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Mum charged over baby's TV death

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
A woman whose four-month-old son died after a television fell on top of him is charged with manslaughter.
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Google splits stock as sales jump

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
Internet giant Google reports a large jump in profits and sales as well as announcing a two-for-one split of its shares.
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'Gay cure' group's advert banned

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
An advertising campaign backed by a Christian group accused of being anti-gay, is banned from London buses.
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Best of the Web Today: The Battle of All Mothers

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
Hilary Rosen and the misogynistic foundation of contemporary feminism.


News of Doolittle raid leaks slowly as Roosevelt keeps silence

In the days following Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle's daring raid on Tokyo and five other Japanese cities, no one was talking — not even President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Speaking to reporters on April 21, 1942, three days after the mission, an almost playful Roosevelt still wouldn't confirm news ...

Edwards election fraud case opens

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
Jury selection is under way in the trial of John Edwards, a former US presidential candidate, accused of using campaign funds to cover up his pregnant mistress.
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Monkeys recognise words on screen

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
Baboons can recognise actual four-letter words - as opposed to scrambled letters - on a computer screen, researchers in France find.
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Doolittle Raiders recommend the first movie

For those who lived through it, Hollywood's most recent depiction of the Doolittle raid completely bombed.

The 2001 flick "Pearl Harbor," directed by Michael Bay, focuses heavily on the April 18, 1942, mission during the latter half of the movie. Alec Baldwin portrayed raid leader Lt. Col. James H. "Jimmy" ...

London's seven mayoral candidates

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
The seven candidates vying to become the capital's mayor
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Goldman fined $22m over 'huddles'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
Goldman Sachs is fined $22m (£13.8m) by US regulators to settle charges some "top clients" may have been tipped off about stocks.
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Zimmerman credibility may be issue in Martin case

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The credibility of Trayvon Martin's shooter could be an issue at trial after a judge said that George Zimmerman and his wife lied to the court about their finances to obtain a bond, legal experts say....
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Ex drove car into bowling alley

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
A spurned woman who drove her former boyfriend's car into the bowling alley where he worked admits dangerous driving.
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Kan. grain elevator cited for serious violations

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The federal government cited a Missouri grain company Thursday for willful safety violations and proposed a hefty fine for an explosion that killed six workers last October at a northeast Kansas grain elevator....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Who will win the Grand National?

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
The experts' guide to Saturday's big race at Aintree
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VIDEO: CCTV shows girlfriend's car revenge

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
A mother-of-two has been given a nine month suspended sentence after smashing her ex-boyfriend's car into the bowling alley where he worked.
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Postmaster general visits potential closure sites

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to the people it will hurt most, telling Montana residents that up to 3,600 small post offices around the country need to be shuttered as part of cost-cutting moves....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Ann Romney fires back at never-worked charge

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ann Romney fought back Thursday against a Democrat who suggested she's no economic expert because she "hasn't worked a day in her life." Raising the five Romney sons, she said, was such a full-time job that her husband, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his work as the family breadwinner....

Ann Romney fires back at never-worked charge

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ann Romney fought back Thursday against a Democrat who suggested she's no economic expert because she "hasn't worked a day in her life." Raising the five Romney sons, she said, was such a full-time job that her husband, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his work as the family breadwinner....

Ann Romney fires back at never-worked charge

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ann Romney fought back Thursday against a Democrat who suggested she's no economic expert because she "hasn't worked a day in her life." Raising the five Romney sons, she said, was such a full-time job that her husband, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his work as the family breadwinner....

Ann Romney fires back at never-worked charge

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 09:06
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ann Romney fought back Thursday against a Democrat who suggested she's no economic expert because she "hasn't worked a day in her life." Raising the five Romney sons, she said, was such a full-time job that her husband, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his work as the family breadwinner....
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