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CA doc faces rare murder charges for prescriptions

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities allege the doctor passed out prescriptions for drugs like Xanax and OxyContin, Vicodin and Adderall, at a rate of 25 per day for three years, with only cursory patient examinations and a minimum of questions....
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Classes resume after Ohio shooting

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
The cafeteria table where the deadly Ohio high school shooting began became a somber memorial for grief-stricken students returning for Friday first full day of classes since the incident.
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Housewives dismissal trial begins

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
Former Desperate Housewives actress Nicollette Sheridan has told a jury she was 'shocked and humiliated' after being hit in the head by the show's creator.
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Men charged over football chants

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
Two men are charged after reports of offensive chanting on the day of the Hearts versus Celtic game in Edinburgh last month.
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Israeli PM probed on luxury trips abroad

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's state comptroller has questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over allegations of taking lavish, privately paid trips abroad while serving in public office....

Nigeria to bury ex-Biafra leader

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
Thousands of people gather in south-eastern Nigerian for the funeral of former Biafran secessionist leader Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.
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Redknapp could tempt Scholes back

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
Gary Pallister says Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is the only manager who could tempt Paul Scholes to return for England.
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Oil boom and a kidnapping alter Montana town

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....
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Oil boom and a kidnapping alter Montana town

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Barclays taps ECB for 8.2bn euros

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
Barclays confirms that it borrowed 8.2bn euros (£6.7bn) from the European Central Bank in low-interest three-year loans.
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Everest hero highlights flood threat in Himalayas

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
TATOPANI, Nepal (AP) -- Before Apa became a legendary Sherpa mountaineer, he was a humble Himalayan potato farmer who worked his fields in the Everest foothills until without warning, raging floodwaters swallowed his farm....

CA doc faces rare murder charges for prescriptions

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities allege she passed out prescriptions for drugs like Xanax and OxyContin, Vicodin and Adderall, at a rate of 25 per day for three years, with only cursory patient examinations and a minimum of questions....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Australian PM axes rival's supporter from ministry

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pulled a veteran politician out of retirement and named him foreign minister Friday in place of Kevin Rudd who tried to oust her during a chaotic, short-lived rebellion in the ruling Labor Party....

Australian PM axes rival's supporter from ministry

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
SYDNEY (AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pulled a veteran politician out of retirement and named him foreign minister Friday in place of Kevin Rudd who tried to oust her during a chaotic, short-lived rebellion in the ruling Labor Party....

Family, students mourns man's death in Iraq school

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
COSMOPOLIS, Wash. (AP) -- Jeremiah Small spent six years teaching at a private Christian school in northern Iraq, sharing his love of history, literature and Jesus with the primarily Muslim students in his classes. He didn't worry about his safety, even if his family in Washington state did....
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Family, students mourns man's death in Iraq school

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
COSMOPOLIS, Wash. (AP) -- Jeremiah Small spent six years teaching at a private Christian school in northern Iraq, sharing his love of history, literature and Jesus with the primarily Muslim students in his classes. He didn't worry about his safety, even if his family in Washington state did....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Family, students mourns man's death in Iraq school

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
COSMOPOLIS, Wash. (AP) -- Jeremiah Small spent six years teaching at a private Christian school in northern Iraq, sharing his love of history, literature and Jesus with the primarily Muslim students in his classes. He didn't worry about his safety, even if his family in Washington state did....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

European states sign new fiscal treaty

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The leaders of 25 European states on Friday signed a new treaty designed to prevent the 17 euro countries from living beyond their means and prevent a repeat of the currency union's crippling debt crisis....

Repairs after car ferry grounded

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
A ferry that had been helping to ease travel in part of the Highlands after a road was shut is to be repaired after it ran aground.
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AP Exclusive: NKoreans skeptical of US nuke deal

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:59
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease, but interviews with North Koreans show they are skeptical of U.S. intentions....
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