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Film review: The Lorax

It's no secret that Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) leaned a little to the left.

Fleming estate signs 007 deal

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
Ian Fleming's James Bond back catalogue is getting a relaunch after his estate signs new book deal.
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The myth of 'middle-class' Uncle Joe

The nation's vice campaigner in chief went on the attack against Republicans this week, clad in full populist armor.

Three parties submit Rangers bids

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
The former Rangers director Paul Murray and Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy are among three parties to have made bids for Rangers.
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Chinese state TV targets McDonald's, Carrefour

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state television has accused McDonald's and French retrailer Carrefour of selling expired chicken products in separate incidents amid public anxiety in China over food safety....

Funeral of cricket ball death boy

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
The funeral of a Dorset schoolboy who was struck on the head with a cricket ball is being held later.
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Ministers 'mull top rate tax cut'

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
Chancellor George Osborne is considering cutting the 50p top rate of income tax in next week's Budget, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.
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Oil near $106 as US denies plan to release crude

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices rose slightly to near $106 a barrel Friday in Asia after the U.S. denied reports it and Britain plan to release some their strategic crude reserves....

VIDEO: Sutherland leaves Jack Bauer behind

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
Kiefer Sutherland's admits his new television role is very different from 24's counter-terrorist agent, Jack Bauer but he has been able to find some similarities.
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SC mom expected to plead guilty in sons' deaths

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina mother was expected to plead guilty Friday to charges she suffocated her two young sons before driving her car into a river in an attempt to cover up their deaths. The case has eerie similarities to that of another mother from the state now serving life in prison....
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Thousands of greyhounds 'vanish'

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
A BBC investigation uncovers huge gaps in how greyhound racing is regulated in Northern Ireland.
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Mervyn Davies loses cancer fight

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
Former Wales captain and Lions star Mervyn Davies dies following a battle with cancer at the age of 65.
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Details emerge about US suspect in Afghan massacre

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
He is the suspect without a name, his identity as shadowed now as the night the Army says he slipped into a pair of slumbering Afghan villages and slaughtered 16 civilians whose safety was his assigned mission....

Rush and the new blacklist

The original "Hollywood blacklist" dates back to 1947, when 10 members of the Communist Party, present or former, invoked the Fifth Amendment.

VIDEO: MasterChef winner is unveiled

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
TV cooking competition MasterChef crowns Shelina Permalloo as its 2012 winner, beating fellow finalists Andrew Kojima and Tom Rennolds.
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Shooting victim's widow in spotlight after verdict

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- When a Georgia judge sentenced a former General Electric supervisor to life in prison without parole for killing his subordinate's husband outside a preschool, the case seemed far from closed....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Shooting victim's widow in spotlight after verdict

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- When a Georgia judge sentenced a former General Electric supervisor to life in prison without parole for killing his subordinate's husband outside a preschool, the case seemed far from closed....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Royal A&E issues 'need addressed'

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-06-18 01:32
The son of an elderly man who died unnoticed in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital A&E unit speaks to the BBC.
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