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Pat Robertson: pot should be legal like alcohol

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says marijuana should be legalized and regulated like alcohol because the government's war on drugs has failed....
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APNewsBreak: Full Titanic site mapped for 1st time

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend....
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Poll: Health overhaul unpopular, but not as feared

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly two years after President Barack Obama signed landmark legislation to cover the uninsured, a new poll finds his health care overhaul is neither better liked nor better understood....
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released Obama administration e-mails show the White House was more active than believed in the Agriculture Department's decision in 2010 to seek the resignation of federal employee Shirley Sherrod....
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E-mails show White House input on Sherrod ouster

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released Obama administration e-mails show the White House was more active than believed in the Agriculture Department's decision in 2010 to seek the resignation of federal employee Shirley Sherrod....

Libyan PM denies training Syrian rebels

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Libya's prime minister on Thursday denied Russian allegations that his government is hosting and supporting a training camp for Syrian rebels but said his country stands with the people of Syria opposed to President Bashar Assad's regime....
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Panel: US should rethink nuke emergency plans

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. should customize emergency plans for each of the nation's 65 nuclear power plants, a change that in some cases could expand the standard 10-mile evacuation zone in place for more than three decades, an expert panel is recommending....
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A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
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....

Obama, GOP governors share many views on education

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A funny thing is happening between President Barack Obama and many Republican governors when it comes to improving America's schools: They are mostly getting along....
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Obama, GOP governors share many views on education

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A funny thing is happening between President Barack Obama and many Republican governors when it comes to improving America's schools: They are mostly getting along....

Greece secures biggest debt deal in history

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's private creditors agreed Friday to take cents on the euro in the biggest debt writedown in history, paving the way for an enormous second bailout for the country to keep Europe's economy from being dragged further into chaos....

Anti-Kony video campaign draws criticism in Uganda

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The wildly successful viral video campaign to raise global awareness of a brutal Central Africa rebel leader is attracting criticism from Ugandans, some who said Friday that the 30-minute video misrepresents the complicated history of Africa's longest-running conflict....

Analysis: Victorious Putin has tricky path with US

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
MOSCOW (AP) -- Now that his return to the Kremlin is secure, Vladimir Putin may tone down the anti-Americanism that was a big part of his presidential campaign, but he seems certain to stand his ground in disputes with the United States....

Greece sees finish line in race to slice debt

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's race to slice euro107 billion ($140 billion) off its national debt entered the home stretch Thursday, with markets confident that enough investors will accept to write down more than half of the value of their Greek bond holdings....

Great powers stress diplomacy in Iran standoff

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
VIENNA (AP) -- Six world powers on Thursday urged Iran to answer questions about suspicions it is working on nuclear weapons, but stressed that diplomacy was the way forward, in a carefully worded statement that reflected Western sensitivity to Russian and Chinese concerns about being too harsh on Tehran....

Web star born: Kony video gets millions of views

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an Internet star now....

A modern Falkland Islands, transformed by war

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
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....

Investigators seek answers in Tulsa plaza shooting

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Investigators were trying to determine Thursday what led a 23-year-old man to pull a handgun in a downtown Tulsa plaza and begin firing in the air, sending people fleeing for cover and leading to a clash in which he, a sheriff's deputy and a bystander were shot and wounded....
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Berlusconi skips TV show to congratulate Putin

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
MOSCOW (AP) -- Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has skipped his first planned television appearance since stepping down, instead traveling to Russia to personally congratulate Vladimir Putin on his presidential election win....

Texas vulture study upends forensics

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:35
SAN MARCOS, Texas (AP) -- For more than five weeks, a woman's body lay undisturbed in a secluded Texas field. Then a frenzied flock of vultures descended on the corpse and reduced it to a skeleton within hours....
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