Associated Press

ND vote lets school scrap Fighting Sioux nickname

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota voters overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending - at least temporarily - a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes....
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Survey: US drone program unpopular overseas

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's increasing use of unmanned drone strikes to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world, according to a Pew Research Center survey on the U.S. image abroad....
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Mother concedes some won't believe dingo took baby

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The mother of a baby snatched by a dingo at an Outback campsite 32 years ago is praising former critics who now admit they were wrong to have accused her of murder. But she says she believes others will never accept her innocence....

Mother concedes some won't believe dingo took baby

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- The mother of a baby snatched by a dingo at an Outback campsite 32 years ago is praising former critics who now admit they were wrong to have accused her of murder. But she says she believes others will never accept her innocence....

Suu Kyi sets out on first Europe trip in 24 years

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- When Aung San Suu Kyi last saw Europe, it was still divided into the democratic West and communist East. Her homeland of Myanmar was still under oppressive military rule....

Suu Kyi sets out on first Europe trip in 24 years

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- When Aung San Suu Kyi last saw Europe, it was still divided into the democratic West and communist East. Her homeland of Myanmar was still under oppressive military rule....

Suu Kyi sets out on first Europe trip in 24 years

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- When Aung San Suu Kyi last saw Europe, it was still divided into the democratic West and communist East. Her homeland of Myanmar was still under oppressive military rule....

Rights group urges Bangladesh to keep border open

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A global human rights group on Wednesday urged Bangladesh to keep its border open to people seeking refuge from sectarian violence in western Myanmar....

Rights group urges Bangladesh to keep border open

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A global human rights group on Wednesday urged Bangladesh to keep its border open to people seeking refuge from sectarian violence in western Myanmar....

Rights group urges Bangladesh to keep border open

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A global human rights group on Wednesday urged Bangladesh to keep its border open to people seeking refuge from sectarian violence in western Myanmar....

Special election in Arizona to replace Giffords

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate squared off Tuesday in a special House election in Arizona against the Republican she narrowly beat just months before she was shot. It was a hard-fought preview of the broader fall campaign to come....
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Special election in Arizona to replace Giffords

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
PHOENIX (AP) -- Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' hand-picked Democratic candidate squared off Tuesday in a special House election in Arizona against the Republican she narrowly beat just months before she was shot. It was a hard-fought preview of the broader fall campaign to come....

ND vote lets school scrap Fighting Sioux nickname

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota voters decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending - at least temporarily - a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes....
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Ariz. gov. orders training ahead of court decision

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona's governor on Tuesday ordered a state board to redistribute a training video on the state's controversial immigration law to all law enforcement agencies....
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Wash. gay marriage referendum qualifies for ballot

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A referendum on gay marriage in Washington state has qualified for the ballot....
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Wash. gay marriage referendum qualifies for ballot

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A referendum on gay marriage in Washington state has qualified for the ballot....
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Feds: Horse operation was a front for cartel cash

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- In the stables at a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico, workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales's stables as the "Zetas' stables" and say they often saw people show up with bags of cash to buy the horses....
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Hoax sea emergencies cost Coast Guard, taxpayers

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hoax emergency calls like the one about a yacht explosion off New Jersey cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars a year, yet authorities who police the nation's coastlines acknowledge there's little they can do to prevent them....
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Egypt Christians rally behind rival of Islamists

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
CAIRO (AP) -- In the small southern Egyptian town of Azaziya, where almost all the residents are Christians, few doubt that nearly everyone who can is going to vote for Ahmed Shafiq, ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and his longtime friend, in this weekend's presidential election....

Egypt Christians rally behind rival of Islamists

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-04-21 17:28
CAIRO (AP) -- In the small southern Egyptian town of Azaziya, where almost all the residents are Christians, few doubt that nearly everyone who can is going to vote for Ahmed Shafiq, ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister and his longtime friend, in this weekend's presidential election....
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