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BBC News |
10:23pm PST |
Olympics: Turin set for Games |
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Summary: The Olympic flame will burn again when the 20th Winter Games begins in Turin, Italy, on Friday. |
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BBC News |
9:46pm PST |
Japan PM 'suspends' royal plans |
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Summary: Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi reportedly suspends plans to introduce a bill allowing women on the throne. |
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Cnn.com |
9:27pm PST |
Libby: My 'superiors' authorized leaks |
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Summary: Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, told a grand jury he was "authorized by his superiors" to disclose classified information from an intelligence report to reporters, according to the special prosecutor in the CIA lea |
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BBC News |
8:23pm PST |
Climate 'warmest for millennium' |
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Summary: The northern hemisphere is uniformly warmer now than at any time in the past 1,200 years, new research shows. |
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Cnn.com |
7:28pm PST |
8 Olympic skiers, including two Americans, suspended |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details. |
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Cnn.com |
6:10pm PST |
U.S. hostage pleads, 'Do whatever they want' |
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Summary: Abducted American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video broadcast on Kuwaiti television Thursday, urging the U.S. government to meet her kidnappers' demands. "I'm here. I'm fine. Please, just do whatever they want. Give them whatever they want as qu |
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ChristianPost |
3:34pm PST |
Violent Protests Show No Rest Despite Calls for End |
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Summary: Thousands of angered Muslims plan to continue their worldwide demonstrations until an apology is made over the published caricatures of Muhammad in the European media.
Rallies made no pause and Western flags kept burning Thursday as Hezbollah leader ... |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:25pm PST |
Alabama House Rejects Bible Literacy Bill, Generating Mixed Reactions |
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Summary: The Alabama House has rejected a bill that would have required public high schools offering a Bible elective course to use a controversial textbook published by the Virginia-based Bible Literacy Project. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:24pm PST |
Southern Baptists Minister to Flock of Torched Alabama Church |
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Summary: Southern Baptist churches in one rural Alabama county are coming to the aid of one of the black churches that was torched by arsonists earlier this week. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:23pm PST |
Marriage Education Advocate Applauds Federal Funding to Build Healthy Families |
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Summary: Diane Sollee, founder and director of SmartMarriages.com, says she is pleased that Congress has approved $750 million in funding to help build stronger, healthier marriage and family relationships. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:22pm PST |
Dad Says His Son 'Damaged' by Homosexual Indoctrination at State-Sponsored Program |
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Summary: Two Christian parents say their son was a victim of homosexual indoctrination at the prestigious "Governor's School of North Carolina." |
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OneNewsNowPress |
1:21pm PST |
Author's 'Modern Fable' Explores How Churches Can Find Their Purpose |
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Summary: The president of the largest church program for children in America says many churches across the United States have slipped into a purposeless existence. |
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CTI News |
1:00pm PST |
Weblog: Evangelical Statement Gets Globally Warm Reception |
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Summary: Plus: NAE wants in on Air Force case, Church of England debates divestment, Wisconsin may ban intelligent design, and other stories from online sources around the world. |
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CTI News |
1:00pm PST |
Mark Noll Leaving Wheaton for Notre Dame |
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Summary: Prominent evangelical historian and public intellectual to replace retiring George Marsden. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
10:42am PST |
Iranian Paper Plans Holocaust Cartoons |
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Summary: An Iranian newspaper said Tuesday it would hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of Muhammad. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
10:41am PST |
Liberal Media Bias Still Strong |
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Summary: According to recent reports, when the majority of the nation's news outlets are considered, the U.S. media continue to show their leftist colors. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
10:40am PST |
February 9, 2006 |
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Summary: Appeals court asked to overturn ban on school board prayers ... Internet a virtual 'lifeline' for defenseless unborn children ... FCC: 'A la carte' cable definitely a viable solution ... Evangelicals ask to intervene in lawsuit against Air Force Academy . |
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OneNewsNowPress |
10:40am PST |
Stay on the Farm, Jimmy! |
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Summary: Jimmy Carter needs to retire from public speaking. He needs to retire and pick peanuts. He can even talk to the peanuts about his some of his nutty statements recently as far as I am concerned. But his attack on President George W. Bush at Coretta Scott K |
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Yahoo News |
10:36am PST |
Bush Says Cooperation Thwarted 2002 Attack (AP) |
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Summary: AP - President Bush said the U.S.-led global war on terror has "weakened and fractured" al-Qaida and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled purported terrorist plans to fly a commercial airp |
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Yahoo News |
10:34am PST |
Feared bird flu virus spreads in Nigeria (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has spread to four farms in Nigeria, amid fears that a disease which has already killed more than 80 people in Asia will cause an Africa-wide epidemic. |
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Cnn.com |
10:33am PST |
Bush: U.S. thwarted al Qaeda attack in L.A. |
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Summary: Shortly after 9/11, al Qaeda began planning to use shoe bombers to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles, President Bush said today. "By working together, we stopped a catastrophic attack," he said. The details w |
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Yahoo News |
10:26am PST |
Briton arrested in UK after US wife, baby murdered (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A British man has been
arrested in London on suspicion of murdering his wife and
infant daughter in Massachusetts and prosecutors said on
Thursday the shooting deaths may have been intended as a
murder-suicide. |
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BBC News |
10:24am PST |
Dutch MP backs Muhammad cartoons |
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Summary: A Somali-born Dutch MP who calls herself a "dissident of Islam" defends the Danish Muhammad cartoons. |
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Yahoo News |
10:19am PST |
Suicide Bomber Hits Shiite Procession (AP) |
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Summary: AP - A suicide bombing ripped through a Shiite Muslim procession Thursday in northwestern Pakistan, sparking riots during the Muslim sect's most important holiday. At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured in the violence, officials said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03am PST |
'American Idol' Crushes Grammys in Ratings (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Some humbling news for the pros: By a wide margin, TV viewers prefer the amateurs. |
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Yahoo News |
10:01am PST |
Rahlves Fastest on Tough Downhill Course (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Only the world's most cunning and experienced speedsters tame this Olympic downhill, as American Daron Rahlves and Austrian Hermann Maier showed Thursday during the first official training run. The Kandahar Banchetta course is rugged, rigorous a |
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ChristianPost |
9:58am PST |
Green Evangelicals Stand Against Global Warming |
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Summary: WASHINGTON - Evangelicals are newly rising up to the good-old, biblical commandment to be stewards of God's creation by joining the environmentalists' call to stop global warming.
"Love of God, love of neighbor, and the demands of stewardship are |
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Yahoo News |
9:58am PST |
Rivals concede ex-president leads Haiti election (Reuters) |
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Summary: Reuters - A number of Haitian
presidential candidates conceded on Thursday that former
President Rene Preval appeared to be heading for an easy
victory in the first election since Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
ousted two years ago. |
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Yahoo News |
9:57am PST |
Hamas joins call for calm in cartoon row (AFP) |
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Summary: AFP - The radical Palestinian group Hamas joined voices for calm in the international furore sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, as a Taliban commander in Afghanistan said 100 suicide bombers were lined up on the side of further violence. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48am PST |
Google Offers Transfer Tool for Computers (AP) |
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Summary: AP - Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days. |
