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Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

Iran's top leader urges high turnout in elections

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation amid the nuclear standoff with the West....

Student hurt, man jailed in Ariz. school shooting

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities are working to determine what motivated a man to allegedly fire a rifle indiscriminately at a southeastern Arizona high school, injuring 17-year-old boy who was watching a baseball game....
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CA doc faces rare murder charges for prescriptions

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities allege the doctor passed out prescriptions for drugs like Xanax and OxyContin, Vicodin and Adderall, at a rate of 25 per day for three years, with only cursory patient examinations and a minimum of questions....
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Israeli PM probed on luxury trips abroad

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's state comptroller has questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegations of taking lavish, privately paid trips abroad while serving in public office....

Oil boom and a kidnapping alter Montana town

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....
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Oil boom and a kidnapping alter Montana town

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....
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Everest hero highlights flood threat in Himalayas

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
TATOPANI, Nepal (AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm....

CA doc faces rare murder charges for prescriptions

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities allege she passed out prescriptions for drugs like Xanax and OxyContin, Vicodin and Adderall, at a rate of 25 per day for three years, with only cursory patient examinations and a minimum of questions....
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Australian PM axes rival's supporter from ministry

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pulled a veteran politician out of retirement and named him foreign minister Friday in place of Kevin Rudd who tried to oust her during a chaotic, short-lived rebellion in the ruling Labor Party....

Australian PM axes rival's supporter from ministry

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pulled a veteran politician out of retirement and named him foreign minister Friday in place of Kevin Rudd who tried to oust her during a chaotic, short-lived rebellion in the ruling Labor Party....

Family, students mourns man's death in Iraq school

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
COSMOPOLIS, Wash. (AP) -- Jeremiah Small spent six years teaching at a private Christian school in northern Iraq, sharing his love of history, literature and Jesus with the primarily Muslim students in his classes. He didn't worry about his safety, even if his family in Washington state did....
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Family, students mourns man's death in Iraq school

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
COSMOPOLIS, Wash. (AP) -- Jeremiah Small spent six years teaching at a private Christian school in northern Iraq, sharing his love of history, literature and Jesus with the primarily Muslim students in his classes. He didn't worry about his safety, even if his family in Washington state did....
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Family, students mourns man's death in Iraq school

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:36
COSMOPOLIS, Wash. (AP) -- Jeremiah Small spent six years teaching at a private Christian school in northern Iraq, sharing his love of history, literature and Jesus with the primarily Muslim students in his classes. He didn't worry about his safety, even if his family in Washington state did....
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