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George W. Bush offers tepid endorsement of Romney

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- George W. Bush is backing presumptive Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

George W. Bush offers tepid endorsement of Romney

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- George W. Bush is backing presumptive Republican White House nominee Mitt Romney....

Congress votes to reauthorize Export-Import Bank

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government's vehicle for promoting U.S. export sales survived a challenge from conservatives Tuesday with a Senate vote to renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank for three years. The vote, coming after the Senate rejected amendments to weaken or kill the bank, sends the measure to President Barack Obama for his signature....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Edwards acquitted on 1 count, mistrial on others

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress while he ran for president....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Best of the Web Today: Bias a Drink

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
It's Obama vs. the New York Times!


Judges refuse to block disclosure ruling

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An appeals court has ruled, for the time being, against groups that finance electioneering ads and want to keep the identity of their donors secret....

Judges refuse to block disclosure ruling

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An appeals court has ruled, for the time being, against groups that finance electioneering ads and want to keep the identity of their donors secret....

Judges refuse to block disclosure ruling

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An appeals court has ruled, for the time being, against groups that finance electioneering ads and want to keep the identity of their donors secret....

Leahy wants investigation into Arizona sheriff's tactics

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to investigate whether the office of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio used federal grant money to illegally detain Hispanics, whom the government alleges were the victims of racial profiling.

If so, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, ...

Suu Kyi backs proposal to suspend US sanctions

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is cautiously backing a U.S. senator's proposal to suspend U.S. economic sanctions....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ads highlight cozy campaign-super PAC relationship

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
NEW YORK (AP) -- Looks like President Barack Obama's allies got the hint....

2 dead in Bogota bombing targeting former minister

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A bomb targeting a hardline former Colombian interior minister killed two of his bodyguards and injured at least 31 others in the heart of Bogota's uptown commercial district Tuesday, authorities said....

VIDEO: Obama jokes with LA Galaxy stars

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
US President Barack Obama congratulates the LA Galaxy, the winner of Major League Soccer cup, and receives his own Galaxy jersey.
Categories: BBC, News

US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault Tuesday against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from a nearby desert air base-turned-command center....

US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault Tuesday against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from a nearby desert air base-turned-command center....

US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault Tuesday against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with U.S. troops for the first time helping direct the offensive from a nearby desert air base-turned-command center....

Lack of trust in Facebook may hold back ad sales

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's reach is wide but not deep. Few users surveyed in an Associated Press-CNBC poll say they click on the site's ads or buy the virtual goods that make money for it....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Scientists hunt ways to stall Alzheimer's earlier

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease - by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Prominent Legion priest admits he fathered child

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The Legion of Christ religious order, still reeling from 2009 revelations that its founder was a pedophile who fathered three children, was hit Tuesday by another scandal after its most well-known priest - a prominent author, lecturer and television personality - admitted he had fathered a child several years ago....

Mobster's body exhumed from Vatican

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 04:02
The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl's disappearance.
Categories: CNN, News
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