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Romney's focus on Obama brings new challenges

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- As Mitt Romney looked for a sweep in Tuesday's three Republican primaries to tighten his grip on the party's nomination, President Barack Obama criticized the GOP front-runner by name in a campaign ad for the first time, signaling that he too thinks the nomination race is all but over....

Romney's focus on Obama brings new challenges

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- As Mitt Romney looked for a sweep in Tuesday's three Republican primaries to tighten his grip on the party's nomination, President Barack Obama criticized the GOP front-runner by name in a campaign ad for the first time, signaling that he too thinks the nomination race is all but over....

Romney's focus on Obama brings new challenges

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- As Mitt Romney looked for a sweep in Tuesday's three Republican primaries to tighten his grip on the party's nomination, President Barack Obama criticized the GOP front-runner by name in a campaign ad for the first time, signaling that he too thinks the nomination race is all but over....

Romney's focus on Obama brings new challenges

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- As Mitt Romney looked for a sweep in Tuesday's three Republican primaries to tighten his grip on the party's nomination, President Barack Obama criticized the GOP front-runner by name in a campaign ad for the first time, signaling that he too thinks the nomination race is all but over....

Romney's focus on Obama brings new challenges

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- As Mitt Romney looked for a sweep in Tuesday's three Republican primaries to tighten his grip on the party's nomination, President Barack Obama criticized the GOP front-runner by name in a campaign ad for the first time, signaling that he too thinks the nomination race is all but over....

Suu Kyi's near-sweep raises Myanmar democracy hope

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in parliamentary elections is the biggest prize of her political career. But the weekend vote for only a few dozen legislative seats may have sown the seeds of something far more significant - the possibility her party could sweep the next balloting in 2015 and take control of Myanmar's government....

Suu Kyi's near-sweep raises Myanmar democracy hope

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in parliamentary elections is the biggest prize of her political career. But the weekend vote for only a few dozen legislative seats may have sown the seeds of something far more significant - the possibility her party could sweep the next balloting in 2015 and take control of Myanmar's government....

Passenger lands plane with Wis. pilot unconscious

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) -- An 80-year-old woman was able to successfully land a twin-engine airplane in northeastern Wisconsin after her husband became unconscious at the controls and died....
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Passenger lands plane with Wis. pilot unconscious

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) -- An 80-year-old woman was able to successfully land a twin-engine airplane in northeastern Wisconsin after her husband became unconscious at the controls and died....
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American Scene: Group files U.N. complaint on state's immigration law

MONTGOMERY — An alliance of union and civil rights groups opposed to Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law has filed a complaint with the United Nations' International Labor Organization.

The complaint Monday alleges that Alabama law violates international norms. It says the law and the U.S. government's inability to come up with ...

N Korea, Burma top Asean agenda

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
Asean leaders are meeting in Cambodia, with North Korea's planned rocket launch, Burma's by-election and the South China Sea topping the summit agenda.
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Syria photographer 'will return'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
The wife of war photographer Paul Conroy, who was severely injured in Syria, says he is determined to return.
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Obama takes aim at Supreme Court

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
US President Barack Obama warns that a rejection of his healthcare reform by the US Supreme Court would amount to "judicial activism".
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Elite inspectors for Olympic food

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
Ten top food safety inspectors based in Olympic venue cities are set to ensure British food is safe for the Olympics.
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Fort Bliss soldiers among 3 missing

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
Three people, two of them Fort Bliss soldiers, were reported missing after going on a weekend kayaking trip in New Mexico and not coming back, the New Mexico State Police said on Monday.
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Romney aims for primary hat-trick

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
Mitt Romney aims for a clean sweep in Wisconsin and two other primaries, as President Barack Obama attacks the Republican front-runner.
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Cops ID college shooting suspect as One Goh, 43

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A 43-year-old former student of a small Christian university in California opened fire at the school, killing at least seven people and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt that ended with his capture at a nearby shopping center, authorities said....
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Loophole in law let teen drive big rig in crash

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
JORDAN, Minn. (AP) -- A 17-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a semi pulling a box trailer converted into a recreational vehicle when the 57,000-pound rig crashed through a guardrail and into a Kansas ravine, killing five of the 18 people on board....
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Loophole in law let teen drive big rig in crash

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
JORDAN, Minn. (AP) -- A 17-year-old boy was behind the wheel of a semi pulling a box trailer converted into a recreational vehicle when the 57,000-pound rig crashed through a guardrail and into a Kansas ravine, killing five of the 18 people on board....
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Colombia guerrillas free captives held 12 years

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 22:09
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's main rebel group on Monday freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, returning the men to their families after at least 12 years spent in jungle prisons....
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