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Obama calls student in contraception debate

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called a Georgetown law student whose stand on contraception coverage prompted Rush Limbaugh to deride her as a "slut" on his radio talk show....

Obama calls student in contraception debate

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called a Georgetown law student whose stand on contraception coverage prompted Rush Limbaugh to deride her as a "slut" on his radio talk show....

Obama calls student in contraception debate

AP - Politics - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says President Barack Obama has called a Georgetown law student whose stand on contraception coverage prompted Rush Limbaugh to deride her as a "slut" on his radio talk show....

Obama calls student in slut slur

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
President Obama calls a US law student to offer support after she was attacked by radio host Rush Limbaugh for testifying in support of contraception.
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Two arrests over teenager's death

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
Two men are held by police in connection with the death of a 17-year-old in Greenock two months ago.
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L.A. mayor: Bypass states on No Child Left Behind education waivers

California has decided against applying for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, but local officials in the Golden State still want relief from the widely maligned, decade-old law.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday called on the Obama administration to expand its opt-out program to the individual district ...

Forecasters say Saturday storms 'life threatening'

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
OKLAHOMA CITY (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 from Texas to Minnesota this weekend....
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Ex-Bronco Perrish Cox acquitted of sexual assault

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado jury acquitted former Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox of sexual assault charges on Friday, a verdict that was met with disbelief by the alleged victim....
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Hackers controlled Nasa computers

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
Hackers took "full functional control" of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency's inspector general tells a US congressional committee.
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PSNI lists 'passed to prisoners'

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
Personal details of up to 87 police officers have allegedly been passed to inmates in Maghaberry Prison by a jailed ex-policeman, a court has heard.
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'Horrific neglect' of boy, three

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
The head of a local body responsible for protecting the young from harm says agencies helped to avoid a tragedy involving a three-year-old boy.
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Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation

AP - U.S. News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
HOUSTON (AP) -- Thousands of Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation this year because lakes and rivers remain low after more than a year of drought....
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AP Exclusive: NKoreans skeptical of US nuke deal

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang residents suggest deep cynicism of U.S. intentions....

PM's aide Hilton takes sabbatical

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
Steve Hilton, one of David Cameron's closest advisers, is taking a year's break from Downing Street to take an academic position in the US.
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Opinion: 6 ways U.S. faltered on Syria

CNN - Top Stories - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
As bloody month after bloody month goes by, the United States grows ever more committed to overthrowing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The cause is undoubtedly a just one: Avaaz, the human rights group that has been most deeply involved in the Syria crisis, reported Thursday morning that "17 civilians were beheaded or partially beheaded by regime security forces" outside of Baba Amro, the besieged Homs district that will likely soon fall to al-Assad's tanks, if it hasn't already.
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Grosjean fastest again in testing

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
Lotus's Romain Grosjean sets the fastest time for the second day running at the final pre-season test in Barcelona.
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Spanish deficit tests Europe's fiscal treaty

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The leaders of 25 European countries on Friday signed a new treaty designed to limit government overspending, but their good intentions were immediately put to the test when Spain said it would miss deficit targets this year to spare itself from austerity overload....

Fierce storms leave 28 dead in US

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
At least 28 people are killed in the US states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, as storms and tornadoes sweep across vast parts of the Midwest.
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Iran leader urges strong `message' from elections

AP - World News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader told voters it was their patriotic duty to cast ballots in parliamentary elections Friday to send a message of national unity during a "sensitive period" in the showdown with the West over Tehran's nuclear program....

Fall hospitalises Jack Charlton

BBC - News - Thu, 2025-05-22 03:58
England 1966 World Cup winner Jack Charlton is recovering in hospital after hip replacement surgery following a fall at his home.
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