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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades....
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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades....
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Stanford gets 110 years for role in $7B swindle

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
HOUSTON (AP) -- Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford had plenty of things to say Thursday before a federal judge sentenced him to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out of more than $7 billion over two decades....
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Smell of death greets UN monitors in Syrian town

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
BEIRUT (AP) -- Smoldering buildings, looted shops, smashed cars and a strong stench of death greeted U.N. observers who entered the nearly deserted Syrian town of Haffa on Thursday, a day after President Bashar Assad's forces overran it as part of a major offensive to recover rebel-controlled territories....

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States....

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...
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Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States....

'Soft coup' could reignite revolution

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
An Egyptian high court ruling Thursday that dissolves the newly elected parliament is akin to a coup d'état favoring the old guard and military, analysts say.
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VIDEO: Call to dissolve Egypt parliament

BBC - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
Egypt's supreme court has caused outrage by calling for the dissolution of the lower house of parliament and for fresh elections.
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Poland convicts 23 for soccer hooligan violence

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Nearly two dozen hooligans have been convicted in fast-track trials for their role in violent clashes when Poland and Russia faced off in an emotionally charged European Championship match earlier this week, court officials said Thursday....

Poland convicts 23 for soccer hooligan violence

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Nearly two dozen hooligans have been convicted in fast-track trials for their role in violent clashes when Poland and Russia faced off in an emotionally charged European Championship match earlier this week, court officials said Thursday....

Poland convicts 23 for soccer hooligan violence

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 21:37
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Nearly two dozen hooligans have been convicted in fast-track trials for their role in violent clashes when Poland and Russia faced off in an emotionally charged European Championship match earlier this week, court officials said Thursday....
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