Wikinews interviews Mike Lebowitz, chairman of the U.S. Modern Whig Party

5 February, 2023

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Friday, July 17, 2009 According to the Pew Research Center, a non-advocacy organization that evaluates issues, attitudes and trends shaping the political landscape of the United States, centrism is on the rise in America. According to Pew, the number of Americans identifying themselves as independents has reached the highest level in 70 years. Recently 36% […]

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Market maker Bernard L. Madoff arrested in $50B ‘giant Ponzi scheme’

1 February, 2023

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 Correction — January 10, 2009 This article incorrectly states that Mr Madoff attended Hofstra University Law School. His education was actually with Hofstra College, which he graduated from in 1960.  Friday, December 12, 2008 Top broker and Wall Street adviser Bernard L. Madoff, aged 70, was arrested and charged by the FBI on Thursday with a […]

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Category:Featured article

30 January, 2023

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Shortcut:WN:FA Featured articles are selected by the community to represent the best of Wikinews. See the Featured Article Candidates page for nominations and discussions of candidate articles for this page. Or, subscribe to the RSS feed! [edit] Pages in category “Featured article” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Featured_article&oldid=2870736”

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Virgin Atlantic jet fire investigation finds faulty wiring in A340 fleet

30 January, 2023

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 Investigators in Ireland have found wiring problems in several Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340s as part of their investigation into a fire on board one such aircraft that was forced to divert to Shannon Airport. The Virgin jet was headed from London Heathrow Airport to Chicago with 143 passengers and thirteen crew […]

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5-year old American girl dies after visiting the dentist

28 January, 2023

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Friday, September 29, 2006 Diamond Brownridge, a 5-year old girl from Chicago, Illinois, has died after a visit to the dentist. Children’s Memorial Hospital officials say that the girl was rushed to the hospital when she never woke up after being sedated for a dental procedure. She had been in a coma, on life support, […]

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Category:July 26, 2010

26 January, 2023

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? July 25, 2010 July 27, 2010 ? July 26 Pages in category “July 26, 2010” Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Category:July_26,_2010&oldid=1849130”

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Main Page/Sandbox4

23 January, 2023

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Relief efforts continue Over 116,000 are reported dead in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and other regions. As international aid begins to flow to the region, casualties caused by outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and related diseases, as well as by increasingly unsanitary conditions, threatens to push the death toll even […]

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China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

22 January, 2023

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009 […]

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Free Software Foundation announces release of gNewSense version 1.0

21 January, 2023

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Thursday, November 2, 2006 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced today the release of the first version of gNewSense, a new GNU/Linux distribution based on both Ubuntu and Debian. The goal of the newly created distribution is to offer an operating system which is 100% proprietary software free. Generally, GNU/Linux distributions comes with proprietary […]

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