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April leap or May slog, Romney on pace to GOP nod

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- April looks good for Mitt Romney, with its string of Midwestern and Eastern primaries seemingly tailor-made for the Republican presidential front-runner....

April leap or May slog, Romney on pace to GOP nod

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- April looks good for Mitt Romney, with its string of Midwestern and Eastern primaries seemingly tailor-made for the Republican presidential front-runner....

Murray to face Djokovic in final

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Andy Murray will play Novak Djokovic in the Miami Masters final after Rafael Nadal withdraws injured before his semi against Murray.
Categories: BBC, News

RFU opens discussions for Farrell

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Saracens and the Rugby Football Union open "cordial and constructive discussions" over the future of coach Andy Farrell.
Categories: BBC, News

BLT: "Lacking GPS Data, Prosecutors Turn To Cell Tower Information"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37

BLT: Lacking GPS Data, Prosecutors Turn To Cell Tower Information:

Earlier this year the U.S. Supreme Court said federal prosecutors in Washington will not be able to use global positioning system information in an upcoming drug conspiracy trial here.

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The Jones case is back in Washington federal district court, and it now turns out that the authorities may not need the GPS data to try to link Jones to the drug house.

Prosecutors said they intend to use cell tower data in place of the GPS information, court records show. Cell tower data was not used in either of the first two trials involving Jones.

Jones’ attorney, A. Eduardo Balarezo, late Thursday filed court papers (PDF) in the case challenging the prosecution’s planned use of tower data to show Jones’ movement in the Washington metropolitan area.

Cell tower information is less reliable than GPS because of the ability of a cell phone to leapfrog over cell towers to others less close, but most persons who claim to be experts on this will admit the failings.

Colo. sheriff notes problems with fire warnings

CONIFER, Colo. — Authorities in Colorado say they're investigating how well their emergency telephone notification system works because some residents who signed up never got a warning about a wildfire.

Jefferson County sheriff's spokesman Mark Techmeyer said Friday that an unknown number of people who signed up weren't called.

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M4 open after crash near Bridgend

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
The M4 reopens after three cars, one towing a caravan, crashed near Bridgend.
Categories: BBC, News

Young Syrian activists put life on hold in revolt

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Last year, Khalid was a 19-year-old Syrian university student whose modest dreams were to land a job and earn enough to marry his girlfriend - not simple tasks given Syria's weak economy and his lack of connections to the ruling elite....

Young Syrian activists put life on hold in revolt

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Last year, Khalid was a 19-year-old Syrian university student whose modest dreams were to land a job and earn enough to marry his girlfriend - not simple tasks given Syria's weak economy and his lack of connections to the ruling elite....

Young Syrian activists put life on hold in revolt

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) -- Last year, Khalid was a 19-year-old Syrian university student whose modest dreams were to land a job and earn enough to marry his girlfriend - not simple tasks given Syria's weak economy and his lack of connections to the ruling elite....

Petrov can beat this - Geoff Thomas

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
"I was given three months to live - in 2003" - Former England man Geoff Thomas on battling leukaemia
Categories: BBC, News

Gender and the GOP

Opinion Journal - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
By Allysia Finley Romney and the GOP Senate candidates stand little chance of winning unless they shore up their support among women.


Marco Rubio: 'I'm not going to be VP'

CNN - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio makes it clear he will not run for vice president and explains why he endorsed Mitt Romney.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Opinion: Millions line up to pay tax

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Scott Drenkard says state governments reap enormous amounts of money, much of it from the poor, through lotteries
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The funny, unseen side of politics

CNN - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Fmr. Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) shares some stories from his new book "Life Among The Cannibals."
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Dorf: Health ruling can't avoid politics

CNN - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Michael Dorf says as justices mull constitutionality of the health care mandate, they know their decisiion could rob President Obama of his most significant domestic policy achievement
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

VIDEO: Largest handwritten Koran in Kabul

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
One of the world's most exquisite copies of the Koran, has been unveiled in Kabul. It is the world's largest handwritten copy of the Koran.
Categories: BBC, News

France 'set to extradite Rwandan'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
A French court has allowed the first-ever extradition of a suspect to Rwanda over the country's 1994 genocide, local media reports say.
Categories: BBC, News

Belfast unveils birth-to-death story of Titanic

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- One minute you're being whisked through the busy Belfast shipyard where the Titanic is being built. The next you're contemplating, amid a chilly piped-in breeze and lights mimicking darkened waters, the horror of freezing to death in the North Atlantic....

Japan eases Fukushima danger area

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-10 03:37
Japan is allowing some of the 80,000 people forced to move following last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster to visit their homes again.
Categories: BBC, News
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