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Tevez parades 'RIP Fergie' sign

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
Manchester City apologise after striker Carlos Tevez is pictured with a sign saying "RIP Fergie" during his side's title parade.
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California plan to plug $16bn gap

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
California Governor Jerry Brown unveils a plan of tax hikes and spending cuts to tackle the cash-strapped US state's yawning $15.7bn (£9.7bn) budget gap.
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Regulation a campaign issue again

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
Even as his campaign portrays him as a champion of the middle class and a crusader to keep Wall Street from melting down as it did three years ago, President Barack Obama was set to leave New York Monday with a sizable haul of cash from industries whose excesses he decries from the stump.
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Flesh-eating germ rare, especially for the healthy

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
ATLANTA (AP) -- Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be too, her father says, because of the spreading infection....
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Senate nears vote on Export-Import Bank renewal

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is nearing a final vote on legislation to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank for three years and raise its lending cap from the current $100 billion to $140 billion....
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New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf....

New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf....

New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf....

New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf....

New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf....

New generation challenges some blacks in Congress

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
DALLAS (AP) -- For two decades, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has been an outspoken voice for Democrats in her signature bright blazer and multicolored scarf....

Greek, European woe could cause problems for US

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened....
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VIDEO: What if Greece exits the eurozone?

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
With no end to the political crisis in Athens in sign, EU policy-makers are now talking about the the technical process of managing a Greek withdrawal from the eurozone.
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'No jail time' urged in webcam case

TRENTON, N.J. — Several hundred protesters gathered Monday at the New Jersey Statehouse to show support for a former Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidation and to call attention to what they see as injustices in New Jersey's hate-crime laws.

The rally was in support of Dharun Ravi, a 20-year-old ...

Opinion: Get rid of big banks

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
William Black says the megabank's $2 billion losses should prompt the government to revise the rules for financial regulation
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Opinion: Right's role in gay marriage

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
Michael Dorf and Sidney Tarrow say a back-burner issue for LGBT community became a rallying cry for gay activisits only when conservatives brought their opposition to the national stage
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VIDEO: Gold tarnished by illegal trade

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
As demand for gold booms around the world, the UN is calling for tougher measures to prevent smuggling and the exploitation of workers in unregulated mines.
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VIDEO: Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have agreed to end a mass hunger strike, which has been going on for more than two months.
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Accuser tells tale of 2 wives at Clemens trial

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 18:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid his year-by-year narrative of his complex relationship with Roger Clemens and performance-enhancing drugs, Brian McNamee weaved in a tale of two wives. He said it was his own wife who nagged him into keeping evidence that has become crucial in the trial of the storied pitcher, and it was a request from Clemens' wife that led to what McNamee called a "creepy" injection scene in a bathroom....
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