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Crisis threatens Europe's storied way of life

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
Elections in France and Greece reflect the anger and disillusionment coming to the surface across Europe as an entire way of life is challenged. The European landscape is undergoing profound change - from its sophisticated lifestyle to its cherished welfare benefits like guaranteed health care and a secure retirement, to a sense among many Europeans of being the world's elite....

Crisis threatens Europe's storied way of life

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
Elections in France and Greece reflect the anger and disillusionment coming to the surface across Europe as an entire way of life is challenged. The European landscape is undergoing profound change - from its sophisticated lifestyle to its cherished welfare benefits like guaranteed health care and a secure retirement, to a sense among many Europeans of being the world's elite....

Special election in Ariz. to replace Giffords

AP - Politics - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona....

Britain's Cameron: UK must stand by spending cuts

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....

Britain's Cameron: UK must stand by spending cuts

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....

Britain's Cameron: UK must stand by spending cuts

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....

Britain's Cameron: UK must stand by spending cuts

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
LONDON (AP) -- Britain must stick to its tough austerity measures despite doubts elsewhere in Europe over the best remedy to fix the continent's stalled economies, Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Tuesday....

Sen. Rand Paul launches campaign to end the TSA, privatize airport security

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
Jonathan Benson | Air travelers flying in and out of U.S. airports have been forced to endure increasing amounts of unconstitutional abuse, harassment, and embarrassment.

Virgin Media suffers hack attack

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
Virgin Media takes its website offline after an attack by hacktivists angered by The Pirate Bay access ban.
Categories: BBC, News

Netanyahu emerges as strongman with unity deal

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: peace with the Palestinians, possible war with Iran, and the growing rift at home between religious and secular Jews....

Netanyahu emerges as strongman with unity deal

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: peace with the Palestinians, possible war with Iran, and the growing rift at home between religious and secular Jews....

Teachers balloted over academies

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
Teachers at Birmingham primary schools are being balloted for strike action over plans for them to become academies, a union announces.
Categories: BBC, News

'Where Wild Things Are' author Maurice Sendak dies

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Defendant in Hudson family murder case won't testify

CHICAGO (AP) — The man accused of killing Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew will not testify in his own defense, his attorneys said Tuesday.

They informed the judge that Miss Hudson's former brother-in-law, William Balfour, had chosen not to speak directly to jurors minutes after prosecutors rested ...

MP threat man's sentence delayed

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
A man who emailed a death threat to MP Louise Mensch telling her she had to choose which of her children lived has his sentencing delayed.
Categories: BBC, News

Al-Jazeera says China has expelled reporter

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 06:36
BEIJING (AP) -- Al-Jazeera's sole English-language reporter in China has been expelled, the pan-Arab news network said Tuesday. It's the first time since 1998 that Beijing has kicked out an accredited foreign journalist....
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