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Obama faces host of election-year constraints

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run for office again, especially if his party gains ground in congressional elections....

Obama faces host of election-year constraints

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run for office again, especially if his party gains ground in congressional elections....
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Obama faces host of election-year constraints

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run for office again, especially if his party gains ground in congressional elections....

Obama faces host of election-year constraints

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run for office again, especially if his party gains ground in congressional elections....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama faces host of election-year constraints

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Missile defense isn't the only area in which President Barack Obama will have "more flexibility" if he's re-elected. Immigration, the Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, gay marriage, tax policy and other issues could invite bold initiatives by a president who knows he will never run for office again, especially if his party gains ground in congressional elections....

Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public....

Poles talk about CIA prison, breaking silence

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public....

Syrian troops to stay in major cities

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
Syrian forces clashed with military defectors early Saturday morning, storming several neighborhoods and bombarding them with heavy gunfire, activists said.
Categories: CNN, News

There Obama goes again

As Ronald Reagan famously said, "There you go again."

Murray fears for Rangers' future

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
Paul Murray fears time is running out for Rangers' hopes of exiting administration as he firms up his takeover bid.
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Motorbike riding reaches new heights

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
Freestyle motorcross riders have been defying gravity with daring feats in the Masters of Dirt series in Manchester and London.
Categories: BBC, News

Clinton seeks tighter US-Gulf cooperation on Iran

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States seeks improved strategies with Arab Gulf states on maritime security and missile defense to counter the threat of Iran....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Clinton seeks tighter US-Gulf cooperation on Iran

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States seeks improved strategies with Arab Gulf states on maritime security and missile defense to counter the threat of Iran....

Cruise ship drifting after fire off Philippines

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A fire in the engine room crippled a luxury cruise liner with 1,000 people aboard, leaving it adrift far from shore in waters south of the Philippines, officials said Saturday....

Obama calls on Congress to pass 'Buffett Rule' tax

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to increase taxes on millionaires, reviving a proposal he first pitched last September that aims to draw sharp election-year lines between the president and the Republican opposition....

Polar bear cub makes debut in Germany

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
There's a new polar bear on the block -- meet Anori, half-sister to Knut, who made her public debut this week at Wuppertal Zoo in Germany.
Categories: CNN, News

3 winners, over 100 million Mega Millions losers

RED BUD, Ill. (AP) — The Mega Millions winners — at least three of them — stayed out of sight. The losers, who could number 100 million, had plenty to say Saturday about losing out on the world's largest-ever lottery jackpot and their dashed dreams of colossal wealth.

Journalists descended ...

New Titanic Belfast complex opens

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
The new Titanic Belfast tourism project is opened to the public after a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the first and deputy first ministers.
Categories: BBC, News

Hollywood & slime

After much drama and untold $1,000s in hair color: Lindsay Lohan is officially off probation. You have been warned.

Iraqi-American woman slain in US is buried in Iraq

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 12:37
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) -- An Iraqi-American woman found bludgeoned to death in her California home last week, with a threatening note left beside her body, was buried in her native Iraq on Saturday. Relatives wept uncontrollably by her graveside and her father asked God to extoll revenge on those responsible for her death....
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