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Romney pads delegate lead with Super Tuesday wins

AP - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney padded his lead in the race for delegates Tuesday by winning Republican presidential contests in six states....

GOP senators fail to reverse birth control rule

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama's order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives....
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GOP senators fail to reverse birth control rule

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama's order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives....
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VIDEO: What impact are Greek austerity cuts having?

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
As more cutbacks come into effect in Greece, what impact is the austerity programme having on people's lives
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Ohio cops: Adopted boy shook when asked about sex

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
TROY, Ohio (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy shook when asked about being prostituted to two other men by an adoptive father who regularly had sex with him, according to police, who said the boy was fearful of talking because he didn't want to be taken from his home or separated from his new siblings....
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7 American pro-democracy workers fly out of Egypt

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
CAIRO (AP) -- Seven Americans on trial over charges their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt Thursday after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave before a travel ban was imposed....

7 American pro-democracy workers fly out of Egypt

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
CAIRO (AP) -- Seven Americans on trial over charges their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt Thursday after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave before a travel ban was imposed....

VIDEO: Elections in China protest village

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
Elections are due to take place in a village in southern China where protests took place 3 months ago
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'Black Madam' arrested in bad buttocks injections

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A woman who calls herself the "Black Madam" could face charges in the death of a London tourist who received illegal buttocks-enhancement injections last year in a Philadelphia hotel, police said Thursday....
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Close call as Jeep drives onto runways

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
Air traffic controllers at the Philadelphia International Airport had to scramble to avoid an accident Thursday after spotting a Jeep on a runway where a passenger plane was coming in to land.
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VIDEO: Sarkozy hides in bar to avoid protest

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
Hundreds of angry protesters have booed French President Nicolas Sarkozy, forcing him to take shelter in a bar as he campaigned in the Basque country ahead of April's presidential election.
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Fire tackled near power station

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
A "significant fire" in a building near a power station in West Sussex is being tackled by firefighters.
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Snowe's exit casts spotlight on divided Senate

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In many ways, Thursday encapsulated why the Senate is failing to live up to its aspiration to be the world's "greatest deliberative body" and why Maine Republican Olympia Snowe is bailing out of the institution in the prime of her career....
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Conservative 'happy warrior' Breitbart dead at 43

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative journalist, Internet pioneer and provocateur who helped reshape the media landscape with tenacious and original political style, died early Thursday after collapsing on the street near his Los Angeles home. He was 43.

His passing was announced through a posting on his extensive online news empire ...

NJ builds cover-up case in webcam spying trial

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A Rutgers University police officer told jurors Thursday that he knocked on the door of a dorm room shortly before 10 p.m. on Sept. 22, 2010, for a well-being check on one of the residents, Tyler Clementi....
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Humperdinck is UK Eurovision act

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
British crooner Engelbert Humperdinck is to represent the UK at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, it has been announced.
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Criticism grows over NYPD's Muslim spying

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New York City's Police Department is facing mounting criticism of its secret surveillance of Muslims across the Northeast, with ACLU chapters and numerous other groups demanding an investigation and New Jersey's governor accusing the NYPD of arrogantly acting as if "their jurisdiction is the world."...
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Syria videos: 2 Western journalists buried in Homs

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
BEIRUT (AP) -- Two Western journalists killed in the central Syrian city of Homs last week were buried in a cemetery in the embattled neighborhood where they died, according to activist videos posted online Thursday....

Teen charged as juvenile in Ohio school shooting

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- A teenager was charged Thursday with killing three students in a school shooting, the first step in proceedings that could see him charged as an adult and facing the possibility of life without parole if convicted....
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Q&A: Surprise and skepticism over US-NKorea deal

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 22:58
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Surprise and skepticism met the announcement that North Korea would freeze most nuclear activities in exchange for food aid from the United States....
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