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Sportswriter Furman Bisher dies at 93

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Famed Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, who covered everything from major golf tournaments to the Triple Crown during a career that spanned six decades, died Sunday of a massive heart attack outside Atlanta. He was 93....
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Census documenting Great Depression to be released

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....
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Australia says troops could soon leave East Timor

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith says parliamentary elections planned in East Timor could allow international troops to begin withdrawing after six years of restoring stability to the fledgling Southeast Asian nation....

Australia says troops could soon leave East Timor

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith says parliamentary elections planned in East Timor could allow international troops to begin withdrawing after six years of restoring stability to the fledgling Southeast Asian nation....

Romney wins Puerto Rico, race moves to Ill., La.

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Mitt Romney scored an overwhelming win Sunday in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, trouncing chief rival Rick Santorum on the Caribbean island even as the two rivals looked ahead to more competitive contests this week in Illinois and Louisiana....
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Lawyer for Afghan killings suspect to visit him

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers flew to Kansas and was preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran....
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Lawyer for Afghan killings suspect to visit him

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers flew to Kansas and was preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran....
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Lawyer for Afghan killings suspect to visit him

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers flew to Kansas and was preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with the 10-year veteran....
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Murder charges in Uruguay probe of hospital deaths

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Murder charges were filed against two male nurses Sunday and a female nurse was charged with covering up a crime in a case involving more than a dozen deaths at two Uruguayan hospitals, judicial officials said....

Murder charges in Uruguay probe of hospital deaths

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Murder charges were filed against two male nurses Sunday and a female nurse was charged with covering up a crime in a case involving more than a dozen deaths at two Uruguayan hospitals, judicial officials said....

Murder charges in Uruguay probe of hospital deaths

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Murder charges were filed against two male nurses Sunday and a female nurse was charged with covering up a crime in a case involving more than a dozen deaths at two Uruguayan hospitals, judicial officials said....

Indonesia police: 5 terror suspects killed on Bali

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- An elite anti-terrorism squad shot dead five suspected militants and seized several weapons in raids on Indonesia's popular tourist island of Bali, police said Monday....

Indonesia police: 5 terror suspects killed on Bali

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- An elite anti-terrorism squad shot dead five suspected militants and seized several weapons in raids on Indonesia's popular tourist island of Bali, police said Monday....

Indonesia police: 5 terror suspects killed on Bali

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- An elite anti-terrorism squad shot dead five suspected militants and seized several weapons in raids on Indonesia's popular tourist island of Bali, police said Monday....

Cuba detains dissidents ahead of papal visit

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban authorities detained a prominent dissident and dozens of her colleagues early Sunday, then rounded up more activists while they staged a weekly protest march through Havana....

Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
DETROIT (AP) -- For nearly two decades, Carol Bart's untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint, had spent time in prison by coincidence, but not for sexually assaulting Bart....
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Tonga's King Tupou V dies; introduced democracy

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Tonga's King George Tupou V, who gave up most of his powers to bring a more democratic government to his Pacific island nation, died Sunday at a Hong Kong hospital. He was 63....

Romney sweeps all 20 delegates from Puerto Rico

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won all 20 delegates at stake in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary Sunday, adding to his lead in the race for delegates to the party's national convention....

Romney sweeps all 20 delegates from Puerto Rico

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won all 20 delegates at stake in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary Sunday, adding to his lead in the race for delegates to the party's national convention....

Romney sweeps all 20 delegates from Puerto Rico

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 16:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won all 20 delegates at stake in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary Sunday, adding to his lead in the race for delegates to the party's national convention....
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