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Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and says it's part of why he's qualified to be president....

Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and says it's part of why he's qualified to be president....

Romney defends record at Bain Capital firm

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney is defending his work at the private equity firm he co-founded and says it's part of why he's qualified to be president....

Commercial space race gets crowded behind SpaceX

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race....
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Romney diverts bus in Pennsylvania to avoid Dems

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Mitt Romney on Saturday tried to refocus on middle-class economic issues as his bus tour wound through Pennsylvania - though Democrats pushed the likely Republican presidential nominee off of his original itinerary....

Indiana man charged with murdering 3rd woman

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) -- Prosecutors have charged a southern Indiana man accused in two killings with a third count of murder in the death of a woman whose body was found buried in his backyard....
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Strauss-Kahn contests court order

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
EX-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn asks a French court to lift a court order barring him from speaking to the media about a prostitution case.
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Obama team trumpets new polling on gay marriage

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election....

Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low....

Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low....

Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low....

Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low....

Maharashtra 'to shoot poachers'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
Forest guards in India's Maharashtra state have been told to shoot poachers on sight to curb attacks on tigers, government officials say.
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Fitzgerald to step down as U.S. attorney in Chicago

CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the most feared U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice presidential aide, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from the post he has held for more than a decade in Chicago.

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APNewsBreak: Franciscan files tell abuse story

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out....
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Monsignor: Only bishop could move accused priests

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A high-ranking church official accused of moving predator-priests to unwitting parishes took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, telling jurors in the groundbreaking clergy sex-abuse trial that he had no authority to make priest transfers....
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Concerns over Duff & Phelps role

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
A leading insolvency expert raises concerns about a conflict of interest on the part of Rangers administrators Duff & Phelps.
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Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's interim president, who was beaten by a mob of demonstrators who broke into his office this week, has left the country to seek medical treatment in France, an adviser and two French government officials said Wednesday....

Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's interim president, who was beaten by a mob of demonstrators who broke into his office this week, has left the country to seek medical treatment in France, an adviser and two French government officials said Wednesday....

Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-02 09:46
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's interim president, who was beaten by a mob of demonstrators who broke into his office this week, has left the country to seek medical treatment in France, an adviser and two French government officials said Wednesday....
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