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Football league 'needs more cash'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
The Welsh Premier Football League is to come under close scrutiny by AMs, who are expected to hear that it needs more income and recognition.
Categories: BBC, News

Palestinian inmate strike ongoing

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
The Israel Prison Service says more than 1,300 Palestinian prisoners remain on hunger strike, more than a week after they began their protest.
Categories: BBC, News

Senate Dems ready bill freezing student loan costs

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Strip club by church plan put off

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
Councillors defer a decision on whether to grant a license for a lap dancing and strip club next to a city centre church.
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High court appears to lean toward Arizona

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
Parts of Arizona's sweeping immigration law received a surprising amount of support from a short-handed Supreme Court Wednesday.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Looking for a few good boomers to help others

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Local charities and nonprofits are looking for a few good baby boomers - well, lots of them, actually - to roll up their sleeves to help local schools, soup kitchens and others in need....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Senate nears passage of bill to slow postal cuts

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal Service would make it harder to close thousands of low-revenue post offices and end Saturday mail delivery - steps the struggling agency says are needed to reduce billions in debt and become profitable again....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Papers speculate on Hunt's future

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
Can Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt survive in his job?
Categories: BBC, News

Immigration: Justices lean to Arizona?

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
At issue is whether states can regulate immigration or whether that's the exclusive role of the federal government.
Categories: CNN, News

Heart attack woman's cardiac call

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
A County Down woman who nearly died after having a heart attack on the street wants defibrillators to be installed in public places.
Categories: BBC, News

Girl dies during game of rounders

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
A 15-year-old girl dies at a school in Kent after collapsing during a game of rounders.
Categories: BBC, News

Ilex head faces MLAs' questions

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
The head of Londonderry's regeneration body is due to appear before a Stormont committee to face questions over how it spent more than £400,000 without proper government approval.
Categories: BBC, News

In pictures: The return of the fairground sideshow

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
The return of the fairground sideshow
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Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news....

Hunt defends BSkyB takeover role

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt tells MPs he "followed due process" in the BSkyB takeover bid - but his special adviser quits over his contacts with News Corp.
Categories: BBC, News

Annan wants new strategy to end Syria conflict

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- U.N. diplomats say international envoy Kofi Annan is urging the divided Security Council to unite and act immediately to pressure the Syrian government to implement his peace plan and keep the escalating conflict from spiraling out of control....

Romney looks to pad delegate lead in 2 primaries

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 03:46
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney was inching closer to officially claiming the Republican presidential nomination as Arkansas and Kentucky voted in primaries Tuesday....
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