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College Board sets up 857 desks on National Mall

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Board set up 857 student desks in the blazing sun Tuesday....

College Board sets up 857 desks on National Mall

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Board set up 857 student desks in the blazing sun Tuesday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

College Board sets up 857 desks on National Mall

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Board set up 857 student desks in the blazing sun Tuesday....

College Board sets up 857 desks on National Mall

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Board set up 857 student desks in the blazing sun Tuesday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

College Board sets up 857 desks on National Mall

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Board set up 857 student desks in the blazing sun Tuesday....

Admin discipline recommended in Quran burning

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press has learned that a U.S. military investigation is recommending that as many as seven U.S. troops face administrative punishments, but not criminal charges, in the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in February....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

House panel boosts rural air service subsidies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tea party lawmakers from rural areas were among those fighting the hardest to preserve taxpayer subsidies for airline flights into and out of small towns last year after senior Republicans tried to eliminate the oft-criticized program. Now, the House Appropriations Committee is awarding the program an 11 percent budget hike....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

House panel boosts rural air service subsidies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tea party lawmakers from rural areas were among those fighting the hardest to preserve taxpayer subsidies for airline flights into and out of small towns last year after senior Republicans tried to eliminate the oft-criticized program. Now, the House Appropriations Committee is awarding the program an 11 percent budget hike....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

House panel boosts rural air service subsidies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tea party lawmakers from rural areas were among those fighting the hardest to preserve taxpayer subsidies for airline flights into and out of small towns last year after senior Republicans tried to eliminate the oft-criticized program. Now, the House Appropriations Committee is awarding the program an 11 percent budget hike....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Samsung's new LED TV is world's biggest

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
How's this for a superlative? The biggest TV in the world.
Categories: CNN, News

On tour, a looser and largely gaffe-free Romney

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (AP) -- The personal stories were slightly awkward. The small-town events tended toward the corny. His chats with voters were usually just a few words. But as Mitt Romney campaigned across six states, he loosened up a little - and avoided the verbal gaffes that had plagued him in the past....

WikiLeaks founder seeks asylum at Ecuador embassy

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
LONDON (AP) -- Embattled WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange took refuge Tuesday in Ecuador's embassy in London and is seeking political asylum, his organization and the South American nation said....

US reveals 'modern slavery' toll

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
More than 42,000 people were trafficked into prostitution, forced labour or armed conflict or kept in "modern-day slavery" in 2011, a US report says.
Categories: BBC, News

2008: Mubarak in his own words

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
A look into the mind of Hosni Mubarak, ousted leader of Egypt.
Categories: CNN, News

Wife: Nothing inappropriate between Sandusky, boys

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Jerry Sandusky's wife testified Tuesday that she remembers most of the men who told a jury that her husband sexually abused them, but she said he never had inappropriate contact with them as boys....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

WikiLeaks founder requests asylum

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and has requested political asylum, Ecuadorian officials and WikiLeaks said.
Categories: CNN, News

VIDEO: PM confronts Argentine president

BBC - News - Wed, 2024-05-15 17:47
David Cameron refuses to accept a letter from Argentina's president about her country's claim to the Falklands Islands, urging her to respect islanders' views.
Categories: BBC, News
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