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Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is announcing new mortgage relief for members of the military and veterans as well as homeowners with government-insured loans. The initiatives are the latest administration attempt to help borrowers struggling under a depressed housing market....

Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is announcing new mortgage relief for members of the military and veterans as well as homeowners with government-insured loans. The initiatives are the latest administration attempt to help borrowers struggling under a depressed housing market....

Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is announcing new mortgage relief for members of the military and veterans as well as homeowners with government-insured loans. The initiatives are the latest administration attempt to help borrowers struggling under a depressed housing market....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Obama is announcing new mortgage relief for members of the military and veterans as well as homeowners with government-insured loans. The initiatives are the latest administration attempt to help borrowers struggling under a depressed housing market....

Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was convicted Tuesday on all but one of the 14 counts he faced for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $7 billion in massive Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ex-police chief in riots warning

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
Riots could erupt if police cut ties with journalists after the phone-hacking scandal, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens tells the Leveson Inquiry.
Categories: BBC, News

Wishing for a Reagan at a Super Tuesday precinct

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
At a Super Tuesday church precinct in Fayetteville, Ga., businessman Glenn Valencia crisply assessed the pros and cons of Republican presidential candidates in a way that could make Mitt Romney swoon....

Analysis: Putin faces steep challenge in protests

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
MOSCOW (AP) -- The urban professionals who have risen up against Vladimir Putin are the very people he needs to move Russia forward....

'A third of schools must improve'

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
More than a third of schools in England were rated not good enough by the schools watchdog, Ofsted, during the last three months of 2011.
Categories: BBC, News

Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

HOUSTON — Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years.

A day after telling U.S. District Judge David ...

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the busiest day of the Republican race for president, but this Super Tuesday probably won't settle much....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the busiest day of the Republican race for president, but this Super Tuesday probably won't settle much....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the busiest day of the Republican race for president, but this Super Tuesday probably won't settle much....

Israeli PM meets U.S. lawmakers

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
A day after meeting with President Barack Obama about the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. lawmakers Tuesday to emphasize his country's urgent fears.
Categories: CNN, News

Romney: Real change is on the way

CNN - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
Mitt Romney used one of President Obama's lines in addressing his supporters after winning the Massachusetts GOP primary.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Opinion: Nuclear reactors still vulnerable

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
Dave Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is dragging its heels implementing key recommendations for reactor safety prompted by the Fukushima disaster.
Categories: CNN, News

3 things to watch on Super Tuesday

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
Results in Ohio and elsewhere may add clarity to one of the most volatile GOP races in generations. FULL STORY
Categories: CNN, News

GOPers have strong words on Iran

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
In speeches Tuesday before a powerful pro-Israel lobby group, Republican presidential hopefuls promised a stronger line against Iran and a closer relationship with Israel if elected.
Categories: CNN, News

Rights group urges Libya to revoke speech law

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Human Rights Watch urged the new government in Libya Saturday to revoke a law that criminalizes glorifying the former dictator Moammar Gadhafi or spreading "propaganda" that insults or endangers the state....

Avalanche buries village in northeast Afghanistan

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 20:20
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Rescuers shoveled through deep snow Tuesday searching for victims of an avalanche that destroyed a village of 200 people in northeastern Afghanistan, authorities said. Thirty-seven people have been confirmed dead, but authorities fear the death toll will rise....
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