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FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

FACT CHECK: Romney off on Obama's love for unions

AP - Politics - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy....

The time Britain slid into chaos

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
The social unrest, economic gloom and austerity in Europe today mirrors the fall of the Roman Empire, says the historian Michael Wood.
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Man arrested in disappearance of NYC boy Etan Patz

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- The timing couldn't have been more symbolic: On the eve of National Missing Children's Day, police said they'd at last cracked the case that started it - the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz....
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Backlash against African migrants in Israel

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Recent rapes blamed on African migrants have ignited a political and emotional backlash against their ballooning numbers, with Israelis and their leaders stridently - and in an alarming new development, violently - calling for their expulsion....

The unraveling myth of Watergate

Watergate has achieved a place in history that it really doesn't deserve...

AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
WACO, Texas (AP) -- Walking around a gun store one day last summer, the young man never took off his sunglasses as he asked questions about items he piled on the counter - behavior that struck the manager as odd....
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NJ Muslims angry over NYPD surveillance findings

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Muslim leaders in New Jersey say they are angry but uncertain what their next step will be after the state's attorney general found that New York City police did not violate any laws in its surveillance of Muslim businesses, mosques and student groups in New Jersey....
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Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) -- Hurricane Bud strengthened into a major storm and was headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on the Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta....

Hollande defends Afghan exit plan

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
President Francois Hollande defends his decision to end France's military mission in Afghanistan early, during an unannounced visit to Kabul.
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Jail for 2 blamed for New Zealand cargo ship spill

AP - World News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- The captain and the navigating officer of a ship that ran aground on a New Zealand reef have each been sentenced to seven months in jail....

Electric fence offers bird safety

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
A rare colony of birds making the Welsh coastline their home for three months are being protected by an electrified fence.
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Vegas grocer accused of war crimes sent to Bosnia

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday....
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Two jailed over NZ ship disaster

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months.
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Row over north-south train change

BBC - News - Fri, 2026-05-01 21:24
Opponents criticise the Welsh government for reducing the number of daily express trains between Holyhead and Cardiff.
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