beef plant to see 'pink slime'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) -- Governors of three states got up close with "pink slime" Thursday, touching and examining treated beef at a plant and eating hamburgers made with it in a bid to persuade grossed-out consumers and grocery stores the product is safe to consume....
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911 caller arrested in deadly police shooting

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face....
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911 caller arrested in deadly police shooting

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face....
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911 caller arrested in deadly police shooting

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Oscar Carrillo's 911 call was clear: Two young men just robbed him of his computer and backpack. At least one of them had a gun and it was pointed in Carrillo's face....
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Brazil protests counter military coup celebration

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Riot police used pepper spray and tear gas Thursday to chase protesters away from a celebration by retired soldiers marking the 1964 coup that established Brazil's long military dictatorship....

Spain urged to come clean on bank bailout plan

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
MADRID (AP) -- The European Union urged Spain on Thursday to come clean on how it plans to finance the overhaul of its banking sector, warning that uncertainty over this has contributed the recent market turmoil and the country's soaring borrowing costs....

Spain engulfed by nationwide anti-austerity strike

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish workers enraged by austerity-driven labor reforms to prevent the nation from becoming Europe's next bailout victim slowed down the country's economy in a general strike Thursday, closing factories and clashing with police as the new-center right government tried to convince investors the nation isn't headed for a financial meltdown....

Woman: 'Helpless' at 13 at Pa. rectory with abuser

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A witness in a landmark priest abuse trial told a jury on Thursday she felt "helpless and trapped" as a 13-year-old because a priest was fondling her when she worked weekends at the rectory....
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Woman: 'Helpless' at 13 at Pa. rectory with abuser

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A witness in a landmark priest abuse trial told a jury on Thursday she felt "helpless and trapped" as a 13-year-old because a priest was fondling her when she worked weekends at the rectory....
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JetBlue co-pilot, unlikely hero, instant celebrity

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
SALEM, Ohio (AP) -- Friends and relatives of the co-pilot of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 say he doesn't want to be considered a hero - but that's exactly what many are calling him....
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JetBlue co-pilot, unlikely hero, instant celebrity

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
SALEM, Ohio (AP) -- Friends and relatives of the co-pilot of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 say he doesn't want to be considered a hero - but that's exactly what many are calling him....
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Santorum: US weak on Iran, Israel during Obama era

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is strongly criticizing President Barack Obama in a foreign policy speech that suggest the United States has been weak on Iran, ignores ally Israel and rushes to engage America's enemies....

Santorum: US weak on Iran, Israel during Obama era

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 15:42
FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is strongly criticizing President Barack Obama in a foreign policy speech that suggest the United States has been weak on Iran, ignores ally Israel and rushes to engage America's enemies....
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