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GOP activists fear primary takes a toll on Romney

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

GOP activists fear primary takes a toll on Romney

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

GOP activists fear primary takes a toll on Romney

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

GOP activists fear primary takes a toll on Romney

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

Homeless youth: the next battle for gay equality

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
NEW YORK (AP) -- Iro Uikka clutches his throat as he describes the violent clash that led to spending his nights sleeping in New York City subway cars....
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UN: Syria permits aid workers to enter 4 provinces

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
GENEVA (AP) -- Syria has agreed to allow humanitarian workers and supplies into four of its provinces hit hardest by violence, a promise of some relief in a nation where 1 million people need aid urgently due to the fighting, officials said Tuesday....

Greece sees finish line in race to slice debt

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's race to slice euro107 billion ($140 billion) off its national debt entered the final stretch Thursday, with markets confident enough private investors will decide to accept a deal to write down the value of their Greek bond holdings....

UN says food prices up again

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
ROME (AP) -- International food prices have risen for the second time in two months, a U.N. agency said Thursday blaming bad weather in major exporting countries among other factors that have reversed downward price trends....

DNA tests link convicted killer to other murders

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
DENVER (AP) -- Authorities all along had the DNA evidence to link a convicted triple-murderer to three additional murders from 1979, and they say he could have been responsible for as many as 20 slayings....
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US, North Korea food aid talks end with progress

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
BEIJING (AP) -- Key issues on deliveries of American food aid to North Korea have been resolved, though details remain to be settled after talks ended Thursday....

Iran's top leader welcomes Obama's remarks

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV is reporting that the country's top leader has welcomed comments by President Barack Obama pushing diplomacy and not war as a solution to Tehran's nuclear ambition....

Mass burial for Congolese explosion victims

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (AP) -- A nation in mourning will bury the more than 200 victims of last weekend's deadly blasts at a military armory in a mass funeral Saturday, state radio in the Republic of Congo reported Thursday....

High-flying Chinese leader absent from top meeting

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
BEIJING (AP) -- A high-flying Chinese politician dogged by a scandal involving a subordinate possibly seeking U.S. asylum missed an important session of the national legislature Thursday, raising speculation about new setbacks to his political ambitions....

Biggest solar storm in years races toward Earth

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest solar storm in five years was due to arrive on Earth early Thursday, promising to shake the globe's magnetic field while expanding the Northern Lights....
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Biggest solar storm in years hits, so far so good

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the strongest solar storms in years engulfed Earth early Thursday, but scientists say the planet may have lucked out....
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Wanted: Censor for Pakistan's Internet

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan is advertising for companies to install an Internet filtering system that could block up to 50 million Web addresses, alarming free speech activists who fear current censorship could become much more widespread....

Panel: US should rethink nuke emergency plans

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
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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Police find family of dead twins

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
It took 11 days and the help of dozens of strangers, but police have finally been able to locate the family of a pair of reclusive twin sisters who were found dead in their California home last month....
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Makeovers for disenfranchised women in Paris salon

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
PARIS (AP) -- The Josephine beauty parlor in northern Paris is celebrating its first birthday Thursday and the success of a simple idea: When life is ugly, make women feel beautiful....

Makeovers for disenfranchised women in Paris salon

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 11:31
PARIS (AP) -- The Josephine beauty parlor in northern Paris is celebrating its first birthday Thursday and the success of a simple idea: When life is ugly, make women feel beautiful....
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