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Gingrich stakes his campaign on old Georgia home

AP - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
ATLANTA (AP) -- Newt Gingrich's political career is coming full circle: The state that nourished his rise to House speaker could strike a fatal blow to his presidential ambitions - even by his own admission....

Ky. woman sentenced for killing expectant mother

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for slaying a pregnant acquaintance and cutting her baby boy alive from her womb....
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Ky. woman sentenced for killing expectant mother

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for slaying a pregnant acquaintance and cutting her baby boy alive from her womb....
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Russian authorities probe vote-rigging videos

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top investigative agency has launched a probe regarding videos on Internet that purport to show fraud during the country's presidential election, even though it hasn't taken place yet....

First vote looms on Obama birth control policy

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is considering GOP legislation, steeped in election-year politics,to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on birth control coverage....
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Deadline looms for charges in Ohio school shooting

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- The deadline to file charges in a fatal Ohio high school shooting loomed as students still reeling from the slaying of three teenagers planned a march to return to their school....
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CA walloped as snow falls over parts of north US

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
A late season storm is bringing heavy snows to California's high country, a welcome influx after an especially dry winter. But snow storms are also creating avalanche conditions in Colorado and forcing some schools to close in New York....
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2 American troops killed in Afghan shooting

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Two American soldiers were killed Thursday in a shooting by an Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher at a joint base in southern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest in a series of deaths as anti-Americanism rises following the burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers....

Russia's artists enter political fray in elections

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
PERM, Russia (AP) -- In Vladimir Putin's Russia, artists have done art and left politics to the politicians....

Gingrich stakes his campaign on old Georgia home

AP - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
ATLANTA (AP) -- Newt Gingrich's political career is coming full circle: The state that nourished his rise to House speaker could strike a fatal blow to his presidential ambitions - even by his own admission....

UK's John Major: Murdoch tried to change policy

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister John Major said Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch tried to influence his government's dealings with the European Union, even hinting that the politician could lose the support of the media mogul's newspapers if he didn't change direction....

Euro unemployment hits new high in January

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
LONDON (AP) -- Mass unemployment in Greece and Spain, where nearly half of those under 25 are out of work, sent the jobless rate across the 17-nation eurozone on Thursday to its highest level since the euro was established in 1999....

Q&A: Surprise and skepticism over US-NKorea deal

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Surprise and skepticism met the announcement that North Korea would freeze most nuclear activities in exchange for food aid from the United States....

American gym teacher dies in north Iraq shooting

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- An American gym teacher at a school in the northern Iraqi Kurdish region was killed Thursday when a student in a crowded classroom pulled out a gun, shot the teacher and then as his terrified classmates fled the room, shot himself, officials and eyewitnesses said....

Under lockdown: Life inside dissident Tibetan town

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
ABA, China (AP) -- China's stifling lockdown of this Tibetan town has not only been about patrolling its sleepy streets, but also policing the minds of a community at the center of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule....

Under lockdown: Life inside dissident Tibetan town

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
ABA, China (AP) -- China's stifling lockdown of this Tibetan town has not only been about patrolling its sleepy streets, but also policing the minds of a community at the center of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule....

Under lockdown: Life inside dissident Tibetan town

AP - World News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
ABA, China (AP) -- China's stifling lockdown of this Tibetan town has not only been about patrolling its sleepy streets, but also policing the minds of a community at the center of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule....

Government eyes popular malt liquor Four Loko

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A carbonated brew guzzled on college campuses is the focus of an intense write-in campaign urging federal regulators to take some buzz out of a sweet alcoholic drink sometimes referred to as "blackout in a can."...
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Government eyes popular malt liquor Four Loko

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A carbonated brew guzzled on college campuses is the focus of an intense write-in campaign urging federal regulators to take some buzz out of a sweet alcoholic drink sometimes referred to as "blackout in a can."...
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Obama signs bill reauthorizing Export-Import Bank

AP - Politics - Tue, 2024-11-26 20:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed legislation that renews the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years and increases the bank's lending cap to $140 billion from the current $100 billion. The bank is the government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales....
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