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Zuckerberg's Facebook story is study in contrasts

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
When Hollywood set out to tell the story of how Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, it enjoyed the flexibility of portraying a man who, despite his social network's worldwide reach, was all but unknown to the public....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

'Go to anger classes or get shot'

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
A Londonderry man claims republican vigilantes told him to go to anger management classes or get shot.
Categories: BBC, News

Sorkin to write Steve Jobs biopic

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is to write the script for Sony Pictures' upcoming biopic of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Categories: BBC, News

Students in tornado-hit Ind. town await 'Lady A'

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tornadoes battered their school and their homes. Their spring break was filled with cleanup and recovery work that has only just begun. But for one night, students at a southern Indiana high school hope to put all that aside to enjoy an evening that one of country music's biggest acts planned just for them....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Kodak lab had weapons-grade uranium

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
Kodak -- the company known for decades for its cameras and film -- this week confirmed it used weapons-grade uranium in an underground lab in upstate New York for upwards of 30 years.
Categories: CNN, News

Apology over 'body parts trauma'

BBC - News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
A senior police officer apologises for the distress caused to families following the revelation that the PSNI kept body parts and tissue samples in 64 cases of suspicious and unexplained deaths.
Categories: BBC, News

McNamee turned on Clemens over son's illness

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Brian McNamee testified that Roger Clemens' lawyers pushed him from reluctant turncoat to angry accuser when they allowed details of McNamee's oldest son's illness to be revealed during a nationally televised news conference....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Expert says DNA on medical waste matched Clemens'

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A forensic scientist testified Friday that two cotton balls and a syringe needle allegedly saved after a steroids injection tested positive for Roger Clemens' DNA, a key moment as the government tries to prove the former pitcher used performance-enhancing drugs....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Race, age questions fuel Miss World Fiji fiasco

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny. And now, with the 16-year-old's crown lost, one of the judges says the contest was rigged from the start....

Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race - with four short words....

SPIN METER: Rivals airbrush anti-Romney words

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against Obama?...

SPIN METER: Rivals airbrush anti-Romney words

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against Obama?...

SPIN METER: Rivals airbrush anti-Romney words

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Remember Newt Gingrich calling Mitt Romney a liar? Michele Bachmann saying Romney's unelectable? Rick Santorum calling Romney "the worst Republican in the country" to run against Obama?...

Race, age questions fuel Miss World Fiji fiasco

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
First came complaints that the winner of the Miss World Fiji pageant looked too Western to represent her country. Then her age came under scrutiny. And now, with the 16-year-old's crown lost, one of the judges says the contest was rigged from the start....

China TV blames Dalai Lama for Tibet immolations

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
BEIJING (AP) -- China has released a documentary accusing the Dalai Lama of orchestrating a wave of self-immolations by Tibetans, in its most elaborate attempt so far to shape international opinion about the protests against Chinese rule....

Deputies: Fla. mom killed 4 kids, then herself

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) -- In the middle of the night, Tonya Thomas' neighbors awoke to the sound of a gunshot and moments later heard a knock on their door....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Crossroads announcing $25 million ad push

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day....

Heavy focus on news shows in presidential race ads

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- "Tell President Obama: Stop the spending," screams an ad running during the broadcast of NBC's "Today" show in central Virginia. At a break during ABC's "The View," Mitt Romney is praised in a different spot for his "strong leadership."...

Crossroads announcing $25 million ad push

AP - Politics - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day....

South African police seize 10 rhino horns

AP - World News - Tue, 2026-05-05 01:27
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A South African police spokesman says officers tipped off by an anonymous informer forced their way into a Johannesburg apartment where they found 10 rhinoceros horns and an elephant tusk and arrested a Vietnamese man....
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