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Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business....

Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business....

Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business....

Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business....

Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is going out of business....

Romney: Obama fails to protect gun owners' rights

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama wants to reshape the Supreme Court to soften gun rights, among other things....

Ill. high court revives suit over assault-weapon ban

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gun-rights advocates scored a victory Thursday when the Illinois Supreme Court decided to let a challenge to Cook County's assault-weapons ban proceed, even though two lower courts had tossed it out.

The high court, in a unanimous ruling, said it wants the trial court to hear ...

Obama believes women should be admitted to Augusta

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama believes women should be admitted as members to the all-male Augusta National, home of the Masters golf tournament....

Gingrich's think tank files for bankruptcy

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
ATLANTA (AP) -- The health care think tank created by Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has filed for bankruptcy....

Conn. on track to be 17th state sans death penalty

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The state Senate voted Thursday to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut, a state that has executed only one prisoner in a half-century and is now on track to join a national trend away from capital punishment.

In an early morning vote that followed more than 10 ...

U.S. to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use cannon fire to sink a derelict Japanese ship dislodged by last year's massive tsunami.

The shrimping vessel, which has no lights or communications systems, was floating about 195 miles south of Sitka in the Gulf of Alaska on Thursday ...

Obama administration heeds judges' health care order

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
The Justice Department obeyed a federal appeals court's unusual order Thursday in a legal and political spat over the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.
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Toobin: Court's request a 'disgrace'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
Jeffrey Toobin discusses a federal court's request that the Justice Dept explain Obama's SCOTUS health care comments.
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Obama taking on the courts?

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
Brian Todd reports on the public political battle between President Obama and the courts over the health care debate.
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W.Va. plans moment of silence to honor 29 miners

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin urged West Virginians to observe a moment of silence Thursday, starting at 3:01 p.m., to mark the second anniversary of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster and the deaths of 29 men.

The powerful April 5, 2010, explosion at the former Massey ...

Dissecting Romney, Obama claims

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
President Obama and Mitt Romney make claims on key issues. CNN's Wolf Blitzer separates the facts from the fiction.
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Mississippi bill restricts abortion providers

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
Mississippi lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would require any physician performing abortions in the state to be a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and to have admitting privileges at an area hospital.
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Brief Pa. pretrial hearing for Sandusky wraps up

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The judge overseeing Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse case says an ongoing secret grand jury investigation into the former Penn State assistant football coach is complicating preparations for his trial.

In a brief pretrial hearing Thursday, Judge John Cleland said he wouldn't issue a decision on a ...

Former Sen. McGovern hospitalized in Florida

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
Former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, 89, was admitted to a Florida hospital on Tuesday, CNN has confirmed.
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GOP version of DREAM Act holds promise

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-15 21:27
Ruben Navarrette says plan for a new approach on DREAM Act that gets illegal immigrant kids right with the law but denies citizenship is a commonsense way to break a stalemate, take step in the right direction
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