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Iran-6 power nuke meeting begins

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
MOSCOW (AP) -- Iran and six world powers have launched a new attempt to break deadlocked negotiations meant to reduce international tensions over Tehran's nuclear activities....

Breivik judge playing solitaire

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
One of the judges in the case of Anders Behring Breivik, the mass killer on trial in Norway, is caught on camera playing solitaire in court.
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Soledad puts UFC fighter in choke hold

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
CNN's Soledad O'Brien put UFC fighter, "The California Kid", Urijah Faber in a sleeper hold on Starting Point.
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Supreme Court protects Secret Service agents

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that two Secret Service agents are shielded from a lawsuit filed by a man they arrested after a confrontation with then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

The 8-0 decision comes in a case that began with the arrest of Steven Howards following a chance encounter ...

Tables turn on zombie prankster

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
A man dressed as a zombie chases and growls at people in Miami, but tries to run up and scare the wrong group of guys.
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Study: Childhood cancer survivors face new risks

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
CHICAGO (AP) -- Women treated with chest radiation for cancer when they were girls have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than previously thought, doctors warn....
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Zelizer: Obama strategy not working

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
President Obama's reelection campaign got off to a rocky start with his attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital, says Julian Zelizer
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Libyan militia takes control of Tripoli airport

AP - World News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- A group of disgruntled militiamen took over the country's main airport on Monday, storming it with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles and forcing airport authorities to divert flights, a security official said....

Opinion: Cyberwar on your desktop

CNN - Top Stories - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
Douglas Rushkoff says the recently discovered Flame virus aimed at Iran has hallmarks of a nation-state-concocted cyber attack, but what's to keep this kind of malware from eventually being aimed at civilian populations?
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Putin backs new rules on protests

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
Russia's President Putin says he wants to see European legal norms for political protests in Russia, after big opposition rallies.
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New arrest over party girl death

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
A teenager is arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the death of a 15-year-old girl in Liverpool.
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Shares drop again on weak US data

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
Stock markets fall after weaker-than-expected jobs data from the US on Friday triggered concerns about the global economic recovery.
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AP Photos: Iconic 'napalm girl' photo turns 40

AP - U.S. News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
The Vietnam War had been raging for years. On June 8, 1972, a single photo communicated the horrors of the fighting in a way words could never describe, helping to end one of the most divisive conflicts in American history....
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Obama, Clinton to headline trio of NYC fundraisers

AP - Politics - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is getting a little help from former President Bill Clinton at a trio of campaign fundraisers in New York....

Walker moves toward win in recall election

MADISON, Wisc. — With under 24 hours to go before the polls open in Wisconsin, there is growing agreement on the eventual outcome of the special election for governor: that embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker will not only survive the challenge from Democrat Tom Barrett, but do so quite comfortably.

A weekend Rasmussen Poll showed Walker leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett among likely voters by a margin of 50-to-45 percent statewide.  Monday, a Marquette Poll showed Walker leading Barrett 52 to 45 percent, the largest lead for the 43-year-old governor in any survey since last year, when labor unions—furious at the legislature’s enactment of Walker-crafted measures to limit collective bargaining among some public sector employees and require them to pay for a greater share of their retirement and health benefits—collected more than twice the signatures on petitions required to place Walker on the Badger State ballot again.

On Sunday night, a survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm, showed Republican Walker leading Democrat Barrett by a margin of 50-to-47 percent.

“The governor has  barnstormed the state, getting up early and working until late at night, and never retreating from conservative principles,” veteran Republican consultant Scott Becher told Human Events Sunday, “He has not strayed from his message.  And his months of hard work pushing Wisconsin are paying off.”

Little reported in the national press is the fact that the state’s first woman lieutenant governor and three GOP state senators who backed Walker on his controversial reforms are also facing the voters Tuesday.

Republican sources who spoke to Human Events generally agree that Lieutenant Governor and former television reporter Rebecca Kleefisch will overcome Democrat Mahlon Mitchell, a Firefighters Union leader.  But they also expressed concern over the fates of GOP Sens. Terry Moulton (Chippewa Falls) and Van Wanggard (Racine), whom unions and the Democrats have targeted for extinction.

“If either of them goes down Tuesday, then Democrats win control of the Senate,” said Becher, noting that Republicans and Democrats are now tied in the Senate, with 18 seats each and one vacancy.  “And that would make it more difficult to pass any further reform legislation dealing with public sector employees.”

Also on the ballot in a recall election Tuesday is State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, one of the key players in securing passage of the Walker proposals and the brother of Assembly Speaker Jerry Fitzgerald.  Also on the ballot is the special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Sen. Pam Galloway.  Republican State Rep.  Jerry Petrowski is favored in the Wausau-area district.

With White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Democratic National Chairman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz downplaying any possible impact of a Walker triumph on national politics, it is nonetheless very likely that they and their allies on the left will trumpet a Democratic takeover of the senate as proof that Walker’s conservative agenda was not endorsed completely by Wisconsin voters.  For now, the governor and his Republican allies are, to use a phrase of Ronald Reagan’s, “cautiously optimistic.”

Flame attack 'sought Iran data'

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
The attackers behind the massive Flame malware sought to gather technical drawings from Iran, researchers say.
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Police search for sex attacker

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
Police launch an investigation in Swansea after a woman is seriously sexually assaulted and another is approached nearby 24 hours later.
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Facebook 'may allow' under-13s

BBC - News - Fri, 2025-05-23 22:01
Facebook may soon allow children younger than 13 years old to access the site under parental supervision, reports say.
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