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Emails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

Emails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

Emails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

A political tip sheet for the rest of us

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway, for Monday, March 26:...

A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath....

Russia condemns ally Syria over massacre of 108

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
BEIRUT (AP) -- A weekend massacre of more than 100 people emerged as a potential turning point in the Syrian crisis Monday, galvanizing even staunch ally Russia to take an unusually hard line against President Bashar Assad's government....

Dad is blunt about missing daughter's double life

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
DENVER (AP) -- Investigators said the attractive single mom who vanished from western Colorado 4 1/2 years ago was running an escort service, but her father is more blunt....
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Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
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Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court blocks 2 more parts of Ala. immigration law

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked two more sections of Alabama's tough new law targeting illegal immigration pending the outcome of lawsuits that seek to overturn the law entirely....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Senate blocks bid to speed pipeline from Canada

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure from the White House, the Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday blocked a Republican bid to speed approval of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas....
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Santorum spending primary day at home with family

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Rick Santorum is spending early Tuesday with his family at their home near Washington as voters in Mississippi and Alabama weigh in on the Republican presidential field....

Police shootings prompt outrage in Jamaica

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Security personnel armed with M16s and machine guns manned roadblocks and detained dozens of young men Thursday as part of a crackdown in a Jamaican ghetto where a 13-year-old girl, two elderly men and three others were killed during reported shootouts between police and gunmen....

Police shootings prompt outrage in Jamaica

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Security personnel armed with M16s and machine guns manned roadblocks and detained dozens of young men Thursday as part of a crackdown in a Jamaican ghetto where a 13-year-old girl, two elderly men and three others were killed during reported shootouts between police and gunmen....

Police shootings prompt outrage in Jamaica

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Security personnel armed with M16s and machine guns manned roadblocks and detained dozens of young men Thursday as part of a crackdown in a Jamaican ghetto where a 13-year-old girl, two elderly men and three others were killed during reported shootouts between police and gunmen....

British, Italian hostages killed in Nigeria

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
LONDON (AP) -- Two Europeans held hostage in Nigeria by kidnappers claiming ties to al-Qaida were killed before rescuers could free them, authorities said Thursday....

French kidnap convict sparks debate in Mexico

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A recommendation that Mexico release a French woman serving a 60-year kidnapping sentence sparked a heated debate Thursday about whether the Frenchwoman should be retried or released, and whether that would be fair to the victims in the case....

French kidnap convict sparks debate in Mexico

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A recommendation that Mexico release a French woman serving a 60-year kidnapping sentence sparked a heated debate Thursday about whether the Frenchwoman should be retried or released, and whether that would be fair to the victims in the case....

French kidnap convict sparks debate in Mexico

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 15:33
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A recommendation that Mexico release a French woman serving a 60-year kidnapping sentence sparked a heated debate Thursday about whether the Frenchwoman should be retried or released, and whether that would be fair to the victims in the case....
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