Gingrich forecasts GOP takeover of House
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday a vote for Democrats was a vote for “the food stamp party” as he …
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Britain postpones return to self-governance for colony
Associated Press Writer SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An election to return self governance for Turks and Caicos Islands has been postponed, a British Foreign …
Bahamas may OK Aga Khan development in marine park
Associated Press Writer NASSAU — Environmentalists are angry that the Bahamas government is leaning toward approving a request by a billionaire philanthropist and Muslim spiritual …
Southwest Airlines to buy AirTran for $1.4B
AP Airlines Writer NEW YORK — Southwest agreed to buy AirTran in a $1.4 billion deal that will combine two of the country’s largest low-fare …
Racist messages pose quandary for mainstream Web sites
AP National Writer Although you rarely hear racial insults on Main Street these days, there’s a place where unashamed bigotry is all too easy to …
Long staying away from Sweet Home
Georgia-based Bishop Eddie Long will not preside over the installation of the new pastor of Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church in Perrine on Sunday. A …
NAACP files complaint over Wake Co. schools
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ North Carolina civil rights groups want the federal Department of Education, which spends nearly $78 million a year on Wake County …
Cuba’s leaders set out details of massive layoffs
Associated Press Writers HAVANA — Cuba’s communist leaders have already determined what they want soon-to-be-dismissed workers to do after they get their pink slips in …
Hotel planned for airport area
Associated Press Writer PORT-AU-PRINCE — Investors are planning a new sight for arrivals at Port-au-Prince’s international airport: a seven-story, 240-room luxury hotel rising just past …
Cuban minister recalls meeting of Malcolm X-Castro
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK — Fifty years after Malcolm X met with Fidel Castro in New York in the midst of the Cold War, …