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JetBlue CEO: captain a 'consummate professional'

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The CEO and president of JetBlue says the captain who ranted about a bomb on a flight to Las Vegas is a "consummate professional" whom he has "personally known" for years....
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Uganda protest leader in court after police death

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Uganda's top opposition leader pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of convening an unlawful assembly in a case stemming from the killing of a policeman in violent street clashes last week....

Olympic security review after France attacks

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
LONDON (AP) -- Britain has planned for a dizzying array of security nightmares surrounding the Olympics, including a coordinated attack like the London transit bombings, a dirty bomb or a cyberattack....

Pope wraps Cuba visit with Mass, Fidel meeting

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI wraps up his visit to Cuba on Wednesday with an open-air Mass in the shrine of the Cuban revolution, hoping to revive the Catholic faith in this communist-run country. His other appointment: a meeting with Fidel Castro....

Lunch-goers by the hundreds bust a move in Sweden

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Some workers in Sweden have found a rather offbeat way to spend their lunch hour. Actually, on-beat is more like it....

Activists say mortars hit Syria protest, 10 dead

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces pelted the eastern city of Deir el-Zour with mortars as anti-government protesters were dispersing before dawn Tuesday, killing at least 10 people as government troops kept up an offensive in a coastal province where Washington says regime forces may be preparing another massacre, activists said....

Federal fire crews taking over Colo. wildfire

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Federal fire crews are planning to take the offensive in containing a 7-square-mile blaze that may have claimed two lives and destroyed dozens of homes in the mountains southwest of Denver....
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Bulgaria scraps plan for second nuclear plant

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Bulgaria has abandoned plans to build a second 2,000-megawatt nuclear power plant on the Danube River with Russian firm Atomstroyexport, a top official said Wednesday....

Portugal's woes drive personal bankruptcies

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Nuno Pinto is 40, out of work and contemplating a step he thinks is the only way out of his family's financial plight: personal bankruptcy....

Court: What's left of health law without mandate?

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The heart of the Obama administration's health care overhaul hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is turning to whether the rest of the law can survive if the crucial individual insurance requirement is struck down....
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Sarkozy embraces small good news for the economy

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
PARIS (AP) -- President Nicolas Sarkozy is playing up tiny signs of a pickup in the stagnant French economy as he tries to convince skeptical voters to hand him a second term....

Prominent Pakistani acid victim commits suicide

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistani acid attack victim Fakhra Younus had endured more than three dozen surgeries over more than a decade to repair her severely damaged face and body when she finally decided life was no longer worth living....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....
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Analysis: Health ruling looms small in Obama race

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law....

Friends in Gulf fishing tragedy; only 1 survives

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
HOUSTON (AP) -- For hours after their boat sank, Ken Henderson and Ed Coen treaded water in the Gulf of Mexico, talking about life and death while struggling to survive. For more than 30 hours, it worked....
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Saudi diplomat kidnapped in southern Yemen

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Saudi diplomat was kidnapped on his way to work Wednesday in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, a Yemeni security official said....

Black farmers file claims in USDA settlement

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father's Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture - but was turned down....
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Hearing to focus on Texas boy found after 8 years

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 23:34
HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston boy who disappeared eight years ago and was found earlier this month could soon be reunited with his parents, or he might remain in foster care....
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