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Romney, on Leno, cracks wise -- just a little

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- On Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was mostly business - though he slipped in a few jokes at the expense of his host and his main political opponent....

Romney, on Leno, cracks wise -- just a little

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- On Jay Leno's "Tonight Show," Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney was mostly business - though he slipped in a few jokes at the expense of his host and his main political opponent....

Some residents not warned about Colo. wildfire

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Some residents in the path of a Colorado wildfire weren't warned to flee because of a problem in an automated call system that relayed a mandatory evacuation order, authorities said Thursday....
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Cuba dissidents concerned for mystery protester

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) -- Leading Cuban dissidents say they don't know the man who shouted anti-government slogans before Pope Benedict XVI's Mass in the eastern city of Santiago. Nor do they know his whereabouts a day after security agents removed him from the ceremony....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Romney says Obama trying to cozy up to Kremlin

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sharpening his attacks, Mitt Romney on Tuesday accused President Barack Obama of trying to ingratiate himself with the Kremlin as part of a pattern of "breathtaking weakness'" in foreign policy....

Analysis: In Senegal, a weighty phone call

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The moment that crystallized this nation's reputation as one of Africa's established democracies came the morning after the presidential election 12 years ago. In the neoclassical presidential palace, Senegal's leader stayed awake all night, counting and re-counting the results that showed in no uncertain terms that he had lost....

Analysis: In Senegal, a weighty phone call

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- The moment that crystallized this nation's reputation as one of Africa's established democracies came the morning after the presidential election 12 years ago. In the neoclassical presidential palace, Senegal's leader stayed awake all night, counting and re-counting the results that showed in no uncertain terms that he had lost....

Bloc puts peacekeepers on standby after Mali coup

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- The body representing nations in western Africa has suspended Mali and has put a peacekeeping force on standby in the most direct threat yet to the junta that seized control of this nation in a coup last week....

Mali rebels attack northern town in coup aftermath

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Rebels on Saturday attacked Mali's strategic northern city of Gao, a day after they took the provincial capital of Kidal, witnesses and an official said. The move deepens the crisis in the landlocked nation at the feet of the Sahara after a coup earlier this month by Malian soldiers angry at the government's handling of the rebellion....

JetBlue captain: 'They're going to take us down!'

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Screaming "They're going to take us down!" a JetBlue pilot stormed through his plane rambling about a bomb and threats from Iraq Tuesday until passengers on the Las Vegas-bound flight tackled him to the ground just outside the cockpit, passengers said....
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Photo albums related to Nazi art theft unveiled

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
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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Colo. wildfire could be linked to controlled burn

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine whether a controlled burn designed to minimize wildfire risk reignited and became a stubborn mountain wildfire that forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes and may have caused the deaths of two people....
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Memo: Philly parish misled about pastor's leave

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buried complaints that priests were molesting children....
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Memo: Philly parish misled about pastor's leave

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buried complaints that priests were molesting children....
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Pope prays for freedom, 'renewal' in Cuba

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
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....

Fiji takes control of national airline from Qantas

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Fiji's military government says it is taking over control of the country's national carrier Air Pacific from Australian company Qantas....

Dems, GOP woo unmarried women voters

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....

Dems, GOP woo unmarried women voters

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 20:46
STERLING, Va. (AP) -- As a married woman, Marisa Hannum had her family's conservatism in mind when she backed Republicans in the 2008 and 2004 presidential elections. Now divorced, she is putting her own interests first as she weighs whether to vote for Democratic President Barack Obama or his Republican challenger this fall....
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