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Peter Schuck: How About Visas for Syrian Defectors?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Here's a low-cost way to finish off the Assad regime.


Jenkins: Wireless War Without End?

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Washington has created a lobbying standoff between the wireless and broadband industries that's only going to delay a fix for the spectrum shortage.


Four banks fail US stress tests

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Four US financial institutions, including Citigroup, fail stress tests designed to show they could withstand a financial shock.
Categories: BBC, News

Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Henry Hazlitt on the risks of government loans to the private sector.


Miles and Rouse: After the Merger, How Not to Lose Customers

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Customer defections are a major reason why more than half of all mergers fail to improve shareholder value.


Hassett and Hubbard: Romney vs. Obama on Corporate Tax Reform

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
By proposing special breaks for manufacturing, Rick Santorum follows the president's incorrect lead and introduces a significant economic distortion.


VIDEO: Mashable 'to sell for £130m'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
An American media firm is said to be negotiating to buy the technology website Mashable for more than £100m.
Categories: BBC, News

Missouri school bus overturns; 16 hurt

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Twelve victims were being transported to Washington County Memorial Hospital after a school bus overturned in Missouri, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Categories: CNN, News

'Desperate Housewives' trial nears end

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
The set construction coordinator for "Desperate Housewives" testified Tuesday he received an e-mail that suggested a "conspiracy to cover up" information regarding actress Nicollette Sheridan's lawsuit against ABC and the TV show's producers.
Categories: CNN, News

When the Scholar Was a Soldier

Opinion Journal - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
The "Wartime Journals" of Hugh Trevor-Roper provide fascinating insight into the British scholar as well as the war. Brendan Simms reviews.


Sudan leaders reach rights deal

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
Sudan and South Sudan agree a deal to provide basic freedoms including movement and residency for each state's citizens, African Union mediators say.
Categories: BBC, News

A political tip sheet for the rest of us

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A political tip sheet for the rest of us outside the Washington Beltway for Southern Tuesday, March 13:...

UK considers super long-term bond

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
The government is considering issuing a new "super" long-term bond which it hopes will cut the UK's interest payments for years.
Categories: BBC, News

Born-again Christians dominate GOP vote in AL, MS

AP - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 07:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White born-again and evangelical Christians were dominating Alabama's and Mississippi's Republican presidential primaries on Tuesday, showing up in numbers unsurpassed by any state where voters have been polled so far this year, according to preliminary results of exit polls of voters....
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