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Seeking the limelight, with the help of star power

AP - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- No presidential candidate worth his chauffeured SUV has reached his personal zenith without this: celebrities to vouch for them. They are the glam and glitter of political campaigns, sure to turn even jaded political operatives into fawning celeb watchers....

Mexican politico slammed for 'prostitute' remarks

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican congressman who said all pretty women become prostitutes was asked by his party to give up his bid to run for the Senate on Friday....

Mexican politico slammed for 'prostitute' remarks

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A Mexican congressman who said all pretty women become prostitutes was asked by his party to give up his bid to run for the Senate on Friday....

Obama, backing gay marriage, on fundraising tour

AP - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh from declaring his support of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama is diving into the embrace of Hollywood's wealthy elite at the gala event of the political season - a sold-out, record-setting fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of movie star George Clooney....

In Afghan killings case, questions over alcohol

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear - a fact highlighted by investigators' probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a killing spree that left 16 Afghans dead....

In Afghan killings case, questions over alcohol

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The U.S. military bans alcohol for its troops in Afghanistan, but that doesn't stop some soldiers from having a bottle or two stowed away in their gear - a fact highlighted by investigators' probe into whether alcohol played a role when a U.S. sergeant allegedly carried out a killing spree that left 16 Afghans dead....

Seeking the limelight, with the help of star power

AP - Politics - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
ATLANTA (AP) -- No presidential candidate worth his chauffeured SUV has reached his personal zenith without this: celebrities to vouch for them. They are the glam and glitter of political campaigns, sure to turn even jaded political operatives into fawning celeb watchers....

New details on US suspect ID'd in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
After five days cloaked in military secrecy, the U.S. soldier suspected in a massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has been identified as a Washington state father of two who underwent anger management counseling a decade ago after an arrest for assault on a girlfriend....
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Neighbors say Afghan attack suspect was family man

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
LAKE TAPPS, Wash. (AP) -- Neighbors of a Washington state man accused of gunning down 16 Afghan women and children in a nighttime rampage describe him as a family man, playing with his two kids outside his home....
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Chavez returns home to Venezuela after surgery

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home Friday nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba, saying he is praying for life and is confident he will survive and triumph in his re-election bid....

Radio's 'This American Life' retracts Apple story

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
CHICAGO (AP) -- The public radio program "This American Life" on Friday retracted a story about the harrowing tale of what an artist said he found while investigating Apple operations in China, citing "numerous fabrications."...
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Iron Lady faced test of mettle in West End farce

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- She went to war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands and faced down the powerful National Union of Mineworkers. But one of the hardest things Margaret Thatcher ever did, according to newly released personal papers, was attend a West End farce with herself as the central character....

Papers reveal Thatcher kept Reagan's doodles

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) -- Margaret Thatcher was so fascinated by U.S. President Ronald Reagan that she snatched and kept a page of his doodles from a G7 summit, the former British prime minister's newly released papers reveal....

Experts: Soldier might have post-traumatic stress

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
They are questions already being debated: Did the soldier suspected of killing Afghan villagers have post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD? And did the people who sent him back to war after he was injured properly determine he was mentally fit to return?...
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Experts: Soldier might have post-traumatic stress

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
They are questions already being debated: Did the soldier suspected of killing Afghan villagers have post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD? And did the people who sent him back to war after he was injured properly determine he was mentally fit to return?...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Scores of Afghans killed in violence across nation

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Scores of Afghans were killed Wednesday in Taliban attacks and other violence including a NATO airstrike, highlighting persistent instability as foreign troops begin their drawdown more than a decade after the U.S.-led invasion....

War effort hits new low; Karzai at 'end of rope'

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's at "the end of the rope," and a majority of Americans feel the same way....
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El Salvador to give pensions to ex-rebel fighters

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's government is giving $50-per-month pensions to thousands of elderly former leftist rebels who fought in the country's 1980-1992 civil war....

El Salvador to give pensions to ex-rebel fighters

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's government is giving $50-per-month pensions to thousands of elderly former leftist rebels who fought in the country's 1980-1992 civil war....

El Salvador to give pensions to ex-rebel fighters

AP - World News - Sat, 2024-11-30 16:35
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- El Salvador's government is giving $50-per-month pensions to thousands of elderly former leftist rebels who fought in the country's 1980-1992 civil war....
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