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Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....

Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....

Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....

Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....

Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....
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Romney, Mormons brace for a mean political season

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- As 20,000 Mormons streamed from the church conference center, a ragtag group of protesters stood across the street shouting that the Latter-day Saints were going to hell. Mormon families, who had gathered here for two days of speeches and spiritual guidance called General Conference, ignored the hecklers or laughed and kept walking....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney busy laying groundwork

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
Both presidential candidates are tending to essentials at this stage in their campaigns....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney grapple with euro crisis

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
President Barack Obama is out of the country for a few days but hardly off the campaign trail....

THE RACE: Obama, Romney grapple with euro crisis

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
President Barack Obama is out of the country for a few days but hardly off the campaign trail....

THE RACE: Presidential slogan wars are heating up

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
Mitt Romney is on an "Every Town Counts" bus tour rolling across six states won in 2008 by Barack Obama and now being courted by Republicans....

VIDEO: Geese versus police - it's Odd Box

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
A mud carnival, the police who tried to help a family of geese and a huge drum kit. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.
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UK military shows off missiles to protect Olympics

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
LONDON (AP) -- On a muddy field on the outskirts of London, Britain's military showed off a weapon Thursday it hopes it never has to use....

Samsung unveils new Galaxy phone

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
Samsung unveils its new Galaxy S3 smartphone, featuring a 4.8 inch screen, calling it the "best in class" Android-based phone on the market.
Categories: BBC, News

Losing candidate opposes Sarkozy

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
Defeated centrist French presidential candidate Francois Bayrou throws his weight behind Socialist leader Francois Hollande ahead of Sunday's run-off.
Categories: BBC, News

Police believe Neo-Nazi killed 4, himself in Ariz.

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
GILBERT, Ariz. (AP) -- Police said Thursday that they believe a former Marine with ties to neo-Nazi and Minutemen groups shot four people and then took his own life in a suburban Phoenix home....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Forger jailed for bogus paintings

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
A forger who created up to 1,000 bogus paintings - selling many to unsuspecting buyers - has been jailed for two years.
Categories: BBC, News

Israel gets 4th nuke-capable German submarine

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel on Thursday received its fourth German-made submarine capable of launching nuclear warheads, expanding a fleet that experts say could be used in an attack on Iran....

Ex-Edwards aide had awkward run-in with mistress

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Another former close aide to John Edwards testified Thursday about bungled efforts to keep the former presidential candidate's affair hidden from staff members, including an awkward encounter when his mistress showed up at a hotel weeks after her work filming Mr. Edwards had ended.

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Outgoing Nokia board chief concedes mistakes

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
HELSINKI (AP) -- Outgoing Nokia Corp. board chairman Jorma Ollila has conceded the company made mistakes during his tenure at the helm of the cellphone maker that held the No. 1 spot for 14 years....

Taylor 'should serve 80 years'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 21:23
Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor should serve 80 years after his conviction at The Hague for war crimes in the Sierra Leone civil war, prosecutors say.
Categories: BBC, News
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