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  • Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
    ATLANTA (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling graduates of Morehouse College to take the power of their example - as black men graduating from college - and use it to improve people's lives....
  • Damaged trains being removed from wreck site
    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Commuter trains damaged in a crash in Connecticut were being removed Sunday in the first step to making repairs and restoring service, the agency that runs Metro-North said....
  • Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition
    DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) -- Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday....

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  • Pedrosa wins at Le Mans to take lead
    Dani Pedrosa mastered wet track conditions at Le Mans to win the French MotoGP Sunday -- the second straight win for the Spaniard in motorcycling's premier class.
  • Iran claims it hanged CIA, Mossad spies
    Two men who the Iranian government said worked as spies for Israel and the United States were hanged Sunday morning, according to Iranian state news outlet Press TV.
  • Oxbow wins Preakness Stakes
    Oxbow, after a sixth-place showing at the Kentucky Derby, led wire-to-wire to claim victory Saturday at the 138th running of the Preakness Stakes.

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  • North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row
    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast on Sunday, a day after launching three of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers.

  • Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria
    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups.
  • Obama to discuss al Qaeda, drones, Guantanamo Bay in Thursday speech
    ATLANTA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under fire for security lapses at a U.S. mission in Libya, will in a speech on Thursday lay out his wide-ranging counter-terrorism policy, from the controversial use of drones to efforts to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
 

 

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