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Yahoo News |
11:52pm PDT |
Poll: Many Back Right to Protest Iraq War (AP) |
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Summary: AP - An overwhelming number of people say critics of the Iraq war should be free to voice their objections — a rare example of widespread agreement about a conflict that has divided the nation along partisan lines. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
Court says Sri Lanka election due |
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Summary: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court rules President Chandrika Kumaratunga's term ends this year, paving the way for elections. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
England batsmen face key session |
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Summary: Opener Marcus Trescothick believes England are set to embark on a crucial period of the fourth Ashes Test. |
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BBC News |
11:50pm PDT |
Three dead in Florida hurricane |
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Summary: At least three people die and thousands of homes are left without power as Hurricane Katrina batters Florida. |
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Yahoo News |
11:44pm PDT |
Alleged Trespasser Enters Aniston's Home (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A man who allegedly walked into Jennifer Aniston's home and said he was looking for the actress was arrested Thursday for investigation of trespassing, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:42pm PDT |
Library sues over controversial Patriot Act (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A controversial Patriot Act clause
allowing the U.S. government to demand information about
library patrons' borrowing habits is being challenged in
federal court for the first time by a library. |
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Cnn.com |
11:36pm PDT |
Three dead after Katrina hits Florida |
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Summary: Hurricane Katrina weakened to a tropical storm as it crossed the Florida peninsula early today after roaring ashore in the densely populated southeast area of the state with punishing winds and torrential rain. The storm left at least three people dead in |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PDT |
Report faults dozens of CIA officials-NY Times (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A long-awaited CIA inspector
general's report on the agency's performance before the
September 11, 2001, attacks includes detailed criticism of more
than a dozen former and current agency officials, the New York
Times reported on F |
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Yahoo News |
11:25pm PDT |
Base-Closing Panel to Decide on Air Force (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Only some of the most contentious proposals — all from the Air Force — are left for the federal base-closing commission to accept or reject as it completes work on the Pentagon's nationwide restructuring of military bases. |
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Yahoo News |
11:10pm PDT |
4 Dead As Hurricane Katrina Lands in Fla. (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Hurricane Katrina felled trees, peeled off roofs and left more than 1.3 million customers without power as it slammed into Florida's densely populated southeastern coast Thursday with driving rains and sustained winds of 80 mph. Four people were |
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BBC News |
11:03pm PDT |
Fire at care home is 'suspicious' |
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Summary: Residents and staff at a care home in Cookstown are forced to leave the building overnight because of a fire. |
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BBC News |
11:03pm PDT |
Bomb suspect's extradition appeal |
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Summary: One of the suspected 21 July London bombers is expected to appeal against his extradition from Italy. |
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BBC News |
10:46pm PDT |
Eurostar guards to go on strike |
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Summary: Security guards at Eurostar stations in London and Ashford are to strike over pay on Friday and Saturday. |
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BBC News |
10:39pm PDT |
Warning ahead of August getaway |
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Summary: Travellers are told to expect delays while weather forecasters predict some sun for the August Bank Holiday. |
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BBC News |
10:39pm PDT |
Court signals Sri Lanka election |
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Summary: Sri Lanka's Supreme Court rules President Chandrika Kumaratunga's term ends in December, paving the way for elections. |
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BBC News |
10:39pm PDT |
Men charged with kidnapping boy |
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Summary: Four men are due in court over the alleged kidnapping of a 15-year-old boy from a London street. |
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Cnn.com |
10:24pm PDT |
Armstrong: 'Slimy' French journalism not new |
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Summary: Lance Armstrong remained steadfast Thursday that he has never used performance-enhancing drugs, and he called a French newspaper's allegations that he used a banned substance in 1999 -- when he won the first of seven Tour de France titles -- "preposterous |
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Yahoo News |
10:19pm PDT |
Fire kills 17 in Paris building housing immigrants (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A fire tore through a six-storey Paris
apartment block housing African immigrants on Friday, killing
17 people -- about half of them children, French officials
said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:15pm PDT |
Schilling Shelled as Royals Beat Red Sox (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Curt Schilling got cuffed around in his first start since April and the Kansas City Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 7-4 on Thursday night, their fourth win in five games since snapping a franchise-record 19-game losing streak. |
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BBC News |
10:07pm PDT |
Chinese-EU textile talks resume |
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Summary: Chinese and EU officials hold a second round of talks to ease a backlog of Chinese-made garments. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
19 Suspected Members of MS-13 Gang Are Indicted (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Nineteen men have been indicted on federal racketeering charges in the most aggressive legal assault in the Washington region on a Latino street gang believed by police to be responsible for a growing list of violent crimes. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Political Violence Surges in Iraq (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, Aug. 26 -- Political violence surged Thursday along many of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian fault lines, while Shiite and Sunni Arab political leaders haggled past a third deadline without reaching accord on a draft constitution. |
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Yahoo News |
9:55pm PDT |
Hurricane Katrina punishes south Florida (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Hurricane Katrina hammered Florida's
crowded southeast coast with hours of buffeting winds and
whipping rains, pitching 2 million people into darkness as
power lines came down and killing two. |
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Crosswalk |
9:55pm PDT |
A Christian Case for Gay Marriage? |
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Summary: Unwilling to risk the financial and membership losses that would surely result from an open embrace of homosexuality, mainline denominations inch their way towards a progressive, if inevitable, embrace of homosexual practice. This progressive embrace of t |
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Yahoo News |
9:47pm PDT |
Seventeen killed in Paris apartment block blaze (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A fire tore through a six-storey Paris
apartment block on Friday, killing 17 people -- some of them
children -- and injuring around 30, French officials said. |
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BBC News |
9:46pm PDT |
Scientists probe anti-ageing gene |
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Summary: A team of US scientists say they have found a gene in mice which plays a key role in the ageing process. |
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Yahoo News |
9:26pm PDT |
Power Briefly Cut to 500,000 in Calif. (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Sweltering heat and the loss of power from a key transmission line Thursday forced the utility serving Southern California to impose rolling blackouts, leaving as many as half a million people without power for about half an hour, officials said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:59pm PDT |
Three dead, a million in dark as Katrina hits Florida |
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Summary: Hurricane Katrina lumbered ashore Thursday evening with punishing winds and torrential rain in densely populated southeast Florida, leaving at least three people dead and more than 1 million without electricity. Two men were killed by falling trees, and a |
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Cnn.com |
8:59pm PDT |
Two dead, a million in dark as Katrina hits Florida |
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Summary: Hurricane Katrina lumbered ashore Thursday evening with punishing winds and torrential rain in densely populated southeast Florida, leaving at least two people dead and more than 1 million without electricity. The two fatalities were caused by falling tre |
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Cnn.com |
8:38pm PDT |
Paris apartment fire kills at least 17 |
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Summary: A massive fire has swept through a seven-story Paris apartment building early Friday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22 others, authorities say. |
