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How alleged killer was caught

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
Canadian dismemberment suspect arrested in Berlin internet cafe. CNN's Diana Magnay reports.
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AP: 1940 NY census records now searchable by name

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans are in for a cyber-surprise on Wednesday: They'll be able to plug family names into an online 1940 U.S. census and come up with details about the lives of New Yorkers - from Joe DiMaggio and Jacqueline Kennedy to their own relatives....
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Human remains delivered to 2 Canada schools

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Police said Tuesday packages delivered to two Vancouver schools contained a human foot and hand....

Eyes turn skyward as Venus travels across the sun

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
HONOLULU (AP) -- None of us will likely see Venus pass, like a moving beauty spot, across the face of the sun again....
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Miss. man executed for killing 4 nieces, nephews

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi man convicted of killing four young nieces and nephews in a 1990 stabbing rampage was executed Tuesday, despite pleas from his two sisters to spare the brother who killed their children....
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Miss. man executed for killing 4 nieces, nephews

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi man convicted of killing four young nieces and nephews in a 1990 stabbing rampage was executed Tuesday, despite pleas from his two sisters to spare the brother who killed their children....
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Miss. man executed for killing 4 nieces, nephews

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi man convicted of killing four young nieces and nephews in a 1990 stabbing rampage was executed Tuesday, despite pleas from his two sisters to spare the brother who killed their children....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Miss. man executed for killing 4 nieces, nephews

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi man convicted of killing four young nieces and nephews in a 1990 stabbing rampage was executed Tuesday, despite pleas from his two sisters to spare the brother who killed their children....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Miss. man executed for killing 4 nieces, nephews

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) -- A Mississippi man convicted of killing four young nieces and nephews in a 1990 stabbing rampage was executed Tuesday, despite pleas from his two sisters to spare the brother who killed their children....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Solar-powered plane lands in Morocco

AP - World News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- An experimental solar-powered plane landed in Morocco's capital late Tuesday after a 20-hour trip from Madrid in the first transcontinental flight by a craft of its type....

Wisconsin voters divided on bargaining

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Talk about sharply divided voter attitudes in Wisconsin....

Disney's new diet for kids: No more junk food ads

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
NEW YORK (AP) -- There won't be any more candy, sugary cereal or fast food on TV with the morning cartoons....
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Schools across nation turn their noses up at 'pink slime'

NEW YORK — The nation's school districts are turning up their noses at "pink slime," the beef product that caused a public uproar earlier this year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the vast majority of states participating in its National School Lunch Program have opted to order ground beef ...

Prop 8 may go before high court

Supporters of traditional marriage announced Tuesday they will petition to bring California's Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court after a lower federal court refused to hear an appeal in the case.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied Tuesday a request for ...

First lady walks fine line on NYC drink proposal

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama says banning big servings of sugary drinks isn't anything she'd want to do at the federal level, but she offered some kind words Tuesday for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to do just that. She later issued a statement backing away from taking a stand on New York's controversial proposed ban....
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First lady walks fine line on NYC drink proposal

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama says banning big servings of sugary drinks isn't anything she'd want to do at the federal level, but she offered some kind words Tuesday for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to do just that. She later issued a statement backing away from taking a stand on New York's controversial proposed ban....
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Magnets inside kid ruin intestines

CNN - Top Stories - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
Elizabeth Cohen reports on how high-powered magnets ruin the intestines when swallowed unknowingly by children.
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Voters wait out lines to cast Wis. recall ballots

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The passions that fueled a fight lasting more than a year over union rights and Wisconsin's cash-strapped budget brought voters out in strong numbers Tuesday to decide whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker....
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Voters wait out lines to cast Wis. recall ballots

AP - Politics - Sat, 2025-05-31 07:01
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The passions that fueled a fight lasting more than a year over union rights and Wisconsin's cash-strapped budget brought voters out in strong numbers Tuesday to decide whether to recall Gov. Scott Walker....

Report of first doctor to reach wounded Lincoln discovered

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately.

Leale's long-lost report of efforts ...

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