Thursday, August 8, 2013 Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who recently announced her intention to run as the Peace and Freedom Party’s nominee for governor of California in 2014, took some time to answer five questions from Wikinews reporter William S. Saturn. Sheehan is best known for her active opposition to the War in Iraq following […]
Saturday, January 28, 2006File:TragediaKatowice06.jpg The roof of a trade hall in Metropolian Katowice (district Chorzów and Katowice), Poland has collapsed. Officials said there are at least 67 fatalities and at least 160 people were injured. More than 125 people are still believed to be trapped inside the building. “Luckily nothing happened to me, but I
Trade hall roof collapses in Poland
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Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 crashed 1,750km (1,100 miles) north-west of Rio de Janeiro killing all people onboard, on Friday September 29. National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has confirmed that the crashed Brazilian airplane did crash into a smaller aircraft. Rescue workers and air force personnel are searching the wreckage for
Rescue workers search wreckage of Brazilian air crash
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More On This Topic: Mobility Aids Australia Submitted by: David H. Urmann Disneyland is a popular theme park all over the world. It takes its visitors to fantasy land. Here is a guide about these parks and accommodation options nearby. Disneyland is one of the most popular man-made attractions around the globe. It is also
Thursday, August 7, 2008 Across Easter weekend Wellington, New Zealand was host to Rock2Wgtn, an international two-day hard rock festival. Large crowds showed up at Westpac Stadium to see the various acts. The world has never seen an event of this kind before, and New Zealand has never had any kind of major rock festival
Wikinews interviews Flame about special effects at New Zealand’s Rock2Wgtn festival
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Thursday, June 30, 2011 A report issued Wednesday by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University finds the top public health problem in the United States is teen drug abuse, including the use of alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, marijuana and other controlled substances. According to the study’s authors, “The study looks
Report finds teen substance abuse is top public health problem in US
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Saturday, January 14, 2017 At 1:30 a.m. on Thursday morning the United States Senate voted to include the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, as part of a budget blueprint. This procedural measure allows most of Obamacare to be repealed by a simple majority rather than the usual requirement of 60
Late-night vote sets Obamacare up for filibuster-free repeal
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007File:Nadine Strossen 5 by David Shankbone.jpg There are few organizations in the United States that elicit a stronger emotional response than the American Civil Liberties Union, whose stated goal is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of
ACLU President Strossen on religion, drugs, guns and impeaching George Bush
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This is the online suicide letter authored by Andrew Stack, the man believed to be responsible for flying a light aircraft into a building in Austin, Texas. It was originally posted at Stack’s site, http://embeddedart.com/. The hosting company, T35, took the site offline per an FBI request. The note is reproduced here in its entirety.
Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas/suicide note
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Saturday, May 22, 2010 US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has given federal prosecutors until next Friday to respond to the request of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his brother Robert to delay their corruption trial. The trial is set to begin on June 3, and many of the charges they face are
Former Illinois governor Blagojevich asks US Supreme Court to delay corruption trial, prosecutors to respond by Friday
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