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Ohioans in GOP swath give Santorum, Romney looks

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WEST CHESTER, Ohio (AP) -- Here, in a region rich with Republicans, GOP voters seem split between two camps. There are those delighted with Rick Santorum's emergence as an alternative to Mitt Romney and others who are struggling over whom to back in the party's volatile nomination fight....

Job creation driving highway bills in Congress

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lure of roads, bridges, buses and trains isn't enough anymore to drive an expensive transportation bill through Congress. So to round up votes, congressional leaders are pitching the bills as the hottest thing around these days: job generators....
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Obama signs insider trading ban by lawmakers

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday barring members of Congress, the president and thousands of federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job, calling it an embodiment of the fundamental American value of fair play....
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Saudi flexes Gulf grip with Bahrain 'union' plans

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- During a sermon last week at Bahrain's Grand Mosque, the pro-government prayer leader offered sweeping praise for one of the Arab Spring's counter-revolutions: Gulf rulers bonding together against dissent with powerful Saudi Arabia as their main guardian....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Super? Maybe not this time. But it is a Tuesday, one with the biggest payout of the Republican presidential primaries....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Super? Maybe not this time. But it is a Tuesday, one with the biggest payout of the Republican presidential primaries....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Super? Maybe not this time. But it is a Tuesday, one with the biggest payout of the Republican presidential primaries....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Super? Maybe not this time. But it is a Tuesday, one with the biggest payout of the Republican presidential primaries....

What's so super about Tuesday? 419 GOP delegates

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Super? Maybe not this time. But it is a Tuesday, one with the biggest payout of the Republican presidential primaries....

Japan's radiation cleanup is trial and error

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP) -- Workers in rubber boots chip at the frozen ground, scraping until they've removed the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) of radioactive soil from the yard of a single home. Total amount of waste gathered: roughly 60 tons....

AP source: Holder will address targeted killings

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil....
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AP source: Holder will address targeted killings

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Five months after the CIA sought out and killed an American-born cleric and al-Qaida operative in Yemen, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to explain how the U.S. can legally kill U.S. citizens on foreign soil....
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Israeli leaders praise Obama's AIPAC speech

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli leaders say President Barack Obama's speech on Iran's nuclear program is an unprecedented show of support for the Jewish state....

EPA heightens scrutiny of Pa.'s Marcellus Shale

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers....
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Deportation a risk in Rutgers webcam trial

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Jurors deliberating in the hate-crime trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of webcam spying against his roommate won't be deciding just whether he'll go to prison - they also could indirectly determine whether he's deported to his native India....
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Issue not aired in Rutgers webcam trial: Suicide

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- For all the attention Tyler Clementi's suicide got, it has a place only at the edge of the invasion-privacy trial of the roommate who's accused of using a webcam to spy on his intimate encounter with a man....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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AP Exclusive: Obama's transgender ex-nanny outcast

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

AP Exclusive: Obama's transgender ex-nanny outcast

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 17:35
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....
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