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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
Patients to get GP rating |
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Summary: Patients in England will be able to check how well their GP surgery is performing when new figures are published. |
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BBC News |
11:53pm PDT |
China to close 7,000 coal mines |
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Summary: China suspends production at a third of its coal mines, in an effort to reduce the huge number of fatal accidents. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Ex-offenders 'face job struggle' |
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Summary: A third of employers will not hire ex-offenders or those with a history of drug abuse or long-term illness, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
11:39pm PDT |
Sex offender register reform call |
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Summary: Police suggest that people accused of sex offences could be put on a register before they appear in court. |
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Yahoo News |
11:23pm PDT |
Bush Expected to Visit Storm-Ravaged Areas (AP) |
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Summary: AP - President Bush is expected to visit storm-ravaged areas of the Gulf Coast later this week, but first he is returning to Washington to oversee the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. |
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BBC News |
11:11pm PDT |
Computer alert for drowning girl |
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Summary: Lifeguards save a girl from drowning at the pool in Bangor after a computer system raises the alert. |
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BBC News |
11:11pm PDT |
School arson attack 'sectarian' |
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Summary: An arson attack on a Catholic primary school in Ballymena is being treated as sectarian by police. |
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Yahoo News |
10:48pm PDT |
Athletics Edge Angels 2-1 in 11 Innings (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Bobby Kielty homered leading off the 11th inning Tuesday night to carry Oakland to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels and run the Athletics' winning streak to seven. |
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Yahoo News |
10:45pm PDT |
Mariners Clobber Yankees 8-3 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Shawn Chacon put the New York Yankees into too much of a hole to climb out of. Ichiro Suzuki hit a three-run homer in a five-run second inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Yankees 8-3 Tuesday night. |
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Crosswalk |
10:40pm PDT |
The New Fertility Divide--What's Happening in Canada? |
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Summary: The nation of Canada is something of a mystery to most Americans. The U.S. and Canada share many dimensions of culture, language, heritage, and history. Nevertheless, the two cultures are also significantly different--as any visitor across the border will |
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Yahoo News |
10:27pm PDT |
Oil Prices Surge Above $70 a Barrel (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Reports of extensive damage and photos of fallen oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico sent crude oil prices surging above $70 Wednesday, as the realities of the long-term damage from Hurricane Katrina began to sink in. |
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BBC News |
10:23pm PDT |
Oil prices stay high post Katrina |
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Summary: Oil prices remain near record highs after the first reports show extensive damage to facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. |
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Yahoo News |
10:21pm PDT |
5 dead, 36 hurt in attacks on Iraq mosque-police (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Mortar rounds killed five and wounded
36 people attending an important Shi'ite religious ceremony in
Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:18pm PDT |
Boeing Union Advises Machinists to Strike (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Leaders of more than 18,000 Machinists are advising workers to reject Boeing Co.'s final contract offer and strike — a scenario a top Boeing executive called devastating to the company's prospects. |
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Yahoo News |
10:06pm PDT |
Padres Defeat Diamondbacks 5-3 (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Joe Randa hit a go-ahead home run leading off the sixth inning and Brian Giles had a three-run shot in the first for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Tuesday night to take a 5 1/2-game lead in the NL West. |
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BBC News |
10:03pm PDT |
Japan's election campaign begins |
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Summary: Campaigning starts in Japan ahead of an election set to be fiercely fought over economic reform. |
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BBC News |
10:03pm PDT |
Aceh rebels released from jail |
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Summary: Indonesia frees more than 200 rebels, as part of a peace deal aimed at ending the conflict in Aceh province. |
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BBC News |
10:03pm PDT |
Football: Gerrard recovery boost |
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Summary: England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is hopeful Steven Gerrard will be fit to face Wales. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Looting, Fires And a Second Evacuation (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 30 -- This exodus was even more desperate than the first. |
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Yahoo News |
10:00pm PDT |
Storm Cleanup May Be Biggest In U.S. History (washingtonpost.com) |
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Summary: washingtonpost.com - Charities and the federal government launched what aid agencies predicted could be the longest and costliest relief effort in U.S. history, as workers began arriving last night in states devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and as the U.S |
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BBC News |
9:33pm PDT |
Clarke 'will get Tories in power' |
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Summary: Former chancellor Ken Clarke says he is the man to get the Conservative party back in power. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09pm PDT |
Iraq war costs more per month than Vietnam - report (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. war in Iraq now costs more
per month than the average monthly cost of military operations
in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, according to a report issued
on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
9:07pm PDT |
Palestinian assets in US frozen |
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Summary: A court freezes the Palestinian Authority's US assets, in a compensation case over a 1996 killing. |
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Yahoo News |
8:40pm PDT |
New Orleans flooded, hundreds feared dead in hurricane (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - Army engineers raced to staunch
rising floodwaters submerging historic New Orleans as
helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops and
hundreds were feared dead on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina
tore across the U.S. Gulf Coast. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31pm PDT |
Boeing Union Urges Machinists to Strike (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Boeing Co. on Tuesday presented what it called its final contract offer to more than 18,000 Machinists, whose leaders promptly urged the workers to reject the proposal and strike. |
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Yahoo News |
8:16pm PDT |
Massive Storm Damage Found in Alabama (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Floodwaters that engulfed the Alabama coast receded Tuesday, laying bare the stark extent of misery brought by Hurricane Katrina: Cement slabs where homes once stood, a 100-foot shrimp boat smoldering on its side, people searching for swept-away keep |
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Crosswalk |
8:10pm PDT |
Freepers Slam KTKZ Poll Tonight |
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Summary: The KTKZ Poll has been 'slammed' by the Freepers; thanks for the hits. BTW, the four days leading up to tonights 'poll slamming rally', the answer "More Undeserved Media Attention for Cindy Sheehan" was defeating "Support for Our Troops and War on Terrori |
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Crosswalk |
8:10pm PDT |
When You're Going Through Hell |
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Summary: Wise words from Winston Churchill for those who find themselves in a bad place right now. |
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Yahoo News |
8:06pm PDT |
New poll finds Bush Iraq ratings down (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush's approval
rating slipped to a career low of 45 percent on concerns over
the Iraq war and spiraling U.S. fuel prices, according to an
ABC News/Washington Post poll published on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:36pm PDT |
Mets Top Phils 6-4, Wild-Card Tightens (AP) |
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Summary: AP - The New York Mets returned home with a dramatic victory that made the National League wild-card race even tighter. |
