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'Largest' shark anglers praised

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
Two sea anglers are praised for releasing what could be be the largest shark ever caught in British waters.
Categories: BBC, News

Opinion: Keystone as political red meat

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
David Burwell says Congress should resist the temptation to use the project as an opportunity for political brinkmanship
Categories: CNN, News

Japan makes games piracy arrest

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
Nintendo says Japan has used a new law to crack down on adapters that allow the use of pirated games.
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Miller's joy at Orange Prize win

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
Debut novelist Madeline Miller has won the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction with The Song of Achilles, a story of same-sex romance set in the Greek age of heroes.
Categories: BBC, News

Prove Mitt's not a unicorn, group says in satirizing 'birthers'

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
Call them "unicorners." A liberal group says it has collected more than 19,000 emails requesting Arizona officials to confirm Mitt Romney is not a unicorn.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

VIDEO: Anglers hook '550lb shark'

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
Two anglers claim to have hooked a '550lb' Porbeagle shark off north Cornwall.
Categories: BBC, News

Parents charged over fire deaths

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
The parents of six children who died in a house fire in Derby are due in court after being charged with their murder.
Categories: BBC, News

Best of the Web Today: Lost in America

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
Why "likability" isn't enough in a president.


FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers....

FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers....

FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk

AP - Politics - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the three years since President Barack Obama took office, Republicans have made the Environmental Protection Agency a lightning rod for complaints that his administration has been too tough on oil and gas producers....

Palast in London with Warren Ellis to launch Vultures' Picnic: June 26

Greg Palast - Articles - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28

Greg Palast, Warren Ellis, Anna Chen, Laurie Penny
London - 26 June - ULU 'The Venue' at 7pm - 9 pm

Greg Palast will be joined by special guests Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein), Anna Chen (Madam Miaow Says - Blog), Laurie Penny ( of The New Statesman, Penny Red), John Hilary (War on Want) and Nick Dearden (Jubilee Debt Campaign)

… for the launch of the UK edition of Palast's new book,
Vultures' Picnic: A Tale of Oil, High Finance and Investigative Reporting…

In association with Jubilee Debt Campaign, Greenpeace and Occupy London.

Seats are very limited, so reserve yours here now.

A minimum donation of £10 gets you admission and a signed copy of Palast's new book, Vultures' Picnic.
£5 minimum donation for admission only.

Vultures’ Picnic is an eye-opening, heart-pumping, mind-blowing experience that should not, MUST not, be missed. - Nomi Prins

Download and read Chapter 1: Goldfinger.
Or you can pre-order Vultures' Picnic here.

If you have friends in London make sure they don't miss this.

See you in London,
Greg

For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com

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Freed French reporter: rebels treated me well

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
SAN ISIDRO, Colombia (AP) -- A French journalist released to a humanitarian delegation by leftist rebels Wednesday said he was treated well during a monthlong captivity that began when he was trapped in a firefight....

Music presenter freed in Zimbabwe

BBC - News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
BBC Radio 3 music presenter Petroc Trelawny is freed from police custody in Zimbabwe but faces charges of breaking immigration laws.
Categories: BBC, News

Mubarak's sons face new charges of insider trading

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's two sons were accused Wednesday with insider trading in a new case opened just three days before they and their elderly father are to hear the verdict in a separate trial on charges of corruption and complicity in killing protesters during last year's uprising....

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
BEIRUT (AP) -- When the gunmen began to slaughter his family, 11-year-old Ali el-Sayed says he fell to the floor of his home, soaking his clothes with his brother's blood to fool the killers into thinking he was already dead....

Israel's Barak: Weigh 'unilateral action'

AP - World News - Thu, 2026-04-30 19:28
JERUSALEM (AP) -- There are signs the Israeli government is considering taking unilateral action if peace talks with the Palestinians remain stalled, a move which could involve a withdrawal from parts of the West Bank along the lines of a 2005 pullout from the Gaza Strip....
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