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Yahoo News |
10:15pm PST |
Feds to Query Labels About Online Prices
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Summary: AP - The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday it has launched an inquiry into possible price fixing in the burgeoning online music industry. |
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Cnn.com |
9:22pm PST |
Ex-FEMA chief: Chertoff should be fired |
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Summary: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff should be fired for his handling of Hurricane Katrina, former federal emergency management chief Michael Brown said Thursday, accusing Chertoff of lacking disaster management knowledge. |
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Cnn.com |
8:19pm PST |
How a 9/11 conspirator gave himself away |
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Summary: He spoke fluent Arabic but rusty English. He had plenty of cash, but didn't seem like the playboy type. He said he wanted to learn to fly a jumbo jet simply to impress his pals. |
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Cnn.com |
8:09pm PST |
Former pop star jailed for child abuse |
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Cnn.com |
6:35pm PST |
Abortion tops menu of bans in pizza magnate's new town |
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Yahoo News |
6:29pm PST |
New Video Shows Blanco Saying Levees Safe
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Summary: AP - In the hectic, confused hours after Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast, Louisiana's governor hesitantly but mistakenly assured the Bush administration that New Orleans' protective levees were intact, according to new video obtained by |
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Theophiles |
6:27pm PST |
Italian Panel: Soviets Behind Pope Attack |
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An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John Paul II - a theory long alleged but never proved, according to a draft report made available Thur |
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Theophiles |
6:27pm PST |
A Church-State Schism in Spain |
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Summary: "Shortly after his election in 2004, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ended a quarter-century of cozy church-state relations by blocking mandatory religious classes in public schools. He then took wider aim, saying his government woul |
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Cnn.com |
6:25pm PST |
India seals high-tech U.S. arms deal |
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Summary: India will be allowed to buy more sophisticated fighter aircraft and other high-tech arms from the United States as part of a closer defense relationship between the two nations, the U.S. says. The deal will be viewed with interest by India's regional riv |
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Yahoo News |
6:19pm PST |
Senate Approves Patriot Act Renewal
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Summary: AP - The Senate on Thursday gave its blessing to the renewal of the USA Patriot Act after adding new privacy protections designed to strike a better balance between civil liberties and the government's power to root out terrorists. |
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Yahoo News |
6:18pm PST |
Bush Ushers India Into Nuclear Club
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Summary: AP - Reversing decades of U.S. policy, President Bush ushered India into the world's exclusive nuclear club Thursday with a landmark agreement to share nuclear reactors, fuel and expertise with this energy-starved nation in return for its acceptance |
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PST |
N.J. 'Killer Nurse' Gets 11 Life Terms
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A nurse who killed at least 29 patients was sent to prison for the rest of his life Thursday after his victims' loved ones angrily branded him "vermin," "garbage" and a "monster" who ruined lives and shattered their |
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Yahoo News |
6:05pm PST |
Republican Will Try to Squash Ports Deal
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Summary: AP - One of the most prominent House Republicans on military issues said Thursday he would try to scuttle a Dubai-based company's effort to manage U.S. ports as lawmakers' complaints about the Bush administration's handling of the issue con |
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Yahoo News |
6:05pm PST |
NFL Extends Free Agency Deadline
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Summary: AP - The NFL delayed the start of the free-agent signing period by three days Thursday, seven hours after the owners had seemed to end all hope for a labor contract extension. |
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Yahoo News |
6:04pm PST |
Stroke Victims May Regain Weak Arm Use
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Summary: AP - As long as five years after suffering a stroke, people were able to regain use of a weak arm when their strong arm was restrained during two weeks of intensive therapy, new research shows. |
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Yahoo News |
6:03pm PST |
Iran president says IAEA politically motivated
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Summary: Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said on Friday the U.N. nuclear watchdog's
treatment of his country was politically motivated. |
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Yahoo News |
6:03pm PST |
Wendy's to Seek Options for Baja Fresh
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Summary: AP - Bowing to investor wishes, Wendy's International Inc. on Thursday said it would consider options for its Baja Fresh Mexican food chain and accelerate the separation of its coffee-and-doughnut brand in a bid to counter slumping sales. |
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Yahoo News |
6:02pm PST |
Kid Rock: Stapp 'Idiot' for Losing Tape
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Summary: AP - Kid Rock blames Scott Stapp for losing a sex video showing them with several strippers, but appreciates Stapp for one thing. "What perfect timing," Rock told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "I got a record coming up ... |
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Cnn.com |
5:55pm PST |
Snow shortage shoves Alaska's famous race north |
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Yahoo News |
5:15pm PST |
Dubai flap threatens other investment in US
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Summary: Reuters - The political firestorm over Arab
management of six U.S. ports threatened to widen on Thursday
after a senior House Republican said he wanted foreign firms to
sell their investments in American ports, electricity plants
and other infrastruct |
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BBC News |
5:14pm PST |
Moscow offers Hamas talks chance |
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Summary: Russia breaks ranks with the other members of the Middle East Quartet by holding talks with Hamas. |
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BBC News |
4:54pm PST |
Licence 'must not fund TV switch' |
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Summary: The government is criticised for asking licence fee payers to help fund the switch to digital TV. |
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BBC News |
4:47pm PST |
Haiti parliamentary polls delayed |
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Summary: Haiti's second round of polls are delayed, postponing the inauguration of President-elect Preval. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35pm PST |
Two US Embassy guards killed in Haiti
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Summary: Reuters - Two Haitian men who
worked as security guards for the U.S. Embassy in
Port-au-Prince were shot to death as they went home from work,
the embassy said on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
4:28pm PST |
Parents 'forgive' school weakness |
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Summary: Loyal parents tell inspectors they are satisfied even when schools have weaknesses, Ofsted says. |
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BBC News |
4:26pm PST |
US animal campaigners convicted |
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Summary: A US jury convicts an animal rights group and six of its members of inciting terror against a UK firm involved in animal testing. |
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Cnn.com |
4:26pm PST |
Al Qaeda infiltration feared by Palestinians, Abbas says |
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BBC News |
4:13pm PST |
East Europe dominates book prize |
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Summary: Novels from Hungary, Poland and Croatia feature on the shortlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PST |
Call for more home death support |
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Summary: Experts call for better home care and more support to allow terminally cancer ill patients to die at home. |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PST |
Breast screen treatment concerns |
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Summary: Breast screening could lead to 10% of those checked having unnecessary treatment, a study has suggested. |
