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2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
PARIS (AP) -- The long and treacherous journey home ended Friday for two French journalists trapped for nine days in a besieged Syrian city - an experience one called a "non-stop nightmare." After landing outside Paris where the French president and loved ones awaited them, one was carried from the plane on a stretcher, while the other smiled joyfully and punched his fist in the air....

2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
PARIS (AP) -- The long and treacherous journey home ended Friday for two French journalists trapped for nine days in a besieged Syrian city - an experience one called a "non-stop nightmare." After landing outside Paris where the French president and loved ones awaited them, one was carried from the plane on a stretcher, while the other smiled joyfully and punched his fist in the air....

2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
PARIS (AP) -- The long and treacherous journey home ended Friday for two French journalists trapped for nine days in a besieged Syrian city - an experience one called a "non-stop nightmare." After landing outside Paris where the French president and loved ones awaited them, one was carried from the plane on a stretcher, while the other smiled joyfully and punched his fist in the air....

2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
PARIS (AP) -- The long and treacherous journey home ended Friday for two French journalists trapped for nine days in a besieged Syrian city - an experience one called a "non-stop nightmare." After landing outside Paris where the French president and loved ones awaited them, one was carried from the plane on a stretcher, while the other smiled joyfully and punched his fist in the air....

2 French journalists who escaped Syria return home

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
PARIS (AP) -- The long and treacherous journey home ended Friday for two French journalists trapped for nine days in a besieged Syrian city - an experience one called a "non-stop nightmare." After landing outside Paris where the French president and loved ones awaited them, one was carried from the plane on a stretcher, while the other smiled joyfully and punched his fist in the air....

Authorities: Ind. tornadoes cause 'extreme' damage

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- Tornadoes have left widespread damage in southern Indiana and a sheriff's official says at least one town of about 1,900 people is "completely gone."...
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Murder charges against CA doc seen as warning

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The district attorney who filed murder charges against a California doctor in prescription drug deaths of three patients says the case is highly unusual but may serve as a warning shot to unethical physicians who become pill pushers....
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Storms wreck Ind. towns, flatten houses elsewhere

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
ATHENS, Ala. (AP) -- Powerful storms stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes flattened buildings in several states, wrecked two Indiana towns and bred anxiety across a wide swath of the country in the second powerful tornado outbreak this week....
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Oregon health overhaul makes financial promises

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a bill to implement his plan to redesign health care in the state....
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Soaring cost estimate prompts health law doubts

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cost estimates for a key portion of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year's budget, and a senior Republican lawmaker on Friday demanded an explanation....
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Bolivians fight over quinoa land

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Bolivian authorities say at least 30 people have been injured in a fight between two communities over land for growing quinoa, the Andean "supergrain" whose popularity with worldwide foodies has caused its price to soar....

Chavez says he's recovering quickly from surgery

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he's recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba....

Crash kills 3 sorority spring-breakers in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- A wrong-way driver slammed head-on Friday into a car full of sorority sisters who were caravanning to an airport for a spring break trip to the Dominican Republic, killing three of the young women and the other driver....
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No charges in bear attack inquiry

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
Organisers of an Arctic expedition in which a Wiltshire boy was killed by a polar bear will face no charges.
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Wash. state a major player in GOP race

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
Forty delegates are up for grabs when Washington state holds its Republican presidential caucuses on Saturday, but much more than that -- a quick shot of momentum going into Super Tuesday is also at stake.
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Police arrest man in carjacking of WWII vet

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
DETROIT (AP) -- A man suspected in connection with the daylight attack and carjacking of an 86-year-old World War II veteran at a busy Detroit gas station was arrested Friday, police said....
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FACT CHECK: You can't have it all, sorry

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Is there any impulse greater in politics than to promise people the sun and the moon?...

Rutgers witness: Web cam aimed at bed

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
The man Tyler Clementi was intimate with just days before his suicide took the stand Friday, telling jurors that he had noticed a web camera aimed at Clementi's bed.
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Ohio investigates adoption agency amid rape case

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Officials said Friday that they're investigating a private adoption agency that helped place children with a man now accused of raping three boys in his care and prostituting one of them....
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Iran leader urges strong `message' from elections

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 04:23
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader told voters it was their patriotic duty to cast ballots in parliamentary elections Friday to send a message of national unity during a "sensitive period" in the showdown with the West over Tehran's nuclear program....
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