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FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan Romney achieved in Massachusetts....

FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan Romney achieved in Massachusetts....

FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan Romney achieved in Massachusetts....

FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan Romney achieved in Massachusetts....

FACT CHECK: Romney, Obama gloss over realities

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of inflicting a "government takeover of health care" on Americans, even though Obama's law is closely modeled on the plan Romney achieved in Massachusetts....

Islamists impose sharia in Mali's Timbuktu

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law....

Islamists impose sharia in Mali's Timbuktu

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law....

Islamists impose sharia in Mali's Timbuktu

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's crisis deepened Wednesday, as officials in the fabled northern city of Timbuktu confirmed that the Islamic rebel faction that seized control of the town over the weekend has announced it will impose sharia law....

Chile court gives dam green light

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
The Supreme Court in Chile has approved a plan to build a hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, dismissing concerns by environmentalists.
Categories: BBC, News

Mexico sends drug kingpin to US

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
Mexico extradites one of the country's biggest drug lords, Jesus Zambada, to the US to face charges.
Categories: BBC, News

US eases some Myanmar restrictions

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would soon nominate an ambassador to Myanmar and ease some travel and financial restrictions on the formerly military-run Southeast Asian nation following historic elections that saw opposition gains in parliament....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Worker describes Elgin evacuation

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
One of the last people to leave an offshore platform which started leaking gas in the middle of the North Sea has described the evacuation.
Categories: BBC, News

South Sudan says it shoots down Sudanese jet

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- South Sudan says it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet Wednesday after two military planes dropped bombs around its oil fields, but Sudan denied it had lost such an aircraft....

South Sudan says it shoots down Sudanese jet

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- South Sudan says it shot down a Sudanese fighter jet Wednesday after two military planes dropped bombs around its oil fields, but Sudan denied it had lost such an aircraft....

Sudan president threatens to oust South government

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's president threatened Wednesday to topple his rival government to the south, harsh words that could escalate the conflict between the two nations as they intensify clashes over their shared border....

Egypt: Constitution panel on track despite boycott

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel....

Egypt: Constitution panel on track despite boycott

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel....

Egypt: Constitution panel on track despite boycott

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
CAIRO (AP) -- The head of Egypt's constitutional assembly said Wednesday the committee will forge ahead with its work despite appeals from liberals, Christians and others who walked out in protest against the Islamist domination of the panel....

Opinion: GSA junket and D.C. hypocrisy

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
Matt Welch says the surprise isn't that a federal agency was "busted" for its $822,000 Las Vegas junket, it's that taxpayers haven't figured out that the government has been on a spending binge for years
Categories: CNN, News

Ex-Soviet arms dealer faces possible life sentence

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 05:58
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Soviet officer dubbed the "Merchant of Death" for his reputation for putting deadly weapons into the hands of violent dictators and regimes is set for sentencing Thursday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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