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Gruesome video details Syria horror

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
CNN's Ivan Watson has the latest updates and gruesome video of the violence in strife-torn Syria.
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Taliban insurgents attack NATO base in Afghanistan

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban insurgents detonated a truck bomb, then tried to storm a NATO base Friday in eastern Afghanistan, but coalition forces repelled the attack, killing 14 militants, officials said....

Taliban insurgents attack NATO base in Afghanistan

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban insurgents detonated a truck bomb, then tried to storm a NATO base Friday in eastern Afghanistan, but coalition forces repelled the attack, killing 14 militants, officials said....

Theron gives 'Snow White' some spine

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
Twice upon a time: Hollywood's second stab at "Snow White" this season has an entirely different feel to the campy Julia Roberts and Lily Collins version "Mirror Mirror" we saw back in March.
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Theron gives 'Snow White' some spine

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
Twice upon a time: Hollywood's second stab at "Snow White" this season has an entirely different feel to the campy Julia Roberts and Lily Collins version "Mirror Mirror" we saw back in March.
Categories: CNN, News

Srebrenica deaths 'not genocide'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
Serbia's new President, nationalist Tomislav Nikolic, denies that the Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Bosnia in 1995 was genocide.
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VIDEO: Sweden's 10-year-old science star

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
A Swedish chemistry professor's 10 year-old son has his name put on a research paper in a scientific journal after helping his father solve a complex chemistry problem.
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Feds to rule on cancer aid for WTC dust exposure

NEW YORK — A federal health official is expected to decide within days whether to expand an aid program for anyone sickened by World Trade Center dust to cover cancer, a move that would be cheered by many former ground zero workers, but could also prove costly and come at ...

Feds to rule on cancer aid for WTC dust exposure

NEW YORK — A federal health official is expected to decide within days whether to expand an aid program for anyone sickened by World Trade Center dust to cover cancer, a move that would be cheered by many former ground zero workers, but could also prove costly and come at ...

'No signal' from targeted ET hunt

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
Astronomers use a high-resolution radio technique for the first time to hunt for signals from potentially habitable planets - but turn up nothing.
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Early birth 'risks mental health'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
Being born prematurely is linked to an increased risk of a range of mental health problems later in life, according to researchers.
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Around world, Bloomberg soda war hard to swallow

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
LONDON (AP) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in restaurants, delis and movie theaters in the hopes of combating obesity. Under his plan, sugary drinks would be limited to 16 fluid ounces - almost half a liter....

Around world, Bloomberg soda war hard to swallow

AP - World News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
LONDON (AP) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks in restaurants, delis and movie theaters in the hopes of combating obesity. Under his plan, sugary drinks would be limited to 16 fluid ounces - almost half a liter....

Week in pictures: 26 May - 1 June 2012

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
News photos from around the world
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Obama says he regrets 'Polish death camp' gaffe

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland this week....

Obama says he regrets 'Polish death camp' gaffe

AP - Politics - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Barack Obama has written a letter to the Polish president expressing "regret" for an inadvertent verbal gaffe that caused a storm of controversy in Poland this week....

China 'arrests high-level US spy'

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
A Chinese security ministry official has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, Hong Kong media reports say.
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French hunt 'killer' porn actor

BBC - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19
French police are searching for a Canadian porn actor wanted over the murder and dismemberment of a man in Montreal.
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Cell phone location data

FourthAmendment.com - News - Mon, 2025-05-26 03:19

Speaking of the "mosaic theory":

Most cell phone providers keep location data for a year. AT&T has it going back to 2008.
--Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, The Cato Institute (June 1, 2012)

As cells get smaller, the tracking data gets more accurate.
--Greg Najeim, Senior Counsel, Center for Democracy & Technology (June 1, 2012)

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