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Belarus executes 2 men convicted of subway bombing

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
MINSK, Belarus (AP) -- Two men convicted of carrying out a deadly subway bombing last year in Belarus' capital have been executed, drawing strong condemnation from activists and the European Union....

Uruguay probes possible hospital homicides

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- An investigation into dozens of possibly induced deaths at two Uruguayan hospitals has led to the detention of at least two nurses, officials said Sunday....

Clashes in rival towns kill 22 in western Libya

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Militias from rival towns in western Libya battled each other with tanks and artillery on Tuesday in fierce fighting that killed at least 22 people, local officials said....

2 Brazilian women kidnapped in Egypt's Sinai

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
AL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) -- Armed tribesmen on Sunday kidnapped two Brazilian women and their Egyptian tour guide as they were traveling on a bus near Mount Sinai, according to security officials....

Census documenting Great Depression to be released

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
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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Egypt Christians pay final respects to their pope

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
CAIRO (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Coptic Christians lined up outside a cathedral in the Egyptian capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to the spiritual leader of their ancient church, whose body was seated inside on an ornate throne....

Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
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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Cuba's Ladies in White protest without incident

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
HAVANA (AP) -- A Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White held its customary weekly protest without incident Sunday on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the island....

Cuba detains dissidents ahead of papal visit

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban authorities detained a prominent dissident and dozens of her colleagues early Sunday, while others held a weekly protest march through Havana....

Death of consul's daughter spurs Venezuela outcry

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The killing of a Chilean diplomat's teenage daughter by police is reigniting concerns among Venezuelans about excessive force by officers and their alleged involvement in rampant violent crime....

Gauck elected new German president

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
BERLIN (AP) -- A far-reaching majority of lawmakers elected former East German pro-democracy activist Joachim Gauck as Germany's new president Sunday....

New wrinkle in pot debate: stoned driving

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
DENVER (AP) -- Officials are grappling with a problem no one's sure how to solve: How do you tell if someone is too stoned to drive?...
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Lawyer for Afghan suspect to visit with him Monday

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
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 was flying Sunday to Kansas and getting ready to meet for the first time with the 10-year veteran....
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Puerto Rico votes; GOP candidates battle elsewhere

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Conventional wisdom is that Republican front-runner Mitt Romney will clinch the nomination before the national convention in Tampa this summer. But no one sent challenger Rick Santorum that memo....
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Alternate juror disagrees with Rutgers verdict

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....
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Buried amid rape kit backlog: Justice for victims

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
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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Witness: Occupy protesters beaten during arrests

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
NEW YORK (AP) -- An Occupy Wall Street protester says police gave demonstrators little warning before kicking them out of a New York City park overnight and that officers beat several of them during the arrests....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
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For a century, underground railroad ran south

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 13:29
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....
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