Topic: Elections — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-15 10:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Two big hurdles in the way of Andy Burnham's return to Parliament have been cleared.
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[2026-05-15 10:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: World number one Scottie Scheffler is looking to defend the US PGA Championship after winning at Quail Hollow last year
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[2026-05-15 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Warning: Offensive language
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[2026-05-15 10:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A Democrat running for a newly drawn congressional seat in Texas bills herself as a family therapist — but her resume includes a curious history of astrology-themed “sex therapy.”
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[2026-05-15 10:04 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Suburbs where house values rose most in the past 12 months.
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[2026-05-15 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The US House of Representatives narrowly defeated a Democratic-led resolution aiming to stop the Iran war until hostilities are authorized by Congress, but the effort to rein in US President Donald Trump's military campaign failed by the closest possible margin.
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[2026-05-15 10:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: An attorney for Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom’s ex-aide who pled guilty to her involvement in a $225,000 scheme to steal campaign funds, claims she was only “helping a friend in a hard time” — as the disgraced Sacramento power broker seeks a light sentence for her admitted crimes.
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[2026-05-15 09:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Say, fellas, when you get a chance, do us all a favor and do absolutely nothing. It’s an ASAP matter, but it can wait.
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[2026-05-15 09:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: There's an old adage that says confidence isn't about believing you'll win, it's about being comfortable with the fact you might lose.
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[2026-05-15 09:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Hundreds of comedians have been unpaid by one of the biggest comedy festivals in the UK.
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[2026-05-15 09:11 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Royal finances can feel mysterious, like trying to see what's in a crowded room with very little light. The funding mechanisms are complicated, the language antiquated and much about the income remains under a padlock of privacy.
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[2026-05-15 09:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Scores of fed-up staffers on Jack Schlossberg’s campaign for Congress are fleeing his chaotic “dollar-store” run for office, according to a bombshell report that also revealed the nepo baby ditched key meetings to catch up on his beauty sleep.
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[2026-05-15 08:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Pop star Delta Goodrem has dramatically increased Australia's odds of winning the Eurovision Song Contest, after a stunning performance of her power ballad, Eclipse, at Thursday's semi-final.
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[2026-05-15 08:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Megan Green fills out her ballot in the Nebraska Primary Election at Omaha Community Playhouse Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Rebecca S. Gratz)
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[2026-05-15 08:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Xavier Simons has scored five goals in his senior career, including two for Bolton Wanderers this season
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[2026-05-15 08:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Supreme Court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be accessed by mail.
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[2026-05-15 08:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping had promised him that China would not send military aid to Iran. The leaders held talks in Beijing on Thursday, marking the first visit by a US president to China since 2017.
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[2026-05-15 08:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Andy Burnham will attempt to return to the Commons as an MP, after Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary saying he had lost confidence in Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.
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[2026-05-15 08:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A United Kingdom-based Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood-linked network is behind the global pro-Palestinian campaign, copying the slogans, ribbons, and hostage posters from the Israeli October 7 Massacre hostage advocacy campaign to cast Palestinian security prisoners and convicted terrorists as hostages.
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[2026-05-15 07:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Defending champion Luke Humphries has made three successive night finals to confirm his play-off spot
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[2026-05-15 07:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Lefty mayoral candidate Nithya Raman accused the incumbent Karen Bass of engaging in “pay-to-play politics” over a proposal that would expand who qualifies for short-term rentals in Los Angeles.
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[2026-05-15 07:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The ABC’s The View panel have ripped into Spencer Pratt’s campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, claiming he lacked the political experience to run the nation’s second-biggest city while criticizing his use artificial intelligence for campaign videos.
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[2026-05-15 07:16 UTC+10:00] [Americas] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Pete Hegseth’s last-minute decision to cancel the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland caught Pentagon staff and European allies by surprise — the latest example of an abrupt personnel move from the Defense secretary that blindsided both sides of the Atlantic.
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[2026-05-15 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: It was a day heavy with symbolism in Beijing, marked by choreographed ceremonies and carefully staged optics, but there was no sweeping trade breakthrough or major business agreements.
