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US-Myanmar search for WWII MIAs could improve ties

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
LAIZA, Myanmar (AP) -- Forced to skim the ground under a 100-foot (30-meter) cloud ceiling, fighting rain and wretched visibility, the C-47 Skytrain probably proved an easy target for Japanese gunners. Packed with ammunition, the aircraft exploded, plunging into a jungle that swallowed it up for 57 years....

Residents of NH town vote to rename Jew Pond

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
MONT VERNON, N.H. (AP) -- Residents of a rural New Hampshire town voted Tuesday night to rename a fishing and skating spot that's been called Jew Pond since the 1920s....
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Cuba cardinal gives TV address about papal visit

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban authorities granted Havana's Roman Catholic cardinal a rare chance to address the nation Tuesday night on state-controlled television about the imminent arrival of Pope Benedict XVI....

Delegates split 3 ways in Alabama, Mississippi

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum picked up at least 27 delegates Tuesday after winning the Alabama and Mississippi Republican presidential primaries....

Wis. teen details alleged abuse in police video

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin police video released Tuesday shows a 15-year-old girl in an oversized sweat shirt clutching her stuffed bunny, occasionally dabbing her eyes and softly describing years of alleged abuse and starvation by her parents....
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Colombia sends suspect in singer slay to Guatemala

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A Costa Rican man who authorities say may have links to Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel was being expelled to Guatemala on Tuesday in connection with last year's fatal shooting of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral....

Santorum wins AL, MS in GOP fight for the South

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum has swept the GOP's fight for the South, winning Alabama and Mississippi....

Santorum wins AL, MS in GOP fight for the South

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum has swept the GOP's fight for the South, winning Alabama and Mississippi....

Santorum wins AL, MS in GOP fight for the South

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum has swept the GOP's fight for the South, winning Alabama and Mississippi....

Santorum wins AL, MS in GOP fight for the South

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum has swept the GOP's fight for the South, winning Alabama and Mississippi....

Army officer charged with harassment at Wash. base

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- A 20-year Army officer in Washington state threatened to blow up the state Capitol and kill his superior officer, his estranged wife and his girlfriend, authorities said Tuesday, adding scrutiny to the troubled base of a soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting spree....
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Taliban-linked Afghan convicted on drug charges

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Afghan man linked to the Taliban who was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world was convicted Tuesday on charges of importing and distributing heroin and for narco-terrorism, federal officials said....
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A look at military justice in Afghan killing case

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military has already held a probable cause hearing for the soldier suspected in the weekend killings of 16 Afghan villagers, but the military still has not released his name or said when charges would be filed....
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State plan for Detroit finances would shift power

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
DETROIT (AP) -- State officials aiming to put cash-strapped Detroit on a strict financial diet delivered an ultimatum Tuesday with a plan to shift political power, consolidate public utilities and shrink city staff and salaries....
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State plan for Detroit finances would shift power

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
DETROIT (AP) -- State officials aiming to put cash-strapped Detroit on a strict financial diet delivered an ultimatum Tuesday with a plan to shift political power, consolidate public utilities and shrink city staff and salaries....
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State plan for Detroit finances would shift power

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
DETROIT (AP) -- State officials aiming to put cash-strapped Detroit on a strict financial diet delivered an ultimatum Tuesday with a plan to shift political power, consolidate public utilities and shrink city staff and salaries....
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Defense lawyer: NYC temple plot case misguided

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawyer for an Algerian native accused of planning to blow up synagogues said Tuesday that her client was a mentally unstable man targeted by the New York Police Department as part of its "unconstitutional and illegal" surveillance of Muslims....
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Defense lawyer: NYC temple plot case misguided

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawyer for an Algerian native accused of planning to blow up synagogues said Tuesday that her client was a mentally unstable man targeted by the New York Police Department as part of its "unconstitutional and illegal" surveillance of Muslims....
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Journalist recounts fleeing Syrian city under fire

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
ANTAKYA, Turkey (AP) -- Explosions illuminated the night as we ran, hoping to escape Syria after nearly three weeks of covering a conflict that the government seems determined to keep the world from seeing. Tank shells slammed into the city streets behind us, snipers' bullets whizzed by our heads and the rebels escorting us were nearly out of ammunition....

'Homeless Hotspot' stunt stirs debate at SXSW

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-05-12 10:48
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A charitable marketing program that paid homeless people to carry Wi-Fi signals at South By Southwest has drawn widespread debate at the annual Austin conference and around the country....
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