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SPIN METER: President embraces 'Obamacare'

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has lifted an unofficial ban on using the opposition's term for his health care law, Democratic activists have been chanting "We love Obamacare" in front of the Supreme Court....
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SPIN METER: President embraces 'Obamacare'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now that President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has lifted an unofficial ban on using the opposition's term for his health care law, Democratic activists have been chanting "We love Obamacare" in front of the Supreme Court....

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Romney makes effort to show more personal side

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Mitt Romney doesn't always wear suits these days, and his hair isn't always so perfectly coiffed. He shows up at NASCAR events and tweets pictures of himself eating Subway sandwiches. His wife, Ann, gushes in a new online video about the start of their four-decade old "love story."...

Cop goes undercover to bust California students

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
EXETER, Calif. (AP) -- On his second trip through high school, former C-student Alex Salinas got a lot of A's....
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Calif. Democratic treasurer perpetrated $7M fraud

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Democratic campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee defrauded at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political organizations out of $7 million in a scheme that dates back more than a decade, according to a court filing made Tuesday by federal prosecutors....

Michigan militia members cleared of conspiracy

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
DETROIT (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday gutted the government's case against seven members of a Michigan militia, dismissing the most serious charges in an extraordinary defeat for federal authorities who insisted they had captured homegrown rural extremists poised for war....
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China rights lawyer allowed visit by family

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
BEIJING (AP) -- Family members of jailed prominent lawyer Gao Zhisheng said Wednesday that Chinese authorities have allowed them to visit him in prison, confirming for the first time since he disappeared nearly two years ago that he is alive and in good health....

Pope prays for freedom, 'renewal' in Cuba

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI prayed for freedom and renewal "for the greater good of all Cubans" before the nation's patron saint Tuesday, but the island's communist leaders quickly rejected the Roman Catholic leader's appeal for political change after five decades of one-party rule....

Thousands march as Japan shuts off nuclear power

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
TOKYO (AP) -- Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the last of this nation's 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol....

Prosecutors' filing hints at plea by Dem treasurer

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said Tuesday it has entered a court filing in the case of a campaign treasurer charged with looting the political accounts of numerous Democratic candidates, but it would not respond to inquiries about the nature of the filing....

Gingrich scales back his presidential campaign

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Newt Gingrich is dramatically curtailing his campaign schedule, laying off about a third of his staff and dismissing his campaign manager as he focuses on a last-ditch effort to win the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention....

Mich. militia head, son plead guilty to gun charge

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
DETROIT (AP) -- A Michigan militia leader and his son pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a machine gun, giving prosecutors their only gain in a domestic terror trial that was upended when the judge dismissed charges of plotting war against the government....
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Fiji takes control of national airline from Qantas

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Fiji's military government says it is taking control of the country's national carrier Air Pacific from Australian company Qantas....

Widower addresses Iraqi's death near San Diego

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
LAKESIDE, Calif. (AP) -- The husband of an Iraqi-American woman who was found bludgeoned to death with a threatening note beside her made his first public remarks Tuesday and demanded to know what motivated her killer....
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Terror victims barred from al-Qaida member's funds

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge has barred victims of the September 2001 terror attacks from claiming money an alleged al-Qaida member invested with a Chicago futures brokerage firm....
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Photo albums related to Nazi art theft unveiled

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
DALLAS (AP) -- Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticulously documenting an often forgotten Nazi crime - the massive pillaging of artwork and other cultural items as German troops marched through Europe....
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Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 21:44
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....
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