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Why it matters to Brits

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
For anyone arriving in Britain, it's obvious that the country is having a big, big party. There are Union Jack flags across the streets, bunting hangs from building to building and, in the stores, the shelves are crammed full of jubilee memorabilia.
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TV star Richard Dawson dies at 79

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
Richard Dawson, the English-born actor and TV host who found fame in the US at the helm of game show Family Feud and in sitcom Hogan's Heroes, dies.
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Spectacle on the river

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
Sights and sounds of the largest flotilla in 350 years makes its way down the river Thames.
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After gory incidents, online 'zombie' talk grows

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man's face. Then Texas: a mother accused of killing her newborn, eating part of his brain and biting off three of his toes. Then Maryland, a college student telling police he killed a man, then ate his heart and part of his brain....
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After gory incidents, online 'zombie' talk grows

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- First came Miami: the case of a naked man eating most of another man's face. Then Texas: a mother accused of killing her newborn, eating part of his brain and biting off three of his toes. Then Maryland, a college student telling police he killed a man, then ate his heart and part of his brain....
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Clinton draws no conclusions on Iranian warning

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's not drawing any conclusions about what effect the latest hash words from Iran might have on the potential success of upcoming nuclear talks in Moscow....
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Clinton draws no conclusions on Iranian warning

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's not drawing any conclusions about what effect the latest hash words from Iran might have on the potential success of upcoming nuclear talks in Moscow....
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Governments should 'put small firms first'

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
Boss urges new moves to help economy grow
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Off-colour Djokovic edges through

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
Top seed Novak Djokovic comes from two sets down to beat Andreas Seppi and reach the French Open quarter-finals.
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The Republicans’ secret weapon on LOST: information

The U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty, which passed the Senate Foreign Relations committee with a unanimous vote in 2004 but failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority in the full Senate, is already in for a bigger fight this year. Longtime treaty critic Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) now sits on the committee, as do staunch conservatives including Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), James Risch (R-Idaho) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), all of whom expressed opposition to the treaty at a recent hearing.

“I think we’re in pretty good shape,” Inhofe told Human Events. “If you look at the committee, the vast majority of Republicans on the committee were opposed to the ratification. I can assure you that there will be seven Republicans that will be voting against it.”

Inhofe said a provision whereby an international authority would collect royalties for oil and gas production and other activities on the continental shelf, then redistribute proceeds to treaty members, would represent the first multi-national tax levied on the U.S. He’s convinced that others will see it his way if the facts are laid out clearly.

“I said to (Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry) that I wanted at least one hearing with witnesses that are against (the treaty),” Inhofe said. “And he said, ‘I’ll do it.’”

Inhofe has requested that former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and Heritage Foundation fellow Steven Groves sit on the panel; Kerry mentioned the president of the Heritage Foundation, Ed Feulner, as a third member.

While some have said the treaty will gain traction with Republicans during the November lame duck session, Inhofe believes the opposite: that moderate Democrats will be emboldened to oppose the treaty after the elections. “To give up jurisdiction over 70 percent of the earth’s surface to the United Nations is something that we are not going to let happen,” Inhofe said.

Greene: The stranger on queen's bed

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
Bob Greene says a 1982 invasion of the queen's protective bubble shows that even the exalted can't count on hiding away
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Opinion: Rubio's hypocrisy

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
How does Sen. Marco Rubio curry favor with Hispanic voters and burnish his Tea Party credentials? Charles Garcia explains
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Boats take to Thames for queen's jubilee flotilla

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
LONDON (AP) -- On a luxury barge festooned with flowers, Queen Elizabeth II sailed down the River Thames on Sunday amid a motley but majestic flotilla of 1,000 vessels, mustered to mark her 60 years on the British throne....

Boats take to Thames for queen's jubilee flotilla

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
LONDON (AP) -- On a luxury barge festooned with flowers, Queen Elizabeth II sailed down the River Thames on Sunday amid a motley but majestic flotilla of 1,000 vessels, mustered to mark her 60 years on the British throne....

'Family Feud' host Dawson dies

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
Richard Dawson, the longtime host of "Family Feud," has died, his son said in a statement Sunday. He was 79.
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Al-Qaida leader recalls bin Laden's 'generosity'

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
CAIRO (AP) -- Osama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks, according to recollections from his deputy and successor posted online late Saturday...

Al-Qaida leader recalls bin Laden's 'generosity'

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
CAIRO (AP) -- Osama bin Laden spent all his personal wealth on jihad, considering meat and electricity as luxuries so he could save his money to help fund terror attacks, according to recollections from his deputy and successor posted online late Saturday...

Claims over police records leak

BBC - News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
The leak of two Cleveland Police chiefs' medical records is likely to have come from their police authority, it is alleged.
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Pomp, pageantry

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
The Thames became a sea of red, white and blue as tens of thousands celebrated the diamond jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Egypt prosecutor to appeal Mubarak trial verdicts

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-24 13:20
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's top prosecutor is appealing the verdicts in the trial of Egypt's ousted president and others, acquitting Hosni Mubarak and his two sons on corruption charges and clearing senior police officers of complicity in killing protesters, an official said on Sunday....
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