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Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday....

Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday....

Watchdog expanding ethics probe at labor board

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday....

Nigeria: 7 killed in newspaper office bombings

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility....

Car bombing at north Nigeria church kills 15

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide car bomber drove into a church compound in northern Nigeria Sunday and detonated his explosives as worshippers left an early morning service, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, officials and witnesses said....

Nigeria: 7 killed in newspaper office bombings

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- A suicide bomber and a man armed with explosives attacked two Nigerian newspaper offices on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding at least 26. The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility....

Family's payout after negligence

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
The parents of a six-year-old girl from Wrexham who was left severely brain damaged due to medical negligence win their claim against a health board.
Categories: BBC, News

US-Afghan pact achieved despite Karzai's rhetoric

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's president has branded his U.S. allies as corrupt, wasteful and contemptuous of Afghan lives. Once he even threatened to join the Taliban. Nonetheless, Hamid Karzai signed a deal that could keep thousands of U.S. troops in his country for years....

Pakistan deports bin Laden widows

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
Fourteen members of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's family were being deported Thursday night to Saudi Arabia, Pakistani officials said.
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Drug-overdose antidote is put in addicts' hands

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) -- Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn, blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Lesbian Scout leader ousted in Ohio; parents upset

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian - at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization's ban on gays....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

VIDEO: Revising on a rodeo ride? It's Odd Box

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
A rubber chicken launched into space, the wrong place to park in Paris and rodeo exam revision. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.
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Taylor conviction sends warning to tyrants

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday became the first head of state since World War II convicted by an international war crimes court, a legal landmark observers say sent a clear message to tyrants around the world that their days of impunity are numbered....

Edwards attorney attacks ex-aide's credibility

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' defense lawyer on Thursday picked apart ex-aide Andrew Young's story that he was asked to conceal Edwards' affair with a mistress with campaign money, accusing him of making up stories about the former presidential contender to make money off of the scandal....

In speech, Biden attacks Romney on foreign policy

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
NEW YORK (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a harsh attack Thursday on Mitt Romney's foreign policy views, arguing that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is rooted in a Cold War mentality and is uninformed about the current challenges facing the U.S. abroad....

APNewsBreak: Donor says he offered internship

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A member of a Los Angeles temple apologized Thursday for offering an internship in a U.S. senator's office as part of a charity auction that the founder of "Girls Gone Wild" says he won....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ukraine marks 26th anniversary of Chernobyl

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Urging all nations to be extremely cautious with nuclear energy, Ukraine's president thanked donors for financing the construction of a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster....

US: Mexico seized 68,000 guns from US since 2006

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States....
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Report: Rebates from health care law will top $1B

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Fuel drivers urged to reject deal

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 16:24
Tanker drivers involved in a dispute with fuel distribution companies are urged to reject proposals aimed at resolving their differences.
Categories: BBC, News
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