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JetBlue captain's unraveling baffles friends

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side....
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Obama spends millions more than GOP campaigns

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The costly Republican primary has been draining Mitt Romney's wallet and giving President Barack Obama time to build an expansive campaign architecture with offices in 45 states and hundreds of employees....

Obama spends millions more than GOP campaigns

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The costly Republican primary has been draining Mitt Romney's wallet and giving President Barack Obama time to build an expansive campaign architecture with offices in 45 states and hundreds of employees....

Obama spends millions more than GOP campaigns

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The costly Republican primary has been draining Mitt Romney's wallet and giving President Barack Obama time to build an expansive campaign architecture with offices in 45 states and hundreds of employees....

Obama spends millions more than GOP campaigns

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The costly Republican primary has been draining Mitt Romney's wallet and giving President Barack Obama time to build an expansive campaign architecture with offices in 45 states and hundreds of employees....

Romney's attack ad strategy: time for Obama soon?

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
NEW YORK (AP) -- Rick Santorum doesn't care about the unemployment rate. Newt Gingrich has "more baggage than the airlines." Both are Washington insiders who have bent their principles for money and influence....

UK hacking scandal claims 3rd senior police figure

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
LONDON (AP) -- Scotland Yard's communications chief resigned Thursday, the third senior police figure to part with his job over the force's failure to come to grips with Britain's phone hacking scandal....

UK hacking scandal claims 3rd senior police figure

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
LONDON (AP) -- Scotland Yard's communications chief resigned Thursday, the third senior police figure to part with his job over the force's failure to come to grips with Britain's phone hacking scandal....

Former UK PM Brown: Murdoch tabloid undermined war

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday accused a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid of personally attacking him, failing the British people and undermining the war in Afghanistan through its coverage of the conflict....

Spanish markets take breather after sharp losses

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
MADRID (AP) -- Spanish markets have stabilized, with bond yields edging down after soaring this week on renewed fears the country might eventually need a bailout....

African presidents turn back from Mali

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Five African presidents seeking to restore Mali's elected government were forced to make a mid-air U-turn and head to Ivory Coast to hold their meeting, after demonstrators supporting the military junta took over the tarmac to stop the jets from landing, officials said....

AP Exclusive: Nigeria ex-militant linked to bid

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A former militant leader in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta is linked to a private security company that signed a $103 million deal with the government to patrol the West African nation's waterways against pirates, officials have told The Associated Press....

AP Exclusive: Nigeria ex-militant linked to bid

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A former militant leader in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta is linked to a private security company that signed a $103 million deal with the government to patrol the West African nation's waterways against pirates, officials have told The Associated Press....

Mich. militia head, son plead guilty to gun charge

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
DETROIT (AP) -- A Michigan militia leader and his son each pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally possessing a machine gun, ending a six-week trial that took a dramatic turn this week when a judge dismissed more serious charges of conspiring to rebel against the government....
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Global growth fears drag on markets

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
LONDON (AP) -- Fears of a slowdown in the U.S. and China, the world's two biggest economies, and renewed concerns over Spain's debt hurt markets on Thursday, driving investors to book gains at the end of an otherwise profitable quarter....

House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich....
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House ready to OK GOP budget, rejects rival plans

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich....

Chavez back in Venezuela after 1st radiation round

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well....

Rumors roil Haiti amid political uncertainty

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One senator warned of a panic. Another said things were going to be hot. Neither gave any details, but that didn't matter: Within minutes of their comments on the radio, hundreds of shops closed, schools canceled classes and seemingly everyone rushed home....

House passes bill to keep highway aid flowing

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-19 11:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has passed a stopgap three-month transportation bill to keep federal aid flowing to construction projects....
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