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BBC News |
11:52pm PDT |
Athletics: Britain in relay finals |
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Summary: Britain's women's 4x100m relay team join the men in reaching Saturday's finals at the World Championships. |
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DJ Chuang |
11:29pm PDT |
talk ethnicity and church this Sunday 9/2 night |
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Summary: I know it’s Labor Day weekend. I’m scrambling for something fun for the family to close out the summer, even tho’ the weather here in the OC won’t actually change at all. Maybe a Saturday Fun Roll or Greek Festival or the Orange In |
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Yahoo News |
11:27pm PDT |
Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas?
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She's been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. |
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Yahoo News |
10:53pm PDT |
Djokovic wins lengthy U.S. Open match
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Through repeated visits from trainers, through all manner of momentum shifts, No. 3-seeded Novak Djokovic and former top-10 player Radek Stepanek produced as entertaining and lengthy a U.S. Open match as there's been in quite some time. |
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BBC News |
10:48pm PDT |
Sydney fence for Apec summit |
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Summary: A steel fence is being built across central Sydney amid a massive security effort for next week's Apec summit. |
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BBC News |
10:48pm PDT |
Sydney fenced in for summit |
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Summary: A steel fence is being built across central Sydney amid a massive security effort for next week's Apec summit. |
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BBC News |
10:47pm PDT |
Insurgents killed in Afghan clash |
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Summary: The US-led coalition says it has killed nearly two dozen insurgents in a clash in the southern Afghanistan. |
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Yahoo News |
10:44pm PDT |
Iraqi civilian deaths rise slightly in August
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Civilian deaths from violence in Iraq
rose slightly in August, with 1,773 people killed, government
statistics showed on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:13pm PDT |
Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in Md.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A lottery official said early Saturday that a winning Mega Millions ticket for Friday's estimated $330 million jackpot was sold at the liquor store in Baltimore County. |
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Yahoo News |
10:03pm PDT |
Venezuela president mediates Colombia hostage crisis
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he had agreed to meet with Colombian leftist guerrillas to discuss the possible freeing of rebel prisoners in return for the release of hostages. |
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BBC News |
9:48pm PDT |
Fears grow over Taser expansion |
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Summary: Amnesty International voices concerns as more police officers start to carry Taser stun guns in a 12-month trial. |
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Yahoo News |
9:40pm PDT |
Britain reflects on Diana's memory
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Britain reflected Saturday on the memorial service marking 10 years since the death of Diana, princess of Wales, and its calls for her to be allowed to rest in peace at last. |
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BBC News |
9:30pm PDT |
UK general criticises US Iraq policy |
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Summary: The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion says US post-war policy was "intellectually bankrupt". |
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Cnn.com |
9:05pm PDT |
U.S., North Korea head into talks |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
8:56pm PDT |
Heat wave increases Calif. fire threat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Utilities urged customers to ease up on electricity use and officials opened cool shelters as California continued to swelter under a heat wave Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:53pm PDT |
TNT to air Thompson on 'Law & Order'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - While Fred Thompson's "Law & Order" character disappears from NBC starting Saturday because of concerns over federal equal time provisions, cable viewers will still have plenty of opportunities to see his District Attorney Arthur Branch. |
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Yahoo News |
8:44pm PDT |
Calif. water limits imposed to save fish
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish. |
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Yahoo News |
8:39pm PDT |
Mega Millions sales hot for $330M prize
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two big numbers: $330 million, nearly 1-in-176 million. You can guess which one people were thinking about as they waited in line for Mega Millions tickets. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
Mich. serial killing suspect identified
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A prison parolee and sex offender was identified as the man suspected of killing five women in the city in a little more than a month, and he could face charges in a sixth death from 2004, authorities said Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:34pm PDT |
GOP: Craig plans to resign from Senate
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men's room, Republican officials said Friday. |
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BBC News |
8:30pm PDT |
Tasers available to more police |
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Summary: More frontline police officers start to carry Taser stun guns in a 12-month trial. |
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Yahoo News |
8:22pm PDT |
Musharraf's allies question deal with Bhutto
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Allies of Pakistan's President Pervez
Musharraf have raised objections to a power-sharing deal he is
negotiating with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, casting
fresh doubt on the future of the embattled president. |
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BBC News |
8:17pm PDT |
US senator to resign amid scandal |
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Summary: A US senator who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct is set to resign from the Senate, officials say. |
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Cnn.com |
7:59pm PDT |
Tropical depression could become hurricane |
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Summary: The sixth tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed Friday, while Tropical Storm Henriette drenched parts of Mexico's Pacific coast, the National Hurricane Center said.
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BBC News |
7:40pm PDT |
New Chinese rules on Dalai Lama |
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Summary: New rules come into force giving China more say over how Tibetan monks select their leader, the Dalai Lama. |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Schwarzenegger snubs Tories |
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Summary: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls out of appearing in person at the Tory Party conference. |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Schwarzenegger disappointment |
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Summary: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls out of appearing in person at the Tory Party conference. |
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BBC News |
7:30pm PDT |
Schwarzenegger disappoints Tories |
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Summary: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls out of appearing in person at the Tory Party conference. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13pm PDT |
U.S. hopes for progress in NKorea talks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The top U.S. nuclear negotiator said Friday that he will use weekend talks with North Korea to resolve issues that could impede progress in broader international talks over its nuclear program. |
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BBC News |
7:12pm PDT |
Man charged with murder at wake |
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Summary: A 24-year-old man is charged with the murder of Tyrone Gilbert, who was shot while attending a wake for his friend. |
