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VIDEO: Scientists count penguins from space

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
An international team of scientists has been using high resolution satellite images from space to count penguins.
Categories: BBC, News

Eye-in-sky helps count penguins

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
There are nearly 600,000 emperor penguins in Antarctica - twice as many as was previously thought - according to a new satellite survey.
Categories: BBC, News

Wife killed at Ohio restaurant reported problems

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
CLEVELAND (AP) -- An Ohio woman shot by her husband inside a crowded Cracker Barrel restaurant had told police two days earlier they had been fighting recently and he had threatened to take their children if she returned to their house....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Romney makes pivot, courts NRA

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
In his first major speech to conservatives since his Republican rival Rick Santorum quit the presidential race, Mitt Romney turned his sights on the general election and accused President Barack Obama of waging "an assault on our freedoms."
Categories: CNN, News

Obama pays $162,074 in taxes on $789,674 income

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama pays $162,074 in taxes on $789,674 income

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama pays $162,074 in taxes on $789,674 income

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama pays $162,074 in taxes on $789,674 income

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a political maneuver designed to pressure the Republican presidential candidate to divulge tax records beyond two years and to stop "hiding" details of his huge personal wealth....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Budget woes force NASA to redraw plans to Mars

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Budget woes force NASA to redraw plans to Mars

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Budget woes force NASA to redraw plans to Mars

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Budget woes force NASA to redraw plans to Mars

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Know how to go to Mars cheaply? NASA can use your help....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Colombian out of World Bank race

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
Colombia's Jose Antonio Ocampo pulls out of the race to be the next World Bank president, calling the selection process a "political exercise".
Categories: BBC, News

What Will Survive of Us

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
Philip Larkin's poems are a protest against the limits of time, says David Mason.


Michigan governor signs motorcycle helmet repeal

Despite safety and cost arguments from the insurance industry and the medical community, Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder announced Friday that he had signed into law a repeal of the state's mandatory motorcycle helmet law.

His nod for repeal comes as welcome news to bikers around the state, many of ...

Romney: Obama will erode the rights of gun owners

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners - even though the topic has rarely arisen during his time in office....

Romney: Obama will erode the rights of gun owners

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners - even though the topic has rarely arisen during his time in office....

Romney: Obama will erode the rights of gun owners

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners - even though the topic has rarely arisen during his time in office....

Romney: Obama will erode the rights of gun owners

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners - even though the topic has rarely arisen during his time in office....

Romney: Obama will erode the rights of gun owners

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 10:22
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The presidential campaign briefly veered from the emotional Mommy Wars on Friday to the back-burner issue of gun rights, with Mitt Romney telling the National Rifle Association that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners - even though the topic has rarely arisen during his time in office....
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