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Emails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

Candy's Take: Why they keep running

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
I don't know if Newt Gingrich should, will or even is thinking about getting out of the presidential race. Ditto for Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. I do know there are practical, political and one very big human reason that candidates stay in races past the time many think they should get out.
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A political tip sheet for the rest of us

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Monday, March 26:...

A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath....

Titanic debris might yield answers

SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE — Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened that night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom ...

Millions paid in NYC firefighter bias case

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
A U.S. district judge ordered New York City to pay nearly $129 million in back-pay to firefighters who allege the city used an entrance exam that deliberately sought to keep African-Americans and Latino Americans off the force. The judge also ordered the FDNY to hire 293 black and Latino applicants.
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Report: Work needed to curb youth tobacco use

RICHMOND — More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. surgeon general's office said in a report released Thursday.

Almost 1 in 5 high-school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but the ...

Russia condemns ally Syria over massacre of 108

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
BEIRUT (AP) -- A weekend massacre of more than 100 people emerged as a potential turning point in the Syrian crisis Monday, galvanizing even staunch ally Russia to take an unusually hard line against President Bashar Assad's government....

Dad is blunt about missing daughter's double life

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
DENVER (AP) -- Investigators said the attractive single mom who vanished from western Colorado 4 1/2 years ago was running an escort service, but her father is more blunt....
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Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
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Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
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Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
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Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
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Hostage killers in Nigeria arrested

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
The suspected killers of Italian and British hostages who had been held in Nigeria have been arrested, an adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday in a statement, according to the government-run Nigerian Television Authority.
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Senate blocks bid to speed pipeline from Canada

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure from the White House, the Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday blocked a Republican bid to speed approval of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas....
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Grief of Japan's tsunami survivors

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
Year of change for Japan tsunami family who lost mother
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Santorum spending primary day at home with family

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Rick Santorum is spending early Tuesday with his family at their home near Washington as voters in Mississippi and Alabama weigh in on the Republican presidential field....

Police shootings prompt outrage in Jamaica

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Security personnel armed with M16s and machine guns manned roadblocks and detained dozens of young men Thursday as part of a crackdown in a Jamaican ghetto where a 13-year-old girl, two elderly men and three others were killed during reported shootouts between police and gunmen....

Police shootings prompt outrage in Jamaica

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-06-06 23:35
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Security personnel armed with M16s and machine guns manned roadblocks and detained dozens of young men Thursday as part of a crackdown in a Jamaican ghetto where a 13-year-old girl, two elderly men and three others were killed during reported shootouts between police and gunmen....
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