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Swimming: Why I took the plunge

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
Why swimming can be a life-shaping - and a life-saving - skill
Categories: BBC, News

Hain case end 'free speech win'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
Peter Hain says the dropping of contempt of court proceedings against him for criticising a judge are a "victory for free speech".
Categories: BBC, News

THE RACE: Obama asserts he's in control of agenda

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
Newt Gingrich's dynamic style in his first months of running the House as speaker in 1995 reduced President Bill Clinton to asserting that he was still relevant. Now President Barack Obama seems to be proclaiming much the same thing....

THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both....

THE RACE: Politics a factor in weekend summits

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
President Barack Obama is taking a break from active campaigning for a few days to host back-to-back world summits. Yet U.S. presidential politics will be lurking just offstage at both....

Coroner: RFK Jr.'s wife died of hanging

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- A medical examiner in suburban New York says the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. died of asphyxiation due to hanging....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Justice: Prisons to step up anti-rape efforts

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is ordering federal, state and local prisons to increase efforts to stop prison rape by issuing mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations in hopes of reducing sexual victimization behind bars.

The Justice Department announced the regulations Thursday on the heels of a new study showing ...

Fate of frail patients hinges on Supreme Court

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's health care law, it wouldn't just be politicians dealing with the fallout....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Man admits dead woman's bag theft

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
A man admits stealing a woman's handbag, minutes after she had been knocked down by a lorry and killed in Manchester.
Categories: BBC, News

Obama's likeability a factor in election

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
Despite the heated campaign, lackluster performance on the economy and negative feelings many conservatives have toward President Obama, many voters still like Obama as a person.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Prosecutors give closing argument in Edwards trial

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Prosecutors are saying in closing arguments in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial that he was part of a politically ambitious scheme to take money from wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama as campaigner is 'just another politician'

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
President Obama's re-election team has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal: The outsider who flew above polarized politics now does nothing but campaign and polarize.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Float values Facebook at $104bn

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.
Categories: BBC, News

Issa and DOJ exchange tough words

CNN - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
The partisan impasse over potential contempt proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder continues following a lengthy letter from the deputy attorney general, and a blunt response from the House Oversight Committee chairman.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Vauxhall boost for Welsh workers

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
A deal to secure the future of Ellesmere Port's Vauxhall car plant will give a welcome boost to the estimated 400 workers from north-east Wales.
Categories: BBC, News

Super PAC preparing ads tying Obama to pastor

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sought to distance himself Thursday from a GOP-leaning independent group's plan for a $10 million TV ad campaign renewing attention to President Barack Obama's ties to his controversial former pastor. Obama's campaign accused Romney of failing to show "moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party."...

Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA

TruthNews.US - News - Mon, 2026-05-04 13:50
Courthouse News Service | A federal judge blocked provisions of the 2012 NDAA allowing military to detain anyone accused of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism.
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