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Official: Top Joseph Kony commander captured

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony....

Official: Top Joseph Kony commander captured

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony....

Official: Top Joseph Kony commander captured

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony....

Car hits beam of elevated train in Chicago; 4 die

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago authorities say a speeding car hit a support beam of an elevated train, crashing with enough force to split in two and killing four passengers....
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Boston U community mourns loss of 3 classmates

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
BOSTON (AP) -- Tori Pinheiro shed tears and shared the sorrow of the loss of her close friend as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan crash in New Zealand....
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Mexican police find 49 corpses

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
Mexican authorities find 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a roadside near Monterrey - the latest massacre blamed on a feud between drugs gangs.
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Syria activists: At least 5 killed in village raid

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian forces killed at least five people and torched a number of homes in a raid on a farming village Sunday that activists said showed worsening relations between Syria's myriad religious groups....

Maldonado takes landmark victory

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado clinches his maiden victory and Williams's first in eight years after overcoming Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
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A European primer: What does austerity look like?

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
Austerity has been the main prescription across Europe for dealing with the continent's nearly 3-year-old debt crisis, brought on by too much government spending. But what does it mean for the average European? Imagine paying sales tax of 23 percent or more. Or having your wages cut by 15 percent. Or, if you're in Ireland, both. Austerity comes in many forms: higher taxes, fewer state benefits, more job cuts, working longer until retirement, you name it....

Ugandan LRA 'commander' seized

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
Uganda's army says it has captured Caesar Achellam, a top commander in the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic.
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49 headless bodies dumped in Mexico

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
The state of Nuevo Leon has has become a battleground between the Gulf and Zetas drug cartels. A message at the scene appeared to refer to the Zetas.
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Man City 3-2 QPR

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
Manchester City score two injury-time goals to see off 10-man QPR and win the Premier League title in dramatic style.
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Boston U. community mourns loss of 3 classmates

BOSTON (AP) — Tori Pinheiro shed tears and shared the sorrow of the loss of her boyfriend as Boston University students, faculty and officials gathered in a campus plaza to mourn three classmates studying abroad who died in a minivan crash in New Zealand.

Miss Pinheiro told the few hundred who ...

NYTimes.com: "New York Police Release Data Showing Rise in Number of Stops on Streets"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31

NYTimes.com: New York Police Release Data Showing Rise in Number of Stops on Streets by Al Baker:

Police officers stopped people on New York City’s streets more than 200,000 times during the first three months of 2012, putting the Bloomberg administration on course to shatter a record set last year for the highest annual tally of street stops.

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Maldonado takes landmark victory

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado clinches his debut victory and Williams's first in eight years after overcoming Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.
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JPMorgan chief admits failures

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon says he was 'dead wrong' in April to dismiss concerns over the bank's trading strategy.
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Sectarian clashes rock Lebanese city, 3 killed

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Sectarian violence linked to the unrest in neighboring Syria shook the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sunday, with street clashes killing one soldier and two civilians, the state news agency said....

Sectarian clashes rock Lebanese city, 3 killed

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Sectarian violence linked to the unrest in neighboring Syria shook the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sunday, with street clashes killing one soldier and two civilians, the state news agency said....

House death pair named by police

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 03:31
A man and woman found dead at a house in Bishop's Stortford are named by Hertfordshire Police.
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