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Minorities not looking for 'payback'

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Ruben Navarrette Jr. says following a recent CNN.com story on minority births passing white births in the U.S., people like Rush Limbaugh see the changing demographics as a threat. But they have nothing to fear.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Russian spam mastermind jailed

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.
Categories: BBC, News

School buildings plans announced

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Fewer than half of the schools in England which applied for money for rebuilding work have been successful.
Categories: BBC, News

Buyer found for recycling firm

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
A buyer is found for a recycling company which went into administration in February with the loss of 30 jobs.
Categories: BBC, News

Trust accepts hospital criticisms

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
The Northern Health Trust says it accepts the recommendations of two independent reports which criticised practices at Antrim Area hospital.
Categories: BBC, News

Is contentment slowing SF growth?

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Martina Purdy looks at some of the challenges facing Sinn Fein.
Categories: BBC, News

Children create menu for Queen

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Beefeater's Delight, Golden Carriages and Luv'lee Jub-lee Bub'lee will be served to The Queen at a Diamond Jubilee reception at Buckingham Palace in June.
Categories: BBC, News

The diversity of Elizabeth Warren

Personhood is distilled not to the content of character but only to race, ethnicity, gender or sexual preference.

Man fined for eating rare eagle

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Conservationists in the Philippines express outrage over what they say is a lenient punishment for a farmer who shot and ate a rare eagle.
Categories: BBC, News

Man arrested in Etan Patz death

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Pedro Hernandez confessed to killing 6-year-old New Yorker Etan Patz and was arrested, police said. Friday marks 33 years since Patz vanished.
Categories: CNN, News

The joylessness of shopping

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Will they regulate consumption at the Rio+20 summit?
Categories: BBC, News

Gov't taking new steps to combat food stamp fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards.

The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice ...

Martinez 'offered Liverpool job'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Wigan owner Dave Whelan believes Roberto Martinez has been made an offer by Liverpool to take over as manager.
Categories: BBC, News

Posh play gets political makeover

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Playwright Laura Wade updates her 2010 play Posh to reflect the changing political climate for its West End transfer.
Categories: BBC, News

Yahoo launches visual search app

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Yahoo tries to attract search queries via a new service which offers visual webpage previews rather than lists of links
Categories: BBC, News

VIDEO: Button sets pace at wet Monaco

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Watch highlights from both Thursday practice sessions for the Monaco Grand Prix as Ferrari's Fernando Alonso is fastest in the morning while Jenson Button leads the way in a rain-affected second session.
Categories: BBC, News

Somalia's leaders agree deadline

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Leaders of Somalia's disparate factions agree a historic deal to elect a new president by 20 August to end the country's two-decade political crisis.
Categories: BBC, News

Man arrested in 1979 disappearance of NYC boy Patz

NEW YORK — In a break in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, former convenience-store employee Pedro Hernandez has told police that he suffocated 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 and left the boy's body in a box in an alley, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

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Co-op to create 3,000 legal jobs

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
The Co-operative Group announces plans to create 3,000 new jobs, as part of an expansion of its legal services.
Categories: BBC, News

AUDIO: Father on 999 call of murdered Emily

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-02 16:16
Mark Longley told 5 live that if people had taken his daughter's boyfriend's threats seriously she might still be alive.
Categories: BBC, News
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