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Pentagon halts free guns for police, orders audit

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
The Defense Department has stopped issuing weapons to thousands of law enforcement agencies until it is satisfied that state officials can account for all the surplus guns, aircraft, Humvees and armored personnel carriers it has given police under a $2.6 billion program, The Associated Press has learned....
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'Freakish' injury ends Triple Crown run

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
In what he called a "freakish" development, a trainer said the horse got tendonitis. He'd been expected to make a run for the Triple Crown at Belmont on Saturday.
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U.S. attorneys take over leak probes

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
Attorney General Eric Holder assigned two U.S. attorneys to lead investigations into possible leaking of state secrets. President Obama earlier denied a White House role.
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Pickles' tips for 'tatty' shops

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles tells rundown shopping parades in England how to sharpen up their act in a move branded "patronising" by Labour.
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Massacre traces in Syrian village

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
A BBC correspondent finds evidence of human remains at the village of Qubair in Syria, scene of a massacre reported on Wednesday.
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The confessions of an ex-sex kitten

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
In her teens and 20s, she saw sex as a simple game of conquest. Today she'd rather stay home than wake up with a stranger. What changed? Lisa Dierbeck traces her evolution from vamp to veteran.
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Oil prices slide on economy fears

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
Oil prices dropped to $98.06 in London - their lowest in 17-months on fears of waning economic growth in China.
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E. coli makes 14 sick in 6 states

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
Federal health officials say 14 people in six states have been sickened by the same strain of E. coli over the past couple of months.
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Facebook gets in the app biz

CNN - Top Stories - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
Make room, Apple, Google and Amazon. One more major Internet player now has an app store.
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Princes visit Philip in hospital

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry visit their grandfather, Duke of Edinburgh, in hospital, Clarence House says.
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VIDEO: Jet stream driving UK storms

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
Strong winds and heavy rain have been battering the UK the last few days. BBC Weather's Chris Fawkes explains how it's all because of the jet stream.
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Grenada trying to find remains of slain Marxist PM

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) -- A haunting Cold War mystery is getting a fresh look on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where officials are trying to locate the missing remains of a Marxist prime minister executed nearly 30 years ago during a coup that sparked a U.S. invasion....

VIDEO: England players visit Auschwitz

BBC - News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
England players visit the nearby Nazi death camp Auschwitz ahead of Euro 2012.
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Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
MOSCOW (AP) -- Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia....

Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
MOSCOW (AP) -- Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia....

Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
MOSCOW (AP) -- Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia....

Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
MOSCOW (AP) -- Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia....

Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
MOSCOW (AP) -- Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia....

Putin's hard line against protests to be tested

AP - World News - Sun, 2025-05-18 16:16
MOSCOW (AP) -- Helmeted riot police round up hundreds of protesters, including some whose only apparent crime is wearing white ribbons of opposition. A teacher who spoke out about election rigging is dragged into court and fined. Now a new law signed by President Vladimir Putin on Friday raises fines for participating in unauthorized protests 150-fold, to nearly the average annual salary in Russia....
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