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Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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 - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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....
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Obama announces new housing initiatives

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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 - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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....
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Wishing for a Reagan at a Super Tuesday precinct

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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 - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
MOSCOW (AP) -- The urban professionals who have risen up against Vladimir Putin are the very people he needs to move Russia forward....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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 - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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 - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's the busiest day of the Republican race for president, but this Super Tuesday probably won't settle much....

Rights group urges Libya to revoke speech law

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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 - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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....

Yemen reels from army's defeat by al-Qaida

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- The slaying of nearly 200 Yemeni soldiers by al-Qaida militants in a brazen weekend attack poses the first major test to the country's newly elected president, who has vowed to crush the terror network and purge military commanders still loyal to his predecessor....

'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' composer dies

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
LONDON (AP) -- How do you sum up the work of songwriter Robert B. Sherman? Try one word: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."...

Prince Harry runs with Usain Bolt in Jamaica

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
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....

Santorum on defensive as race turns to Louisiana

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
WEST MONROE, La. (AP) -- Facing heightened pressure to revive his presidential bid, Rick Santorum was forced to explain another apparent misstep as he courted Louisiana voters Friday, the eve of a critical contest in a Republican nomination battle that increasingly favors Mitt Romney....

Santorum huddles with conservatives

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum met privately with conservative leaders on Thursday to craft plans to try to stop Mitt Romney's march to the nomination. Pressuring rival Newt Gingrich to leave the race was part of their overall strategy....

GOP hopefuls brandish their pro-Israel credentials

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican presidential hopefuls brandished their pro-Israel credentials, accusing President Barack Obama of weakness with Iran, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked Mideast strategy with congressional leaders....

Romney says he'll do 'opposite' on Israel

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Standing in front of his campaign tour bus, Mitt Romney on Saturday told religious conservatives he would do "the opposite" of what President Barack Obama has done on Israel....

To some working poor in India, home is parking lot

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
NEW DELHI (AP) -- There is almost no movement in the pre-dawn cold, when the winter fog sits low over the old city and the only light comes from distant street lamps. The parking lot is silent, except for the occasional hacking cough....

'Small World' songwriter Robert Sherman dies at 86

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 00:29
LONDON (AP) -- Robert B. Sherman, one half of the prolific, award-winning pair of brothers who penned instantly memorable songs for "Mary Poppins," "The Jungle Book" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" - as well as the most-played tune on Earth, "It's a Small World (After All)" - has died. He was 86....
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