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VIDEO: Looters swoop after bus hits shop

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
Looters push past shocked bus passengers to grab jewellery, after the vehicle crashes into a pawnbrokers in Coventry city centre.
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Romney will pass on NCAA tournament predictions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mitt Romney clearly is not running to be the nation's top sports fan....

Romney will pass on NCAA tournament predictions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Mitt Romney clearly is not running to be the nation's top sports fan....

Terry rejects player power claims

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
Chelsea captain John Terry dismisses claims that player power was to blame for the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas.
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AP Enterprise: States allow pols to change votes

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Lawmakers in California's Assembly will hit the campaign trail this year, touting their votes on all manner of bills. Can we believe them? What they say may not be a true reflection of the stand they took when the bill was being debated....
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AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The AFL-CIO formally endorsed President Barack Obama's re-election bid Tuesday, saying it would mount a vast door-to-door effort for Democratic candidates in response to the flood of outside political money that conservative groups are pouring into the campaign....

AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Labor unions, saying they can't hope to compete with the new breed of conservative fundraising groups, plan to spend less money this year on specific candidates and political party organizations and more on door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and registration drives to help President Barack Obama and other Democrats....

AFL-CIO boosts ground support for Obama, Democrats

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The AFL-CIO formally endorsed President Barack Obama's re-election bid Tuesday, saying it would mount a vast door-to-door effort for Democratic candidates in response to the flood of outside political money that conservative groups are pouring into the campaign....

Polls give different views of NY Muslim program

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two polls of New Yorkers offered conflicting views Tuesday about the police department's gathering of intelligence on Muslims as it guards the city against another terrorist attack....
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Defense lawyer: NYC temple plot case misguided

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
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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Justice backs new category of secret gov't files

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the middle of Sunshine Week, when news organizations and advocacy groups promote government transparency, the Obama administration urged Congress on Tuesday to keep secret a whole new category of information even under the Freedom of Information Act....
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Authorities: NJ girl found in septic tank drowned

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- A toddler whose body was found inside a septic tank behind her home, just hours after being reported missing by her mother, died of accidental drowning, an autopsy showed Tuesday....
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Obama warns China against 'skirting the rules'

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned China Tuesday that it would not be allowed to gain a competitive advantage in world trade by "skirting the rules."...

Obama warns China against 'skirting the rules'

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned China Tuesday that it would not be allowed to gain a competitive advantage in world trade by "skirting the rules."...

Diplomat: Syria answers Annan on ending violence

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Syrian officials responded Tuesday to a number of concrete proposals by international envoy Kofi Annan on how to end the violence in their country, a U.N. diplomat said....

RBS and Lloyds to cut 1,900 jobs

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
Part state-owned banks RBS and Lloyds have announced they will cut 1,900 jobs between them as they reorganise.
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Senate ready to pass highway programs overhaul

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rare display of deal-making between Republicans and Democrats in a bitterly partisan election year, the Senate was poised Tuesday to pass an overhaul of highway and transit programs that would give states more flexibility in how they spend federal money and would step up the pace of road construction by shortening environmental reviews....
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Police: Nev. mom kills daughter, 6, with scissors

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A woman accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with scissors told police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an "evil" presence before the attack....
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Planned repeat C-sections 'safer'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
Women opting for a C-section after a previous Caesarean delivery are less likely to suffer severe complications, two studies suggest.
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Pinterest to alter profiles, add iPad app

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-06-13 11:53
You might excuse Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of photo-sharing site Pinterest, if he looks a little overwhelmed these days.
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