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EPA heightens scrutiny of Pa.'s Marcellus Shale

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) -- Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso's house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Deportation a risk in Rutgers webcam trial

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Jurors deliberating in the hate-crime trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of webcam spying against his roommate won't be deciding just whether he'll go to prison - they also could indirectly determine whether he's deported to his native India....
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Issue not aired in Rutgers webcam trial: Suicide

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- For all the attention Tyler Clementi's suicide got, it has a place only at the edge of the invasion-privacy trial of the roommate who's accused of using a webcam to spy on his intimate encounter with a man....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
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'Third Jihad narrator plans rally to support NYPD

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
NEW YORK (AP) -- The narrator of "The Third Jihad," a controversial documentary that uses dramatic footage to warn against the dangers of radical Islam, planned to speak at a rally Monday to support the New York Police Department's aggressive counterterrorism efforts, even though city officials have disavowed the film....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Warburton wants 'ruthless' Wales

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
Sam Warburton wants Grand Slam-chasing Wales to impress against Italy to send a message to final opponents France.
Categories: BBC, News

Chelsea embarrassing, says Bevan

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
League Managers' Association boss Richard Bevan says the dismissal of Blues manager Andre Villas-Boas is "a serious embarrassment".
Categories: BBC, News

Wave of Iraq attacks kills police

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
At least 27 policemen have been killed in a wave of shootings blamed on al-Qaeda in the western Iraqi city of Haditha.
Categories: BBC, News

Brain metal level 'beyond belief'

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
An inquest into the death of a woman who lived in a Cornwall town where the water supply was poisoned in the 1980s hears aluminium levels in her brain were "beyond belief".
Categories: BBC, News

AP Exclusive: Obama's transgender ex-nanny outcast

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

AP Exclusive: Obama's transgender ex-nanny outcast

AP - World News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Once, long ago, Evie looked after "Barry" Obama, the kid who would grow up to become the world's most powerful man. Now, his transgender former nanny has given up her tight, flowery dresses, her brocade vest and her bras, and is living in fear on Indonesia's streets....

VIDEO: Prince Harry's boat breaks down

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
Prince Harry was supposed to join the crew of a Royal Bahamian Defence Force patrol boat on a naval exercise but the vessel broke down. He eventually landed on tiny Harbour island, where he greeted crowds of tourists and locals.
Categories: BBC, News

Tropical birds 'face extinction'

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
Between 600 and 900 species of tropical birds could become extinct by 2100 due to climate change, researchers say.
Categories: BBC, News

Vitamin E 'may be bad for bones'

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
Vitamin E supplements may interfere with the process that keeps bones healthy, suggest Japanese scientists.
Categories: BBC, News

Tea party not settled on any one candidate

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
Ask different tea party volunteers in the days before Super Tuesday who the leading presidential candidate is and you will get different answers. Rick Santorum has a lot of support in our unscientific polls, said Mark West of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tea Party.
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VIDEO: How hearing dogs help deaf children

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
A pioneering project has found that giving working dogs to seven to 12 year olds with hearing problems is bringing about some unexpected improvements in their lives.
Categories: BBC, News

Two dead in Australian flooding

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
At least two people are killed and thousands forced from their homes as flooding continues across areas in three Australian states.
Categories: BBC, News

Netanyahu: Time is running out for Iran

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said their nations stand together to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Categories: CNN, News

Checkpoint attacks kill 23 Iraqi police

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
Gunmen in SUVs opened fired on numerous checkpoints in iraq's Anbar province early Monday, killing at least 23 police, authorities in Ramadi and Baghdad said.
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Bomb trial tribute to dead lawyer

BBC - News - Wed, 2026-04-29 20:12
The trial of two men accused of sending parcel bombs to a leading Scottish lawyer who was found dead in his hotel room is postponed as a mark of respect.
Categories: BBC, News
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