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Dozens arrested in Vt. nuclear plant protest

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) -- A 93-year-old anti-nuclear activist was among more than 130 protesters arrested at the corporate headquarters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant on the first day of the plant's operation after the expiration of its 40-year license....
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Daley takes World Series silver

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
Tom Daley wins a second World Series silver medal in a week with Peter Waterfield in the 10m platform synchro in Beijing.
Categories: BBC, News

Giant asteroid 'resembles planet'

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
The giant asteroid Vesta has many features that are usually associated with rocky planets like Earth, according to data from a Nasa probe.
Categories: BBC, News

Spies 'penetrate' US army network

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
Foreign spies have comprehensively penetrated the computer networks of the US government, American politicians have been told.
Categories: BBC, News

Drink strategy 'cover for Budget'

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
Labour accuses the government of using an announcement about alcohol pricing as "cover" to distract from criticism of the Budget.
Categories: BBC, News

Bales engaged in financial fraud

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
The U.S. soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians engaged in fraud during his career as a financial adviser and skipped out paying nearly $1.5 million to an elderly client, according to financial records.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

In pictures: Childhood tuberculosis in Lima

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
Young people fighting tuberculosis in Peru
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: House of Commons

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that the government will introduce a minimum price for alcohol.
Categories: BBC, News

'Glassing' attack woman is jailed

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
A 22-year-old Londonderry woman who inflicted permanent scars on another 22-year-old woman by smashing a pint glass into her face, is jailed for two and a half years.
Categories: BBC, News

Opinion: How GOP got Catholicized

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
A party that was once dominated by Protestants, the Republicans are now heavily influenced by conservative Catholics, says Tim Stanley
Categories: CNN, News

Prostitution head loses cash plea

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
A man who ran an international prostitution ring will have to hand over £1.9m of his criminal profits after losing an appeal in court.
Categories: BBC, News

Army sergeant to be charged in Afghan killings

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The attorney for the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians says his client has memory problems that pre-date the March 11 shootings....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Arrest demands grow in Fla. teen's shooting death

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The investigation into last month's shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in an Orlando suburb is out of the hands of the beleaguered police chief and the county prosecutor with the Justice Department looking at possible civil rights violations and a grand jury perhaps considering ...

Ukraine rape victim searches for justice

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- The 18-year-old woman, prosecutors say, was gang-raped by three young men, who tried to cover up their crime by strangling her with a cord, wrapping her naked body in a blanket and dumping her at an abandoned construction site - where they set her on fire....

Exxon Valdez sold, likely destined for scrap heap

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The notorious Exxon Valdez tanker, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history two decades ago, has been bought by an Indian company almost certainly to be scrapped for its steel and spare parts....

Charges over dog attack on police

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
A man is charged with possessing a dangerous dog which attacked five police officers - along with two other serious offences.
Categories: BBC, News

UN rights chief warns of full civil war in Syria

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N.'s top human rights official warned Friday that all-out civil war could engulf Syria unless countries that have backed international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan rally around calls for an independent probe into the killing of more than 100 civilians last week....

UK gov't proposes minimum alcohol price

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's government is introducing a plan to ban the sale of super-cheap alcohol in hopes of clamping down on irresponsible drinking....

Drowning killed Houston, but drugs took high toll

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Drugs took many things from Whitney Houston - her pristine voice, clean image and her career - and coroner's officials revealed Thursday that cocaine also played a role in the Grammy winner's death in the bathtub of a luxury hotel nearly six weeks ago....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-05-06 01:43
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology position....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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