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VIDEO: Five Minutes With: Matt Lucas

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
Comedian Matt Lucas talks to Matthew Stadlen about how Little Britain changed his life, working with David Walliams, growing up with alopecia and trying to be funny in public.
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David Suchet's journey to stage classic

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
David Suchet on the play its writer said should never be staged
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Walking 'could treat depression'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
Something as simple as going for a brisk stroll could play an important role in fighting depression, according to researchers in Scotland.
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Why 1 in 5 U.S. adults don't use Internet

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
Even though the Internet has become a key tool for accessing services, getting an education, finding jobs, getting the news, keeping up with people you know and much more, one in five U.S. adults still does not use the Internet at all, according to a new Pew report.
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Maternity pay row after surrogacy

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
A South Yorkshire teaching assistant whose twin daughters were carried by her cousin fights for maternity rights for mothers of children born through surrogacy.
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NJ mayor carries woman out of her burning home

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- In a smoky stairwell, with embers falling from the ceiling and his neighbor slung over his shoulder, Cory Booker called it his "proverbial come to Jesus moment."...
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AP source: Watchdog suggests criminal probe of GSA

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top official of the General Services Administration, already on leave for his role in lavish agency spending, has been referred to the Justice Department for a potential criminal investigation, a congressional committee official said Friday....
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2 shot dead at Alaska Coast Guard base

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
State and federal authorities are investigating the apparent double homicide of a U.S. Coast Guard member and a civilian shot dead Thursday on an island off Alaska's coast.
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US officials: Drone strikes will go on in Pakistan

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House has no intentions of ending CIA drone strikes against militant targets on Pakistani soil, U.S. officials say, possibly setting the two countries up for diplomatic tensions after Pakistan's parliament unanimously approved new guidelines for the country's troubled relationship with the United States....
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Lawyer: Bales won't participate in 'sanity board'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. soldier charged in the shooting deaths of 17 Afghan villagers last month will not participate in an Army review aimed at determining his mental state, his attorney said Friday....
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Lawyer: Bales won't participate in 'sanity board'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. soldier charged in the shooting deaths of 17 Afghan villagers last month will not participate in an Army review aimed at determining his mental state, his attorney said Friday....
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Lawyer: Bales won't participate in 'sanity board'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. soldier charged in the shooting deaths of 17 Afghan villagers last month will not participate in an Army review aimed at determining his mental state, his attorney said Friday....
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Lawyer: Bales won't participate in 'sanity board'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
SEATTLE (AP) -- The U.S. soldier charged in the shooting deaths of 17 Afghan villagers last month will not participate in an Army review aimed at determining his mental state, his attorney said Friday....
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Obama will play defense at Summit of Americas

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Barack Obama will be on the defensive heading into this weekend's Summit of the Americas, with the U.S. stubbornly clinging to positions opposed by most Latin American and Caribbean leaders as its influence in the region wanes. The American president, who arrived in this steamy Caribbean port Friday afternoon, can expect even some of Washington's friendliest allies to protest U.S. insistence on excluding communist Cuba from the gathering....

Abortion is key US political flashpoint as laws tighten

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
Abortion debate looms large in US election campaign
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Forecasters say Saturday storms 'life threatening'

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) -- In an unusually early and strong warning, national weather forecasters cautioned Friday that conditions are ripe for violent tornadoes to rip through the nation's midsection from Texas to Minnesota this weekend....
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Cops find charred body in CA home after standoff

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Police found a body Friday inside a fire-gutted California home where a suspect had barricaded himself after a deputy and a civilian were shot and killed....
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Attorney: Tulsa suspect not motivated by race

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A defense attorney says a man facing murder and hate crime charges in a Tulsa shooting spree that killed three people and terrorized the city's black community wasn't motivated by race....
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VIDEO: Scientists count penguins from space

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
An international team of scientists has been using high resolution satellite images from space to count penguins.
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Eye-in-sky helps count penguins

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 04:38
There are nearly 600,000 emperor penguins in Antarctica - twice as many as was previously thought - according to a new satellite survey.
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