Times Square bomb suspects arrested in Pakistan

Saturday, May 22, 2010
At least six suspects, wanted in connection with a failed car bomb attempt in Times Square, New York City on May 1, have been arrested by authorities in Pakistan. The arrests follow a visit to Pakistan by two high-ranking American security officials—US National Security Adviser Gen James Jones and Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), both of wRead More…

NFL: Ricky Williams applies for reinstatement

Friday, April 6, 2007
Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams, who has applied for reinstatement to the NFL, told ESPN Radio’s Dan Patrick on Friday that he hasn’t gotten high on drugs “in maybe three years.” Williams credited yoga with replacing drugs to ease stress.
Williams was suspended in April 2006 for violating the NFL’s Substance Abuse Policy. Reinstatement to the league requires clinRead More…

GOES-12 weather satellite fails during adjustment

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The weather satellite GOES-12, which provides most of the weather pictures for the United States, became unusable on Tuesday, December 4. The satellite is positioned in geostationary orbit over the Amazon. A normal station-keeping maneuver to adjust its location was not completed as usual and services could not be continued.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdmiRead More…

Assange seeks asylum in Ecuadorian embassy

Friday, June 22, 2012
Julian Assange, founder of whistle blowing site Wikileaks, has spent a third night in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He entered the embassy on Tuesday to claim asylum, breaking strict bail conditions, after losing an appeal in the British high courts over extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over allegations of sexual assault in 2010.
Assange, 40, awaits a dRead More…

2006 U.S. Congressional Elections

Wednesday, November 8, 2006 Contents 1 Issues
2 Campaigns turn nasty
3 Polling Problems
4 Summaries by state
5 Alabama
6 Alaska
7 Arizona
8 Arkansas
9 California
10 Colorado
11 Connecticut
12 Delaware
13 Florida
14 Georgia
15 Hawaii
16 Idaho
17 Illinois
18 Indiana
19 Iowa
20 Kansas
21 Kentucky
22 Louisiana
23 Maine
24 Maryland
25 Massachusetts
26 Michigan
27 Minnesota
28 Mississippi
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Randall Munroe, writer of xkcd, talks about the comic, politics and the internet

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Randall Munroe is the writer of the popular webcomic xkcd. The comic is known for its geeky humor and minimalist drawing style that generally uses stick figures. Munroe worked as a contractor for NASA before writing xkcd full time in 2006. Wikinews reporter Joshua Zelinsky interviewed Munroe at Vericon, Harvard’s annual science fiction convention. Retrieved from “https:/Read More…

New Mars Orbiter arrives for launch

Wednesday, May 4, 2005
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the latest robotic spacecraft destined for Mars, arrived at Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility on April 30 aboard a C-17 cargo plane and was delivered to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to begin processing. Launching is scheduled for August 10, 2005.
With a mission time line through 2010, the MRO will conductRead More…

Wikinews interviews World Wide Web co-inventor Robert Cailliau

Thursday, August 16, 2007
The name Robert Cailliau may not ring a bell to the general public, but his invention is the reason why you are reading this: Dr. Cailliau together with his colleague Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible so it could grow from an academic tool to a mass communication medium. Last January Dr. Cailliau retired from CERN, the EuropRead More…

U.S. outlaws online gambling

Saturday, October 14, 2006
Over the weekend, millions of Americans faced the new ban of online gambling. The legislation was attached by Rep. Bill Frist to the Port Security bill.
Many of the public companies that offer online gambling have been quick to react and give their outlooks on the legislature. Party Gaming and 888 among others have said that they will shut down all U.S. operations if Read More…

NHL: Vancouver Canucks showcase new uniform

Thursday, August 30, 2007
The Vancouver Canucks, hockey team to Vancouver, British Columbia, unveiled it’s new home and away uniforms today. Keeping the trade-mark Orca, the jersey has remixed the colors as well as adding a green stripe for both the home and away uniforms. This is the 5th jersey the team has gone through since 1970 when the team was founded.
The redesign has been met with some cRead More…