Senator Ted Stevens loses re-election bid in Alaska ballot
March 26, 2023
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Until last Wednesday, Mayor Begich was trailing in the count Image: Bernard Pollack.Alaskan U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, who turned 85 yesterday, narrowly lost his re-election bid to Mark Begich, the Democratic Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. Meanwhile, as Alaska's counting of the November 4 election is almost complete, Democratic challenger for the US House of Representatives, Ethan Berkowitz, conceded to incumbent Don Young, the Republican Party nominee. With this result, the Democrats are...
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Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, say scientists
March 25, 2023
Saturday, October 5, 2019 In findings published on Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and University of South Carolina Beaufort, both in the United States, reported warming seas appear to decrease the efficacy of the chemical compounds that corals release into the water to defend themselves from bacteria and encroaching seaweed, but these losses may be mitigated if there are large numbers of hungry fish around. A. millepora showed greater...
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Wikinews interviews Mark Bunker, producer of anti-Scientology website ‘XenuTV’
March 23, 2023
Monday, February 18, 2008 Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website www.xenutv.com (XenuTV), Mark Bunker, also known as Wise Beard Man, chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview our most attended IRC interview to date. Bunker started XenuTV in 1999 and began to make videos that he provided for the Lisa McPherson Trust. Bunker has been...
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Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
March 22, 2023
Tuesday, September 6, 2022 Liz Truss in November 2021 Image: FCDO.Tuesday, Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Truss became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Boris Johnson. On Monday, the Conservative Party elected her as its new leader. Truss met with Queen Elizabeth II Tuesday at Balmoral Castle, the Queen's summer residence in Scotland, where she proposed forming a new government and the Queen accepted. Prior to this, Johnson also met with the Queen and tendered...
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On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2020
March 22, 2023
Monday, November 2, 2020 The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories. This month's spotlight on the campaign trail: the Free and Equal Elections Foundation holds two presidential debates, three candidates who did not participate in those debates give their final pleas to voters, and three political pundits...
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Category:January 10, 2008
March 21, 2023
? January 9, 2008 January 11, 2008 ? January 10 Pages in category "January 10, 2008" Media in category "January 10, 2008" Retrieved from "https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:January_10,_2008&oldid=2959816"
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Greek police arrest more than 60 people for gold smuggling
March 20, 2023
Saturday, December 1, 2018 On Wednesday, Greek police announced they arrested 63 people for gold smuggling. According to a report from Associated Press (AP), police seized cash, gold bars, and other items, totaling about two million euros (roughly 2.3 million US dollars). Police said on Friday the police operation, started on Tuesday, involved 50 homes and 30 stores. Police accused the suspects of buying stolen gold from foreigners who allegedly robbed homes. Police said the scheme...
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California releases search warrant for Wells Fargo bank on identity theft
March 17, 2023
Saturday, October 22, 2016 The California Department of Justice on Wednesday released the warrant and affidavit of a criminal investigation of the Wells Fargo bank. The State of California served the warrant on October 5 to search the San Francisco headquarters of Wells Fargo for felonious activities related to identity theft. File photo of Wells Fargo's corporate headquarters in San Francisco, 2007. Image: Laimerpramer.The warrant said property to be seized at the bank's San Francisco headquarters...
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Japanese H-IIA rocket launches satellite into orbit
March 13, 2023
Saturday, February 18, 2006 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has successfully launched another of their H-IIA space rockets. Its payload, the MTSAT-2 satellite designed to control air traffic and track weather patterns, has successfully separated from the rocket. It is due to be inserted into a geostationary orbit on the 21st of February. The satellite is owned by the Civil Aviation Bureau and the Japan Meteorological Agency, part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport....
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“A commonsense proposal”: Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820
March 13, 2023
Marijuana plants. Image: Jennifer Martin.Wednesday, February 1, 2023 On March 7, voters in the US state of Oklahoma will decide on State Question 820, the Marijuana Legalization Initiative. If the initiative passes, adults 21 and older could own up to an ounce (28.35 grams) of recreational marijuana and cultivate "not more than six (6) mature marijuana plants and six (6) seedlings" in their homes, and some convictions for marijuana possession could be expunged. The state's profits...
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