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`Obamacare' foes fear ballooning big government

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
They're coming. The mom from North Carolina who opposes vaccinations and dislikes doctors and chooses to forgo health coverage because, she says, it is her right as an American. The Massachusetts Navy vet who feels health reform in his state has limited choice and ballooned costs. The husband-and-wife private investigators from Georgia who are satisfied with their own health plan and fear being forced to buy something more expensive....
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`Obamacare' foes fear ballooning big government

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
They're coming. The mom from North Carolina who opposes vaccinations and dislikes doctors and chooses to forgo health coverage because, she says, it is her right as an American. The Massachusetts Navy vet who feels health reform in his state has limited choice and ballooned costs. The husband-and-wife private investigators from Georgia who are satisfied with their own health plan and fear being forced to buy something more expensive....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

`Obamacare' foes fear ballooning big government

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
They're coming. The mom from North Carolina who opposes vaccinations and dislikes doctors and chooses to forgo health coverage because, she says, it is her right as an American. The Massachusetts Navy vet who feels health reform in his state has limited choice and ballooned costs. The husband-and-wife private investigators from Georgia who are satisfied with their own health plan and fear being forced to buy something more expensive....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

VIDEO: Shock as Bolton's Muamba collapses

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba collapses during the FA Cup quarter final against Tottenham at White Hart Lane.
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Assange to run for Australian Senate

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has decided to run for a seat in the Australian Senate, WikiLeaks announced on its Twitter page Saturday.
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Shooting spree hastens decline to win over Afghans

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The massacre of 16 Afghan civilians was a dagger to the U.S.-led coalition's hearts and minds campaign, which was already in decline after 10 years of war....

Soldier accused in Afghan killings was family man

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
LAKE TAPPS, Wash. (AP) -- On a winding road of wood-frame homes tucked amid towering trees, Robert Bales was the father who joined his two young children for playtime in the yard, a career soldier who greeted neighbors warmly but was guarded when talking about the years he spent away at war....
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Egypt's Coptic pope dies at 88

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of Egypt's Coptic Christian community for nearly four decades, died Saturday, according to the head of the Egyptian General Coptic Association. He was 88.
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Court weighs making health coverage a fact of life

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no....
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GOP preps for budget battle with Democrats, Obama

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a few months of relative peace on the budget front, Democrats and Republicans are readying for a party-defining, election-year fight over trillion dollar-plus deficits and what to do about them....
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A look at long-shot strategy by long-shot Santorum

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Rick Santorum's strategy for becoming the Republican presidential nominee comes down to this: prevent Mitt Romney from winning enough delegates to arrive at the GOP convention this summer with a mandate and persuade delegates to ignore election results in their states....

St Patrick's parades across NI

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
Thousands of people take part in St Patrick's Day parades across Northern Ireland.
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John Demjanjuk, convicted death camp guard, dies

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
BERLIN (AP) -- John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibor death camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name - a legal battle that had not yet ended when he died Saturday at age 91 - made him one of the best-known faces of Nazi prosecutions....

Chavez travels to Cuba for radiation treatment

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Cuba late Saturday to begin radiation therapy one month after undergoing surgery that removed a cancerous tumor....

Soccer star 'critically ill' after collapse

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
A 23-year-old English Premier League soccer player remained in intensive care Monday after suffering cardiac arrest during a game in London, his club Bolton said.
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VIDEO: Afghan killing suspect back in US

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians on Sunday night has been flown back to the US.
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VIDEO: Gaddafi intelligence chief 'held'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
The man who served as intelligence chief to the former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has reportedly been arrested in west Africa.
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Iraq militants release US captive

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
A Shia militant group in Iraq releases a former US soldier who was snatched last year, but the US has not confirmed the man's identity.
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500,000 pack Dublin for St Patrick's Day parade

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
DUBLIN (AP) -- An estimated 500,000 people crowded Saturday into central Dublin for the St. Patrick's Day parade, a focal point for Irish celebrations worldwide and the start of the tourist season in debt-battered Ireland....

500,000 pack Dublin for St Patrick's Day parade

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:26
DUBLIN (AP) -- An estimated 500,000 people crowded Saturday into central Dublin for the St. Patrick's Day parade, a focal point for Irish celebrations worldwide and the start of the tourist season in debt-battered Ireland....
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