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Obama, GOP vie for upper hand on energy

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign....

Parents want Florida gunman held

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
The family of a black Florida teenager shot and killed by a neighbourhood watchman call for the arrest of the shooter, who says he acted in self-defence.
Categories: BBC, News

Opinion: Romney's money problem

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
Ilyse Hogue says he won in Illinois by drawing once more on well-off, college-educated voters; he has a harder time attracting many others who see him as an emblem of the forces that sent the economy off a cliff
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Flirtatious e-mails fill al-Assad's inbox

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
Even without the looming threat of civil war in Syria, flirting with a Middle Eastern ruler is dangerous business.
Categories: CNN, News

Broncos, Jets work out Tebow trade

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
The New York Jets announced Wednesday that they have agreed on a trade with the Denver Broncos for quarterback Tim Tebow, who was displaced in Denver by superstar Peyton Manning.
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VIDEO: Budget 2012: The people's verdict

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
The BBC's Danny Savage spent the day in Northallerton in North Yorkshire, where he canvassed opinion on the 2012 Budget.
Categories: BBC, News

Belgium holds service for victims of bus crash

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
BRUSSELS (AP) -- King Albert II and thousands of mourners on Wednesday remembered the 28 victims of last week's bus crash in a Swiss tunnel during a memorial service centering on the 22 schoolchildren whose promise of youth was shattered by sudden death....

Uganda arrest after police death

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye is held under house arrest after the death of a policeman during clashes in the capital, his party says.
Categories: BBC, News

Rights leaders keep up pressure in Fla. shooting

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- After declaring victories in getting federal and state officials to investigate the case of an unarmed black teenager shot to death by a neighborhood watch captain, civil rights leaders continued to pressure authorities to make an arrest....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Court weighs US power over states in health case

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Dole: Santorum must soon consider dropping out

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former senator Bob Dole says GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is "getting close to the point" where he'll have to decide whether to stay in the race for the nomination or drop out....

Dole: Santorum must soon consider dropping out

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 12:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former senator Bob Dole says GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is "getting close to the point" where he'll have to decide whether to stay in the race for the nomination or drop out....
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