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AP Enterprise: Vegas rail: a gamble or good thing?

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- On a dusty, rock-strewn expanse at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a company linked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to build a bullet train that would rocket tourists from the middle of nowhere to the gambling palaces of Las Vegas....
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Armed Libyans hand airport to police, ready or not

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- A powerful Libyan militia said Sunday it has withdrawn from the country's main airport, leaving it unprotected with no government security force to take over....

Parishioners comfort relatives of WV fire victims

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- As Talma Isabell coped with the crushing heartache of losing her daughter and five grandchildren in a house fire that killed nine people in all, several dozen people surrounded the woman and her family at church Sunday with their arms raised and their heads bowed in prayer....
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Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
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Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Battle over Obama health law reaches high court

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The monumental fight over a health care law that touches all Americans and divides them sharply comes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The justices will decide whether to kill or keep the largest expansion in the nation's social safety net in more than four decades....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Senegal president, ex-protege face off in 2nd vote

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Senegal's president pumped his fists confidently in the air outside his polling station Sunday, as voters cast their ballots in a runoff election that could oust the 85-year-old leader after 12 years in power....

Senators ask feds to probe requests for passwords

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
SEATTLE (AP) -- Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday....
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French gunman's brother charged

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
The brother of a gunman killed in a siege in southwestern France has been charged with complicity in seven murders and two attempted murders, prosecutors say.
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Court's health ruling could shake fall elections

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is likely to shake the presidential election race in early summer. But the winners in the court will not necessarily be the winners in the political arena....

Court's health ruling could shake fall elections

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is likely to shake the presidential election race in early summer. But the winners in the court will not necessarily be the winners in the political arena....

Coup leader in Mali does not back down

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- One day after an embargo was placed on Mali, the soldier who led a recent coup there says he agrees the nation's constitutional order should be restored, but he wants to first address Mali's ills....

Mali ministers held by junta go on hunger strike

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's foreign minister and 13 others being detained by the junta that took over Mali started a hunger strike Sunday, the minister's brother said....

Cheney has heart transplant

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
Former President George W. Bush was happy that heart transplant surgery for his vice president, Dick Cheney, went well, according to a statement Sunday from Bush's spokesman.
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Warming 'may rise by 3C' by 2050

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
By 2050, the global average temperature could rise by 1.4-3C above levels for late last century, a mass computer simulation suggests.
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'Severe flu' gene flaw identified

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
Scientists identity a genetic variant that turns mild flu into a life-threatening illness, which may explain why some people are more at risk.
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House GOP budget plan heats up as campaign issue

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top Democrats over its political fallout and economic consequences....
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House GOP budget plan heats up as campaign issue

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 19:07
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top Democrats over its political fallout and economic consequences....
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