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Super Tuesday voters assess pros and cons of field

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) -- Voters at Super Tuesday precincts drew a composite sketch, of sorts, of the Republican candidate they'd most like to have to challenge President Barack Obama in the fall. He'd possess Mitt Romney's economic cred, Rick Santorum's heartfelt conservatism and Newt Gingrich's intellect....

Authorities: 2 dead at Jacksonville high school

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A man who was fired from a private school on Tuesday returned to campus with a gun hidden in a guitar case and shot the headmistress to death before committing suicide, authorities said....
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Gas stations running dry as Brazil truckers strike

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Sao Paulo's 2,000 gas stations are rapidly running out of fuel as a strike by truck drivers who haul gas in South America's largest city entered a second day Tuesday, according to business representatives....

Gas stations running dry as Brazil truckers strike

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Sao Paulo's 2,000 gas stations are rapidly running out of fuel as a strike by truck drivers who haul gas in South America's largest city entered a second day Tuesday, according to business representatives....

'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' composer dies

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
LONDON (AP) -- How do you sum up the work of songwriter Robert B. Sherman? Try one word: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."...

LA investment scam defendant dies in French jail

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A man charged in Los Angeles with running a $228 million real estate investment scam has died in a French prison....
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Prince Harry runs with Usain Bolt in Jamaica

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- It wasn't much of a race, but then it really couldn't have been as the world's fastest man and Britain's Prince Harry met up on a track Tuesday in the Jamaican capital....

Iran and 6 powers may progress at nuke talks

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
ISTANBUL (AP) -- After years of failure, Iran and the six world powers may finally be able to revive nuclear negotiations when they meet again Saturday, each by offering concessions the other side keenly seeks....

Obama escalates election fight in Ohio, Virginia

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In campaign mode for months, President Barack Obama is making his quest for a second term official with rallies in Ohio and Virginia while casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping protector of the rich....
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Romney, GOP rivals vie in 10 Super Tuesday states

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The marathon race at a crossroads, Mitt Romney and his Republican rivals battled coast-to-coast in a Super Tuesday showdown across 10 states for more than 400 delegates - by far the busiest day of the campaign for the party's presidential nomination....
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Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Eastern Libya pulls away from central government

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- Tribal leaders and militia commanders declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semiautonomous state on Tuesday, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a "dangerous" conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi....

Financier Stanford convicted in $7 billion fraud

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
HOUSTON (AP) -- 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....
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India's ruling Congress party loses key state poll

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's governing Congress party was badly beaten in a key state election Tuesday, a sharp rebuke that could cripple the already embattled national government over the final two years of its term....

India's ruling Congress party loses key state poll

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- India's governing Congress party was badly beaten in a key state election Tuesday, a sharp rebuke that could cripple the already embattled national government over the final two years of its term....

Analysis: Putin faces steep challenge in protests

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
MOSCOW (AP) -- The urban professionals who have risen up against Vladimir Putin are the very people he needs to move Russia forward....

Analysis: From Israel, urgings of caution on Iran

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces significant pressure at home to coordinate with the United States in any attack against Iran's nuclear program, despite his public insistence on Israel's right to act alone....

Oregon health care picks up where Obama left off

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 01:46
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Pregnant with her seventh child and desperate to kick a meth addiction, Madeline Hutchinson turned to a program from the local Medicaid provider that connected her with a mentor and other support that she says helped her get off drugs....
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