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Senate set for key vote on insider trading ban

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job....

Senate set for key vote on insider trading ban

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job....

Court weighs US power over states in health case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field....
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Court weighs US power over states in health case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court weighs US power over states in health case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court weighs US power over states in health case

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Campaign grind takes its toll on GOP candidates

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a good thing the GOP presidential race slows down from here: The candidates are even more tired than the voters. And, boy, does it show....

Myanmar struggling to handle new surge in visitors

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room....

Obama putting Oklahoma pipeline on fast track

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Deep in Republican oil country, President Barack Obama is fending off criticism of his energy policies, pointing to plans to fast-track an oil pipeline that emerged after he delayed the larger Keystone XL project earlier this year....
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US says 5 nations clear out weapons-grade uranium

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. has helped five nations completely clear out their stocks of highly enriched uranium since President Barack Obama outlined his plans for securing all weapons-usable materials worldwide, officials say, citing it as progress in the administration's efforts to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in terrorists' hands....
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2 US men arrested on gay cruise in Caribbean

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) -- Two California men on a gay cruise of the Caribbean were arrested Wednesday in Dominica, where sex between two men is illegal....

2 US men arrested on gay cruise in Caribbean

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) -- Two California men on a gay cruise of the Caribbean were arrested Wednesday in Dominica, where sex between two men is illegal....

A look at NKorea accordionists behind A-ha moment

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Five teenagers in school uniforms hold accordions. On the wall is a giant painting of the secret mountain hideout of their nation's founder, Kim Il Sung. Small red stickers on their instruments mark them as gifts from Kim Jong Il....

A look at NKorea accordionists behind A-ha moment

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Five teenagers in school uniforms hold accordions. On the wall is a giant painting of the secret mountain hideout of their nation's founder, Kim Il Sung. Small red stickers on their instruments mark them as gifts from Kim Jong Il....

Mexico judges rule that Frenchwoman not be freed

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Supreme Court panel voted Wednesday not to free a Frenchwoman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping in a case that has put Mexico's troubled justice system on trial and become a cause celebre in France....

Mexico judges rule that Frenchwoman not be freed

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Supreme Court panel voted Wednesday not to free a Frenchwoman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping in a case that has put Mexico's troubled justice system on trial and become a cause celebre in France....

Mexico judges rule that Frenchwoman not be freed

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Supreme Court panel voted Wednesday not to free a Frenchwoman who says she was unjustly sentenced to 60 years in prison for kidnapping in a case that has put Mexico's troubled justice system on trial and become a cause celebre in France....

IBM, NYC hospital training Watson in cancer

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- The medical training of IBM's speedy Watson computer will continue with a residency at a renowned Manhattan cancer hospital....
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Bloomberg to give $220M to world tobacco control

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire who has made reducing smoking one of his signature causes as mayor of New York City, is committing $220 million to his charity to go toward reducing tobacco use in countries that are home to millions of smokers....
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Wis. town longs for relief from mysterious booms

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-16 02:49
CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Sleepless families in a small Wisconsin town longed for quiet Wednesday after mysterious booming noises over the past few nights roused them from bed and sent residents into the street - sometimes still in pajamas....
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