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Maldives leader in 'quit' pledge

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
The president of the Maldives tells the BBC he will step down if an independent inquiry finds he was involved in a coup earlier this year.
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Obama gets grief for saying private sector 'fine'

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared Friday that "the private sector is doing fine," drawing instant criticism from Republicans who said it showed a lack of understanding of the nation's economic woes. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney responded, "Is he really that out of touch?"...

Authorities: Woman gambled grandson's college fund

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
A 73-year-old woman has been found in Louisiana after being charged with stealing and gambling away $97,000 from a trust fund for her grandson's college education, authorities said, but she may never return to Indiana for prosecution....
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US gen apologizes for Afghan deaths in airstrike

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
PATROL BASE PUL-I-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan offered a somber apology on Friday in an eastern province where officials say 18 civilians - half of them children - were killed in a coalition airstrike this week....

Infowars Exclusive: Lord Monckton’s Research Investigates Obama’s Forged Birth Certificate

TruthNews.US - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
Infowars.com | Lord Monckton provides Infowars exclusively with an in-depth research document he plans to forward to his fellow hereditary peers concerning Obama's forged birth certificate.

Ambulance 'regret' over knee wait

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
The Welsh Ambulance Service says it regrets taking more than three hours to reach a pensioner who was lying on wet decking with a fractured kneecap.
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Rift over political spending divides huge AFSCME

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A huge public employee union is choosing a new leader this month in a contest that is turning into a broader debate on how its 1.3 million members' money is spent on politics....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

6 powers, Iran, remain split on nuclear issues

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
VIENNA (AP) -- Iran and six world powers seeking to coax Tehran into curbing its nuclear activities appear to be coming to talks later this month without resolving the differences that scuttled previous rounds, according to recent letters exchanged between the two sides....

Wealthy Texas woman faces child porn charges

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
DALLAS (AP) -- A wealthy Texas woman married to an attorney has been charged with collecting and trading child pornography online in what experts say is a rare case of a woman being caught up in such activity....
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Veteran Pa. judge sits at center of Sandusky storm

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- He muscled the Jerry Sandusky case to trial in a breakneck seven months and navigated through dozens of pretrial motions and complicated grand jury secrecy issues. In two days, he managed to seat a jury in a case that has attracted worldwide publicity....
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No criminal charges in Conn. Christmas fatal fire

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Criminal charges won't be filed in a Christmas morning house fire that killed three girls and their grandparents, a Connecticut prosecutor said Friday....
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Obama prods Europe to fix economies _ for US' sake

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Europe's economic crisis could send shock waves roaring across the Atlantic that would drag down the fragile U.S. economy and threaten President Barack Obama's hopes for a second term. The president demonstrated Friday just how deeply he's worried about that - and how little he can do to prevent it....

Red Cross: 8 killed in north Nigeria blast

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber blew up his car just outside the police headquarters in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing eight people, a Nigerian Red Cross report said Friday amid warnings that the situation in the city is worsening....

Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world....

Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world....

Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world....

Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world....

Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world....

Obama: Congress, Europe must stem economic crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 14:52
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The economy at risk, President Barack Obama accused Republicans on Friday of pursuing policies that would weaken the U.S. recovery. He simultaneously urged Europe's leaders to prevent an overseas debt crisis from dragging down the rest of the world....
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