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Police: Body is likely doctor linked to NY slaying

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A body found in thick brush Friday morning is believed to be that of a special forces soldier-turned-trauma surgeon who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the killing of his ex-girlfriend at a hospital, police said....
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Calif. lawmakers set budget vote as deadline looms

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers huddled behind closed doors Friday as they prepared to vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit before they run up against a constitutional deadline and risk losing their pay....
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Egypt's Brotherhood pins hopes on presidency

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood pinned its hopes Friday on weekend elections to salvage its waning political fortunes, responding to a court order dissolving its power base in parliament by urging voters to support the Islamist group's candidate for president....

Romney kicks off bus tour across critical Ohio

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney kicked off his three-stop bus tour of Ohio by telling rain-soaked voters in the battleground state that the country is about to get "a little brighter."...

In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....

In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....
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In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election. They wanted to cut taxes and spending, put new limits on labor unions, crack down on illegal immigrants and give parents more alternatives to traditional public schools....

Calif. lawmakers set budget vote as deadline looms

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing their pay....

New Obama policy will spare some from deportation

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says his plan to stop deporting younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children will make the system "more fair, more efficient and more just."...

Draghi: up to politicians to fight eurozone crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- European Central Bank head Mario Draghi warned EU leaders that they should not wait for more emergency help from the central bank to solve the debt crisis rattling the region and instead make the political choices needed to strengthen the euro....

European leaders discuss continent's debt crisis

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
LONDON (AP) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron's office says European leaders have held a video conference on the continent's worsening debt crisis....

UK council lifts gag on 9-year-old food critic

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
LONDON (AP) -- A 9-year-old blogger won a food fight with authorities in her Scottish town Friday, after an online outcry prompted officials to lift a ban on posting photos of her school lunches....

US reveals accusations against Secret Service

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. government has revealed details of serious allegations against Secret Service agents and officers since 2004, including claims of involvement with prostitutes, leaking sensitive information, publishing pornography, sexual assault, illegal wiretaps, improper use of weapons and drunken behavior. It wasn't immediately clear how many of the accusations were confirmed to be true....
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After 21 years, Suu Kyi finally reaches Nobel home

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- It has taken more than two decades, countless lonely nights and imponderable hardships for Aung San Suu Kyi to reach the Oslo podium. But Myanmar's most famous political prisoner is finally getting the chance to make her case for the Nobel Peace Prize....

Correction: Western Wildfires-Tanker Planes story

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- In a June 14 story about U.S. Forest Service plans to modernize the nation's fleet of tanker planes for fighting wildfires, The Associated Press, relying on incorrect information from the Forest Service, erroneously reported the slurry capacity of seven tanker planes to be contracted. The new planes will have a minimum capacity of 3,000 gallons, not 2,400 gallons....
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Mont. authorities say hitchhiker shot himself

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A West Virginia man who claimed to be a victim of a drive-by shooting along a rural Montana highway while working on a memoir called "Kindness in America" has confessed to shooting himself, authorities said Friday....
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Report: Don't worry much about quakes and fracking

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas does not pose a high risk for triggering earthquakes large enough to feel, but other types of energy-related drilling can make the ground noticeably shake, a major government science report concludes....
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Former Goldman Sachs director convicted in NYC

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Goldman Sachs director was found guilty Friday of feeding confidential information to a corrupt hedge fund manager, becoming the most prominent defendant convicted so far in a wide-ranging probe conducted by investigators armed with wiretaps....
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THE RACE: Presidential slogan wars are heating up

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

THE RACE: Presidential slogan wars are heating up

AP - Politics - Sun, 2025-04-20 17:35
Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....
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