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Arrest in shooting of Atlanta policeman from roof

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
ATLANTA (AP) -- Atlanta police on Friday arrested a suspect in the shooting of an officer who they say was targeted from a rooftop in a busy business district....
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Sport Relief raises record £50m

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
Sport Relief has raised £50m in public donations, a new on-the-night record for the charity telethon.
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Space junk threatens station astronauts

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A discarded chunk of a Russian rocket is forcing six space station astronauts to seek shelter in escape capsules early Saturday....
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Guatemala arrests ex-police chief

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
Guatemala arrests former police chief Marlene Blanco Lapola for alleged involvement in extra-judicial killings of criminal suspects.
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VIDEO: Inside the Toulouse gunman's flat

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
Video footage has been released showing the inside of the Toulouse apartment of Mohamed Merah, the man who shot dead 7 people.
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9 charged in sexual attack on teen in St. Paul

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Nine suspected gang members and associates were charged Friday in a sexual attack on a 14-year-old girl who was forced back inside an abandoned St. Paul house and raped after trying to leave a party last November, authorities said....
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9 charged in sexual attack on teen in St. Paul

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Nine suspected gang members and associates were charged Friday in a sexual attack on a 14-year-old girl who was forced back inside an abandoned St. Paul house and raped after trying to leave a party last November, authorities said....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

9 charged in sexual attack on teen in St. Paul

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Nine suspected gang members and associates were charged Friday in a sexual attack on a 14-year-old girl who was forced back inside an abandoned St. Paul house and raped after trying to leave a party last November, authorities said....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Gina Raimondo: The Democrat Who Took on the Unions

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
Rhode Island's treasurer Gina Raimondo talks about how she persuaded the voting public, labor rank-and-file and a liberal legislature to pass the most far-reaching pension reform in decades.


VIDEO: Five Minutes With: Christopher Eccleston

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
The actor talks to Matthew Stadlen about the "madness" of performing on stage, how much of himself appears in his roles, his desire to play a woman - and the "chemistry set" of his emotions.
Categories: BBC, News

Stamp duty holiday comes to end

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
The stamp duty holiday for first-time house buyers has ended, meaning they will join others in paying 1% tax on properties worth more than £125,000.
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Egypt football ban sparks clashes

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
New clashes flare in Egypt's Port Said after al-Masry football club is suspended over match violence, which left dozens of people dead in February.
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Army sergeant charged in Afghan massacre

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....

Army sergeant charged in Afghan massacre

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Charges filed Friday against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales reflect the horror of the crime: 17 counts of premeditated murder, more than half of them children, during a shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan. But while Afghans are calling for swift and severe punishment, it will likely be months, even years, before the public ever sees Bales in a courtroom....
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Slain teen's friends say he never picked a fight

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
MIAMI (AP) -- Wearing a hoodie. Listening to music and talking on his cellphone. Picking up Skittles for his soon-to-be stepbrother. Friends say that's how they would have imagined 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Sunday afternoon....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Cash spills on the highway: What would you do?

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- You're cruising along the highway when you see a bunch of green bills fluttering around like flakes in a snow globe. You get closer and you realize it's cash. Other drivers are pulling over to snatch what they can. What do you do?...
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Cash spills on the highway: What would you do?

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- You're cruising along the highway when you see a bunch of green bills fluttering around like flakes in a snow globe. You get closer and you realize it's cash. Other drivers are pulling over to snatch what they can. What do you do?...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Cash spills on the highway: What would you do?

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- You're cruising along the highway when you see a bunch of green bills fluttering around like flakes in a snow globe. You get closer and you realize it's cash. Other drivers are pulling over to snatch what they can. What do you do?...
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

VIDEO: Obama's surprise World Bank nominee

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 04:49
Barack Obama has revealed his nomination for the new head of the World Bank. He is a Korean-born American academic called Jim Yong Kim, who has a sideline in musical performance, as John McManus reports.
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