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Yahoo News |
8:04pm PDT |
Pavarotti's condition reportedly worsens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Luciano Pavarotti's health has deteriorated and the tenor was in very serious condition, suffering kidney problems and losing consciousness, a local Italian TV station reported Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:02pm PDT |
Felix toll rises, Henriette hits Mexico
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic Wednesday after powerful Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast. The death toll rose to at least 18 with dozens more missing. |
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Cnn.com |
8:00pm PDT |
Apple slashes iPhone price |
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Summary: Apple announced Wednesday the first major overhaul of its popular iPod music digital players in nearly two years and slashed the price of its new iPhone.
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Yahoo News |
7:56pm PDT |
Federer leads Roddick; Venus wins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Both dressed in black, Roger Federer won the first set of his quarterfinal match 7-6 (5) against Andy Roddick at the U.S. Open Wednesday night. |
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Theophiles |
7:12pm PDT |
Legal Groups Putting God on the Docket |
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Summary: At chigagotribune.com:Whether they like it or loathe it, most Americans recognize the American Civil Liberties Union as a constitutional watchdog. Far fewer know of the American Center for Law and Justice, a leader in the flourishing field of Christian le |
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BBC News |
7:06pm PDT |
Cameron proposes citizen service |
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Summary: The Conservative leader wants 16-year-olds to do a "21st Century equivalent" of national service. |
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Yahoo News |
7:04pm PDT |
Venus Williams reaches U.S. Open semis
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Venus Williams got her Grand Slam groove back just in time. Way down Wednesday night, Williams turned her game on when she needed to, then got some help from a fading foe and beat No. 3-seeded Jelena Jankovic 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) to return to the U.S. O |
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BBC News |
6:41pm PDT |
Nicaragua storm death toll rises |
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Summary: The death toll from Hurricane Felix rises to at least 38, with more than 200 missing, officials in Nicaragua say. |
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Yahoo News |
6:37pm PDT |
GOP hopefuls welcome Thompson to race
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential contenders welcomed former Sen. Fred Thompson to the race Wednesday night with humor and pointed advice that he will have to fight them for the nomination. |
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Cnn.com |
6:34pm PDT |
'Law & Order' star Thompson: I'm running |
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Summary: After spending months testing the waters for a presidential run, Sen. Fred Thompson made his candidacy official Wednesday evening.
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Yahoo News |
6:22pm PDT |
Company recalls beef patties sold in New England
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Fairbank Farms, a U.S. ground beef
producer, said on Wednesday it is voluntarily recalling beef
patties sold to Shaw's Supermarkets in New England because of
concerns about bacterial contamination. |
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Yahoo News |
6:14pm PDT |
Fossett may have faced tricky winds
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett vanished somewhere across a landscape of soaring peaks and sagebrush desert notorious for winds so powerful and tricky they can swirl an airplane like a leaf and even shear off a wing. |
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Yahoo News |
6:09pm PDT |
Ace finds $154M accounting shortfall
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ace Hardware Corp. discovered an approximately $154 million shortfall on its books while preparing to convert from retailer-owned cooperative to for-profit corporation and likely will have to restate its financial results for the last five years, Pre |
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Yahoo News |
5:53pm PDT |
Thompson announces candidacy on Leno
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Fred Thompson — veteran actor, former Republican senator — launched his bid for the presidency Hollywood style. "I'm running for president of the United States," Thompson told Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show" airing We |
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Cnn.com |
5:46pm PDT |
'Law & Order' star enters '08 race |
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Summary: After spending months testing the waters for a presidential run, Sen. Fred Thompson made his candidacy official Wednesday evening.
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BBC News |
5:44pm PDT |
Thompson joins White House race |
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Summary: Hollywood actor and ex-US Senator Fred Thompson declares he will seek the Republican presidential nomination. |
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BBC News |
5:38pm PDT |
Views sought on children's lives |
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Summary: The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives. |
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BBC News |
5:38pm PDT |
Push to improve children's lives |
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Summary: The public is being asked to help the government come up with a 10-year plan to improve children's lives. |
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Yahoo News |
5:24pm PDT |
Walters to add Shepherd to 'The View'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Actress Sherri Shepherd will be introduced next week as a new cast member on "The View," giving the daytime chat show its first full cast since before Rosie O'Donnell came and went. |
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Yahoo News |
5:21pm PDT |
Rep. Thompson enters race for president
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hollywood actor and former senator
Fred Thompson declared his candidacy for U.S. president on
Wednesday, formally entering the 2008 White House race with a
TV interview as his Republican rivals gathered for a debate. |
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BBC News |
5:14pm PDT |
Hospital mobile bans 'must stay' |
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Summary: Evidence that mobile phones can interfere with vital intensive care equipment has been strengthened. |
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BBC News |
4:48pm PDT |
Police to hold road death summit |
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Summary: The increasing number of young people being killed on the roads is to be discussed by police and motoring groups. |
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BBC News |
4:47pm PDT |
Additives 'cause bad behaviour' |
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Summary: Cocktails of food additives in children's diets may be responsible for hyperactive behaviour, say researchers. |
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BBC News |
4:46pm PDT |
Charges over Austria Nazi salutes |
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Summary: Three Austrian conscripts are charged in connection with a video showing young soldiers exchanging Nazi salutes. |
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Yahoo News |
4:38pm PDT |
Petraeus hints at Iraq troop cuts in '08
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The top U.S. military commander in
Iraq, General David Petraeus, has suggested he would recommend
a cut in U.S. troop numbers around March when he delivers
long-awaited testimony to Congress next week. |
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Yahoo News |
4:38pm PDT |
Germany says foiled attacks on U.S. sites
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - German security services foiled a plan
by Islamist militants to carry out "massive bomb attacks"
against U.S. installations in Germany and arrested three
suspects, officials said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:36pm PDT |
U.S. builds for future at Guantanamo
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S.
military is building a mobile courtroom complex on an unused
runway at the Guantanamo Bay naval base and plans to be ready
by March to conduct as many as three terrorism trials at a
time. |
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Yahoo News |
4:35pm PDT |
Bridge inspections show no problems so far
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. states have found no signs so
far that bridges like one that collapsed in Minneapolis last
month have structural problems that would pose a danger to
motorists, the government said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:34pm PDT |
Study: Wrong fish used to save species
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 20-year government effort to restore the population of an endangered native trout in Colorado has made little progress because biologists have been stocking some of the waterways with the wrong fish, a new study says. |
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Yahoo News |
4:20pm PDT |
Davydenko makes 2nd straight Open semi
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nikolay Davydenko is a man with a lot on his mind these days. |
