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5 Irish immigrants re-buried in Pa. cemetery

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
BALA CYNWYD, Pa. (AP) -- The remains of five Irish laborers who researchers believe were murdered in 1832 while building a Pennsylvania railroad received a dignified re-interment Friday, more than 3,000 miles from their homeland and nearly two centuries after their first anonymous burials....
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Romney's victories leave GOP leaders unimpressed

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday victories elicited a collective yawn from his party's superdelegates....

NKorea vows to keep its nuke promises: senator

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- A prominent U.S. senator has met with North Korea's nuclear envoy who promised to live up to commitments made in an agreement last week with the United States....

After quakes, Ohio plans tough gas-drilling rules

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A dozen earthquakes in northeastern Ohio were almost certainly induced by injection of gas-drilling wastewater into the earth, state regulators said Friday as they announced a series of tough new rules for drillers....
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Greek radical leftist insists on canceling bailout

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's bailout conditions are so catastrophic for the country they must be rejected, the radical left-wing party leader who has a strong chance of winning the country's critical election this weekend insisted Tuesday....

Greece secures biggest debt deal in history

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

Greece secures biggest debt deal in history

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

Judge stabbed, officer shot in Wash.

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
SWAT teams in western Washington state were looking for a man who fled a courthouse Friday after a judge was stabbed in the neck and a female officer was shot, officials said.
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Israeli deputy FM: Arab demos 'diplomatic terror'

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's deputy foreign minister says an annual protest Palestinians mounted over the weekend is "political terrorism."...

Paul: 'We will no longer spend resources'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a favorite of tea partyers, effectively ended his presidential campaign Monday but urged his fervent supporters to continue working at the state party level to cause havoc for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney....

Paul seeks Kan. delegates, 'the more the merrier'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is calling Kansas "a fertile field" as he pitches his libertarian views the day before state caucuses for delegates to the party's national convention....

Feds: NYC hacker also involved with drug dealing

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
NEW YORK (AP) -- The American computer hacker who shocked other Internet saboteurs by becoming an FBI informant didn't just break the law on the Web: He also carried a gun and was involved in drug dealing....
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Obama: New jobs report a sign economy on rebound

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
PRINCE GEORGE, Va. (AP) -- President Barack Obama applauded another burst of job growth Friday as proof the economy is rebounding on his watch from a disastrous recession. Bidding for re-election, Obama warned factory workers and campaign donors that Republicans would offer only the policies "that got us into this mess."...
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Man jailed for garlic import scam

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
The head of Ireland's largest fruit and vegetable producers is jailed for six years for a 1.6m euros (£1.3m) scam involving the importation of garlic.
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Romney keeps media at bay as he sticks to script

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Mitt Romney is trying harder than ever these days to stay on script - and keep his traveling national press corps at arms' length....

Papers debate 'Doonesbury' series on abortion law

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A national syndicate will offer replacement "Doonesbury" comic strips to newspapers that don't want to run an upcoming series that uses graphic imagery to lampoon a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, officials said Friday....
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Opinion: Stop beating drums of war

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
President Barack Obama's rebuke of Republicans who are "beating the drums of war" in encouraging the United States to take military action against Iran should be targeted not just toward those critics but also, and more important, toward the Israeli government.
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Vatican seeks to explain US money laundering tag

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Vatican on Friday sought to explain its presence for the first time on a U.S. list of countries that are a potential hub for money laundering, saying it was only natural to be included given its recent efforts to conform to international standards....

Foden targets wins for Lancaster

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
Ben Foden urges England to win their final two Six Nations games and help Stuart Lancaster to be appointed as permanent coach.
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Ala. immigration law puts school play on hold

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-06-08 04:38
PELHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigration may keep Charlie Brown and Snoopy from performing in a high school musical....
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