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Gay, lesbian supporters cheer Obama at fundraiser

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- President Barack Obama basked in the support of his gay and lesbian backers Wednesday night, revving up an enthusiastic crowd with a pledge to block any attempt to roll back rights that gay Americans have gained under his administration....

Gatwick numbers rise post-volcano

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
Gatwick Airport served 33.8 million passengers in the year to the end of March, a rise of more than two million on the previous year.
Categories: BBC, News

Boston Marathon preps for hot temps

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
Before they can bask in glory, Boston Marathon runners on Monday will first bake in abnormally high temperatures -- so warm, in fact, that race organizers are taking several steps to warn participants and allow those concerned about the heat to instead run next year.
Categories: CNN, News

4 hearings this week on agency's spending scandal

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A culture of wasteful spending by the General Services Administration, the real estate agency for federal buildings, comes under scrutiny at four congressional hearings this week....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Cab company to break bus lane ban

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
A minicab company asks its drivers to drive in the bus lanes in London but TfL calls the actions "utterly irresponsible".
Categories: BBC, News

C. Guard ends search for 4 missing yacht racers

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday night for four yacht crew members who went missing off the Northern California coast after a weekend racing accident and has no plans to resume it, officials said....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

100 years later, Titanic's sinking affects many

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In ships on the Atlantic Ocean, at a gathering in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, and at services around the world, people are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

100 years later, Titanic's sinking affects many

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In ships on the Atlantic Ocean, at a gathering in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, and at services around the world, people are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic....

100 years later, Titanic's sinking affects many

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
ABOARD MS BALMORAL (AP) -- In ships on the Atlantic Ocean, at a gathering in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast, and at services around the world, people are commemorating the sinking of the Titanic....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Jury selection starts in Clemens retrial

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
Federal prosecutors will take another crack at former Major League pitcher Roger Clemens, some nine months after a mistrial was declared in his perjury trail.
Categories: CNN, News

Self-defense claim in killings of 77

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
The man accused in the deaths of 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Norway last summer admitted the killings as his trial began Monday. "I was doing it in self-defense," Anders Behring Breivik said.
Categories: CNN, News

What Romney can do to rally Santorum voters

After a long and bruising Republican primary season, two things are clear: Mitt Romney is the nominee but he is still having trouble closing the deal with many conservative voters.

Tata makes £800m steel investment

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
The Indian steel giant Tata is set to spend £800m at its Welsh plants over the next five years, with the first minister calling it a "tremendous vote of confidence".
Categories: BBC, News

Attacker in Afghan uniform kills US soldier

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a U.S. soldier in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed on Friday, military officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack....

Doolittle's Raid survivors' 70th reunion in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The jovial banter and storytelling will halt, and guests will be ushered out of the meeting room, the door shutting behind them....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Doolittle's Raid survivors' 70th reunion in Ohio

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
CINCINNATI (AP) -- The jovial banter and storytelling will halt, and guests will be ushered out of the meeting room, the door shutting behind them....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

NYC man faces terror trial

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's no dispute that Adis Medunjanin and two of his former high school classmates from Queens packed up and traveled together to Pakistan in 2008....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

'Chin-job' fever takes hold in US

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
Chin implants are the fastest growing type of cosmetic procedure in the US according to plastic surgeons.
Categories: BBC, News

First team of UN monitors arrives in Syria

AP - World News - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
GENEVA (AP) -- The advance team of six U.N. observers has arrived in Damascus to monitor Syria's 4-day-old cease-fire, International envoy Kofi Annan's spokesman said Monday....

Rebels: City shelled during cease-fire

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 15:00
The first members of a U.N. observer team will begin their work in Syria on Monday, tasked with monitoring a tenuous cease-fire that is showing signs of collapse.
Categories: CNN, News
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