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Honduras torn between ousted leader, replacement
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduras is now torn between two presidents: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country
by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation's congress, courts and military.
Autopsy planned for TV pitchman Billy Mays
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide.
Feds investigate DC train crash that killed 7
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The subway train that plowed into another, causing a crash that killed seven and injured scores of others in the nation's capital, was part of an aging
fleet that federal regulators had recommended three years ago be phased out or retrofitted, a safety investigator said Tuesday.
`Tonight' sidekick Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ed McMahon, the loyal "Tonight Show" sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" for 30
years, has died at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 86.
Truck carrying 40K pounds of beer overturns in Vt.
SWANTON, Vt. (AP) -- Police say a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer overturned in Vermont and closed a highway for several hours.
New financial rules: Major changes for big, small
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From simple home loans to Wall Street's most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new "rules of the road" for the
nation's battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama.
Iran accuses the US of meddling in election crisis
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran directly accused the United States of meddling in the deepening crisis over a disputed presidential election and broadened its media clampdown
Wednesday to include blogs and news Web sites.
War-funding bill may face difficulty in the Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that this is the last time Congress will go through the ordeal of passing an off-the-books,
expensive bill to fund two wars. It may also be one of the more difficult.
Iranian opposition head calls for rally Thursday
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge to the country's supreme leader and cleric-led system Wednesday, calling for
a mass rally to protest disputed election results and violence against his followers.
First work session on Senate health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eye-popping new cost estimates for President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system are forcing majority Democrats to scale
back their plans to subsidize coverage for the uninsured.
Shuttle launch delayed to July by hydrogen leak
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- For the second time in four days, a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak forced NASA to delay shuttle Endeavour's launch to the
international space station, this time until July at the earliest.
Elderly gunman kills guard at Holocaust Museum
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on
Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.
Top Republican rips Democrats for Sotomayor 'rush'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans accused Democrats Wednesday of moving too hastily on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, warning that the decision
could imperil her confirmation as they pressed the judge for more documents from her past.
Donald Trump ousts Prejean as Miss California
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up trouble for herself when she said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, got two dreaded words from
pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You're fired."
Judge lets Chrysler cut dealers, Fiat sale ascends
NEW YORK (AP) -- A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Chrysler's plan to terminate 789 of its dealer franchises, and the Supreme Court cleared the way for the
automaker's partnership with Italy's Fiat, rejecting a plea by a trio of Indiana pension plans and others to block the sale.
Airlines replace monitors after Air France crash
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) -- Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on Air France Flight 447
and possibly causing the plane to break up over the Atlantic Ocean.
First Gitmo inmate in US court pleads not guilty
NEW YORK (AP) -- Under heavy guard, a Guantanamo Bay detainee walked into a civilian U.S. courtroom for the first time Tuesday, underscoring the Obama
administration's determination to close the Cuban prison and hold trials here despite Republican alarms about bringing terror suspects to America.
Obama promises more than 600,000 stimulus jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal
agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.
7,000 US Marines patrolling southern Afghan desert
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (AP) -- Some 7,000 of the new U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan are fanning out across the dangerous Afghan south on a mission to
defeat the Taliban insurgency and to change the course of a war claiming American lives at a record pace.
Pro-Western bloc beats Hezbollah in Lebanon vote
BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanon's Western-backed coalition defeated Hezbollah and its allies, according to official results Monday that dealt a stunning setback to the
Iranian-backed militants and set the stage for renewed political deadlock in the volatile nation.
Jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in May; layoffs slow
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years.
Obama calls for new effort for 2-state solution
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) -- President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward
separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation's post-Holocaust creation.
Gender and heritage a frequent topic for Sotomayor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a
Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging.
Debris confirms crash of Air France Flight 447
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil (AP) -- An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site in the
mid-Atlantic Tuesday where Air France Flight 447 plunged to its doom, Brazil's defense minister said.
Military: Gitmo detainee dies of apparent suicide
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
National D-Day Memorial on brink of financial ruin
BEDFORD, Va. (AP) -- On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the foundation that runs the National D-Day Memorial is on the brink of financial ruin.
Obama: Nationalization of GM to be short-term
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a defining moment for American capitalism, President Barack Obama ushered General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy protection Monday and put the
government behind the wheel of the company that once symbolized the nation's economic muscle.
Police: Recruiting center gunman targeted military
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A man with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military
recruiting center, police said.
UK singing star Susan Boyle suffering exhaustion
LONDON (AP) -- Singer Susan Boyle was being treated for exhaustion at a mental health clinic Monday after taking second place in a TV talent competition that turned the
humble church volunteer into a global star, the show's producers and a newspaper said.
GM to reorganize in government-led bankruptcy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- General Motors Corp., the century-old automaker battered by the economic downturn, mounting debt and management problems, will file for
bankruptcy Monday.
Kan. abortion doc killed in church; suspect held
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a
church where he was serving as an usher.
Geithner says Obama will bring down deficits
BEIJING (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sought to assure America's biggest creditors on Monday that the Obama administration is committed to attacking
soaring budget deficits.
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Honduras torn between ousted leader, replacement
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- Honduras is now torn between two presidents: one legally recognized by world bodies after he was deposed and forced from the country
by his own soldiers, and another supported by the Central American nation's congress, courts and military.
Autopsy planned for TV pitchman Billy Mays
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Television viewers knew him as the OxiClean guy: the bearded, boisterous pitchman on commercials airing hundreds of times a week nationwide.
