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US man captured by militia in Iraq released to UN

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Wearing a U.S. Army uniform and flanked by Iraqi lawmakers, an American citizen announced Saturday that he was being released from more than nine months of imprisonment by a Shiite militia that for years targeted U.S. troops....

Santorum campaigns in Missouri as caucuses begin

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
EFFINGHAM, Ill. (AP) -- Rick Santorum on Saturday morphed his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination into the incumbent Democrat both are fighting to unseat, calling the two indistinguishable on key issues of the day....

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no....
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Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Apple firestorm leads artist to change his show

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mike Daisey, the off-Broadway performer who admitted that he made up parts of his one-man show about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy....
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Apple firestorm leads artist to change his show

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mike Daisey, the off-Broadway performer who admitted that he made up parts of his one-man show about Apple products being made in Chinese sweatshops, has cut questionable sections from the monologue and added a prologue explaining the controversy....
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Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Colombian rebels: Expect to free hostages soon

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's largest rebel group said Saturday that it's ready to start freeing 10 soldiers and police officers who have been held prisoner for as long as 14 years....

Occupy Wall Street celebrates 6 months since start

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
NEW YORK (AP) -- Chanting and cheering down Wall Street on Saturday to mark six months since the birth of the Occupy movement, some protesters applauded the Goldman Sachs employee who days ago gave the firm a public drubbing, echoing the movement's indictment of a financial system demonstrators say is fueled by reckless greed....
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Pope of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church dies

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, died Saturday. He was 88....

Money, career woes plagued Afghan killings suspect

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
LAKE TAPPS, Wash. (AP) -- Bypassed for a promotion and struggling to pay for his house, Robert Bales was eyeing a way out of his job at a Washington state military base months before he allegedly gunned down 16 civilians in an Afghan war zone, records and interviews showed as a deeper picture emerged Saturday of the Army sergeant's financial troubles and brushes with the law....
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GOP preps for budget battle with Democrats, Obama

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them....
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GOP preps for budget battle with Democrats, Obama

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

US man captured by militia in Iraq released to UN

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 11:47
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Wearing a U.S. Army uniform and flanked by Iraqi lawmakers, an American citizen announced Saturday that he was being released from more than nine months of imprisonment by a Shiite militia that for years targeted U.S. troops....
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