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Lady Gaga won't change show for protests: manager

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Lady Gaga's manager says the pop diva has no plans to tone down her act, even if that prevents her from performing in some countries on her Asian tour....

Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles....

Clinging to the Constitution and the Fight for First Amendment Rights

In 2008, then-Sen. Obama apologized for saying that people from small towns in Pennsylvania "cling to guns or religion" when faced with tough economic conditions.

VIDEO: Man admits to killing NY boy

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
A man has confessed to suffocating a six-year-old boy who went missing in New York in 1979, police say.
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Israeli immigration protest turns violent

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant.
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Bud nears Mexico, now a tropical storm

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
"Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion," forecasters warn has Hurricane Bud nears Mexico's Pacific coast.
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Brotherhood claims lead as Egypt vote count begins

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood has quickly staked a claim for its candidate to advance to a runoff vote, saying its exit polls showed him leading in Egypt's landmark presidential election to succeed ousted leader Hosni Mubarak....

Papers analyse Hunt's BSkyB memo

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
Papers focus on Jeremy Hunt's memo on Murdoch
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Days after deaths, another crowd attempts Everest

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A wave of climbers has headed for the summit of Mount Everest, and several people have already made it in what is expected to another busy weekend on the top of the world....

One-time top Calif. football prospect exonerated

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than five years....
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Unions threaten to ground the airline industry

A giant of the airline industry is weathering a quiet coup by labor groups, eyeing fatter checks and deeper dues.

Police blockade Papua New Guinea's Parliament

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- Police in Papua New Guinea blockaded Parliament on Friday, a day after Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's government leveled sedition charges against the country's chief justice....

Rivals claim Egypt run-off places

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
The Islamist Muslim Brotherhood candidate for president is likely to face former PM Ahmed Shafiq in a run-off, after Egypt's first free presidential election.
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Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) -- Hurricane Bud strengthened into a major storm Thursday night as it churned toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on the Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta....
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Jeremy Hunt 'fair' over BSkyB bid

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's main aim was to "reach a fair and unbiased decision" on News Corp's bid for broadcaster BSkyB, his department's most senior civil servant tells the Leveson Inquiry.
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Japan's fugitive penguin caught

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium is caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital.
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Mom of 3 kids abandoned in shed found

CNN - Top Stories - Tue, 2025-06-17 08:27
Three children -- all apparently 3 years old or younger -- were found in a shed among a group of homeless people. Police in Oregon now say they located the mother.
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Obama's Land of the LOST

What's green and blue and grabby all over?
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