Feds investigate DC train crash that killed 7
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The subway train that plowed into another, causing a crash that killed seven and injured scores of others in the nation's capital, was part of an aging
fleet that federal regulators had recommended three years ago be phased out or retrofitted, a safety investigator said Tuesday.
`Tonight' sidekick Ed McMahon dies in LA at 86
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ed McMahon, the loyal "Tonight Show" sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding "H-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" for 30
years, has died at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 86.
Truck carrying 40K pounds of beer overturns in Vt.
SWANTON, Vt. (AP) -- Police say a truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer overturned in Vermont and closed a highway for several hours.
New financial rules: Major changes for big, small
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From simple home loans to Wall Street's most exotic schemes, the government would impose and enforce sweeping new "rules of the road" for the
nation's battered financial system under an overhaul proposed Wednesday by President Barack Obama.
Iran accuses the US of meddling in election crisis
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran directly accused the United States of meddling in the deepening crisis over a disputed presidential election and broadened its media clampdown
Wednesday to include blogs and news Web sites.
War-funding bill may face difficulty in the Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that this is the last time Congress will go through the ordeal of passing an off-the-books,
expensive bill to fund two wars. It may also be one of the more difficult.
Iranian opposition head calls for rally Thursday
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge to the country's supreme leader and cleric-led system Wednesday, calling for
a mass rally to protest disputed election results and violence against his followers.
First work session on Senate health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eye-popping new cost estimates for President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system are forcing majority Democrats to scale
back their plans to subsidize coverage for the uninsured.
Shuttle launch delayed to July by hydrogen leak
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- For the second time in four days, a potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak forced NASA to delay shuttle Endeavour's launch to the
international space station, this time until July at the earliest.
Elderly gunman kills guard at Holocaust Museum
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on
Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.
Top Republican rips Democrats for Sotomayor 'rush'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans accused Democrats Wednesday of moving too hastily on Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, warning that the decision
could imperil her confirmation as they pressed the judge for more documents from her past.
Donald Trump ousts Prejean as Miss California
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who stirred up trouble for herself when she said gays shouldn't be allowed to marry, got two dreaded words from
pageant poobah Donald Trump on Wednesday: "You're fired."
Judge lets Chrysler cut dealers, Fiat sale ascends
NEW YORK (AP) -- A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Chrysler's plan to terminate 789 of its dealer franchises, and the Supreme Court cleared the way for the
automaker's partnership with Italy's Fiat, rejecting a plea by a trio of Indiana pension plans and others to block the sale.
Airlines replace monitors after Air France crash
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) -- Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on Air France Flight 447
and possibly causing the plane to break up over the Atlantic Ocean.
First Gitmo inmate in US court pleads not guilty
NEW YORK (AP) -- Under heavy guard, a Guantanamo Bay detainee walked into a civilian U.S. courtroom for the first time Tuesday, underscoring the Obama
administration's determination to close the Cuban prison and hold trials here despite Republican alarms about bringing terror suspects to America.
Obama promises more than 600,000 stimulus jobs
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal
agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs.
7,000 US Marines patrolling southern Afghan desert
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (AP) -- Some 7,000 of the new U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan are fanning out across the dangerous Afghan south on a mission to
defeat the Taliban insurgency and to change the course of a war claiming American lives at a record pace.
Pro-Western bloc beats Hezbollah in Lebanon vote
BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanon's Western-backed coalition defeated Hezbollah and its allies, according to official results Monday that dealt a stunning setback to the
Iranian-backed militants and set the stage for renewed political deadlock in the volatile nation.
Jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in May; layoffs slow
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With companies in no mood to hire, the unemployment rate jumped to 9.4 percent in May, the highest in more than 25 years.
Obama calls for new effort for 2-state solution
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) -- President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward
separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation's post-Holocaust creation.
Gender and heritage a frequent topic for Sotomayor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate on Thursday that the White House never questioned her about cases or issues she might have to decide as a
Supreme Court justice, a disclosure gleaned from reams of documents that reveal she has spoken repeatedly about how her gender and Latina heritage affect her judging.
Debris confirms crash of Air France Flight 447
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil (AP) -- An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean marked the site in the
mid-Atlantic Tuesday where Air France Flight 447 plunged to its doom, Brazil's defense minister said.
Military: Gitmo detainee dies of apparent suicide
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday.
National D-Day Memorial on brink of financial ruin
BEDFORD, Va. (AP) -- On the eve of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the foundation that runs the National D-Day Memorial is on the brink of financial ruin.
Obama: Nationalization of GM to be short-term
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a defining moment for American capitalism, President Barack Obama ushered General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy protection Monday and put the
government behind the wheel of the company that once symbolized the nation's economic muscle.
Police: Recruiting center gunman targeted military
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A man with "political and religious motives" killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military
recruiting center, police said.
UK singing star Susan Boyle suffering exhaustion
LONDON (AP) -- Singer Susan Boyle was being treated for exhaustion at a mental health clinic Monday after taking second place in a TV talent competition that turned the
humble church volunteer into a global star, the show's producers and a newspaper said.
GM to reorganize in government-led bankruptcy
WASHINGTON (AP) -- General Motors Corp., the century-old automaker battered by the economic downturn, mounting debt and management problems, will file for
bankruptcy Monday.
Kan. abortion doc killed in church; suspect held
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a
church where he was serving as an usher.
Geithner says Obama will bring down deficits
BEIJING (AP) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sought to assure America's biggest creditors on Monday that the Obama administration is committed to attacking
soaring budget deficits.
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