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[2026-05-15 06:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Green Party leader Zack Polanski did not vote in last week's local elections in London, a spokesperson has said.
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[2026-05-15 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Tens of thousands of Israeli celebrants have marched through Jerusalem's Old City, captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
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[2026-05-15 06:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Five Italians have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, the foreign ministry in Rome has said.
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[2026-05-15 06:42 UTC+10:00] [British politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Britain’s embattled Keir Starmer stared down one leadership rival Thursday lunchtime. Another was banging on his door by nightfall.
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[2026-05-15 06:20 UTC+10:00] [Andy Burnham] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Greater Manchester mayor would need to win Makerfield seat before launching campaign for Labour leadership
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[2026-05-15 06:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The New York Police Department bulldozed more than 200 scooters, mopeds, and motorbikes in Staten Island on Tuesday as part of the city's crackdown on illegal and unregistered bikes.
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[2026-05-15 06:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The 145th FA Cup final takes place at Wembley on Saturday but will it be Manchester City or Chris Sutton's old club Chelsea who get their hands on the famous old trophy?
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[2026-05-15 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Veteran actor Alan Rothwell, best known for playing David Barlow in the original cast of ITV soap Coronation Street, has died aged 89 after a short illness.
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[2026-05-15 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Carrick and Guardiola in attendance for FA Youth Cup final
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[2026-05-15 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California Governor Gavin Newsom presented his final state budget revision on Thursday as if it were the opening ad of his presidential campaign.
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[2026-05-15 05:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The coalition has scheduled to fast-track controversial legislation ahead of the potential passage of the bill to dissolve the Knesset, which was submitted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition late on Wednesday night in a move that could bring the election date forward from October 27.
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[2026-05-15 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Dana Williamson, a former top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, leaves the federal courthouse in Sacramento, Calif., on Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Sophie Austin, File)
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[2026-05-15 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: By Graham Hryce, an Australian journalist and former media lawyer, whose work has been published in The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Sunday Mail, the Spectator and Quadrant.
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[2026-05-15 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The mayor of the Canadian city of Vancouver, Ken Sim, has clarified that artificial intelligence systems are not used to make municipal decisions after remarks about digital assistants handling parts of his workload sparked debate online, local media reported.
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[2026-05-15 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Iraq's parliament on Thursday approved 14 of the candidates nominated by prime minister-designate Ali Al Zaidi for ministerial posts, ending months of political deadlock following the November general election.
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[2026-05-15 04:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A prison warden who abused Kurdish inmates during Saddam Hussein's rule has been sentenced to death in Iraq.
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[2026-05-15 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: BBC Sport has travelled across Italy to tell the Jannik Sinner story.
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[2026-05-15 04:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The Princess of Wales's trip to Italy has been a reminder of how much the royals need her star quality.
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[2026-05-15 04:27 UTC+10:00] [Foreign policy] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on Thursday and discussed topics ranging from market access for U.S. businesses in China to the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-05-15 04:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: In a rebellion defying the priorities of Speaker Mike Johnson, House Democrats have teamed up with two Republicans and an independent in a parliamentary maneuver that will force a vote on a bill that would give another $1.3 billion in military aid and other assistance to Ukraine, as that country continues to lose territory in its war with Russia.
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[2026-05-15 04:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Rapist black-cab driver John Worboys will stay in prison after a parole board ruled that he remained a threat to women.
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[2026-05-15 03:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Andy Burnham is no stranger to Labour leadership contests.
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[2026-05-15 03:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Garrick Higgo is making his fourth appearance at the US PGA Championship
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[2026-05-15 03:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: BRICS member states must join forces to counter the US´ growing “sense of superiority and impunity,” Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday.
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[2026-05-15 03:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: California gubernatorial candidate,Xavier Becerra, D-CA appears at a town hall meeting in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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[2026-05-15 03:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Nigel Farage has said that £5m he received from a billionaire Reform UK donor was given as a "reward for campaigning for Brexit".
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