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'Politics of Scarcity' Permeates Obama Energy Policy, Pushes America Away from Self-Sustainability

Data and technology show a much different picture and different energy future is possible.

AUDIO: Syria: 'Assad does not understand peace'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
The BBC's Ian Pannell reports from Idlib province in northern Syria as UN observers arrive to monitor the fragile ceasefire
Categories: BBC, News

Obama's Buffett rule impact on taxes, jobs

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itself would directly affect only a tiny fraction of Americans....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama's Buffett rule impact on taxes, jobs

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itself would directly affect only a tiny fraction of Americans....

VIDEO: Breivik trial begins in Norway

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
The man who carried out a bomb and gun attack in Norway last year, which left 77 people dead, has gone on trial in Oslo.
Categories: BBC, News

Horror as daughter finds needles

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
A Belfast mother speaks of her horror after her nine-year-old daughter came home carrying needles thought to have been abandoned by drug addicts.
Categories: BBC, News

Footballer bailed after bar brawl

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
Footballer El Hadji Diouf is one of six men arrested and bailed over an alleged fight in a Manchester bar in which a 33-year-old man was injured.
Categories: BBC, News

In pictures: Smuggling fuel by sea in West Africa

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
Illicit trade in West Africa
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More than 70% of high earners paid 50% tax rate

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
Most high earners paid top tax rate, says Treasury
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Obama defends typically GOP states in race to 270

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
President Barack Obama begins his re-election campaign defending traditionally Republican territory that he carried when he won the White House four years ago. Republican Mitt Romney is looking to reclaim any combination of these GOP strongholds now in flux....

Long political fights ahead over dueling tax plans

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans are forcing votes in Congress this coming week on competing tax plans that affect millionaires and smaller businesses, and they know the proposals are doomed from the start....

Maine voters seek female senator. Enter Angus King

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one....

Maine voters seek female senator. Enter Angus King

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Independent Senate candidate Angus King of Maine has a woman problem. He's not one....

Airline staff meet over job fears

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
British Midland workers at George Best Belfast city airport go into consultation with the company's new owners about possible job losses.
Categories: BBC, News

Shoe-thrower interrupts Breivik trial

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- An Iraqi man whose brother was killed in Norway's worst peacetime massacre hurled a shoe at the confessed killer and urged him to "go to hell" in a rare outburst Friday that briefly interrupted the terror trial of Anders Behring Breivik....

Warnings credited in Midwest tornado outbreak

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
THURMAN, Iowa (AP) -- Concerned that Midwesterners might be complacent after repeated tornado warnings came to nothing, forecasters issued a sternly worded alert, well in advance, that weekend storms could prove fatal....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama, Romney focus on fundraising

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
Fresh into second quarter fund-raising, both President Barack Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney will make the rounds this week in hopes of puffing up their coffers.
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As ice cap melts, militaries vie for Arctic edge

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, long-dreamed-of sea lanes and a slew of potential conflicts....

'No, no, no': Hard sell for possible Clemens juror

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man whose response to jury duty was "No, no, no, no, no" and who said he would rather be sleeping was nevertheless found qualified to remain a potential juror in Roger Clemens' perjury trial, which won't finish seating a panel before Monday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Feds bulk up to retry Clemens over drug testimony

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:03
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department, embarrassed by blundering into a mistrial of Roger Clemens last year, has added more prosecutors as it tries again to convict the famed pitcher of lying to Congress when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US
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