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Cnn.com |
2:36pm PST |
White House hopefuls burn millions on TV |
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Summary: With just days to make last-minute pitches to voters in two dozen states, the presidential candidates are pouring millions into television advertising before Super Tuesday.
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ChristianPost |
2:32pm PST |
Christians and the Environment |
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Summary: In his World Peace Day message, Pope Benedict XVI included caring for the environment as an important part of promoting peace. Nothing controversial about that—environmental degradation has often led to conflict over ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:21pm PST |
Envoy: US troops to be in Iraq into '09
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Summary: AP - President Bush's top diplomat in Iraq said Friday that the U.S. plans to keep combat troops there into 2009, seen as the tipping point for establishing the nation's long-term security, and he offered no deadline for a full withdrawal. |
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BBC News |
2:17pm PST |
Poland 'agrees' to host US shield |
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Summary: Poland has agreed in principal to allow an American missile defence system on Polish territory. |
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Yahoo News |
2:12pm PST |
Obama says he'd be better against McCain
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama sees one of the best arguments for his presidential candidacy in the rise of Republican Sen. John McCain. |
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Yahoo News |
2:12pm PST |
Jury acquits Wesley Snipes of tax fraud
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Summary: AP - Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return. |
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AgapePress |
2:08pm PST |
Bill Clinton wants to 'slow down the economy' |
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Summary:
The head of a free market think tank says although Bill Clinton's campaign trail remark about the need to "slow down the economy" was an "overtly stupid" comment to make amid recession fears, it was a rare moment of candor.
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AgapePress |
2:06pm PST |
Christian attorney pushes for prosecution of hard-core porn |
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Pro-family attorney Pat Trueman says hard-core pornography isn't free speech and should be prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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BBC News |
1:57pm PST |
Delays continue on HMRC website |
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Summary: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says users of its online service are still experiencing delays filing their tax self-assessment. |
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Yahoo News |
1:55pm PST |
Pentagon rejects report, says ready for WMD attack
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Pentagon on Friday insisted it
is ready to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear attack
inside the United States, rejecting an independent panel's
criticism of its preparations. |
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Cnn.com |
1:45pm PST |
1 million Evenflo car seats recalled |
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Summary: About one million child safety seats made by Evenflo are being recalled because they could fail to protect children from vehicle side-impacts.
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Cnn.com |
1:45pm PST |
Snipes acquitted of tax fraud, conspiracy |
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Yahoo News |
1:33pm PST |
Huckabee: Romney shifted on key issues
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Summary: AP - Republican Mike Huckabee on Friday defended his previous remark that Mitt Romney didn't reach "political puberty" until recently, saying he was referring to his presidential rival's change of heart on key issues. |
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Yahoo News |
1:31pm PST |
US strike exposes entrenched militants
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Summary: AP - The U.S. missile strike that killed a top al-Qaida commander just over a mile from a Pakistani military base shows how entrenched Islamic militants are in the lawless tribal regions, where extremists have launched increasingly bold attacks. |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PST |
U.S. backs modernizing Polish air defenses
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Summary: Reuters - The United States supports
modernizing Poland's air defenses, a key Polish demand for
hosting part of a planned missile defense system, U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PST |
6 killed in North Carolina plane crash
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A twin-engine plane crashed Friday as it tried to land amid low fog at a small airport in northwest North Carolina, killing all six people on board, officials said. |
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Cnn.com |
1:14pm PST |
Casinos bet -- on getting your rebate |
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Summary: Kevin Warren, a New York City doorman, knows what he's going to do with his tax rebate check: "I'm going to try to double it."
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Cnn.com |
1:08pm PST |
Aruba reopens Holloway case -- again |
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Cnn.com |
12:54pm PST |
NASA to beam Beatles song to North Star |
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Yahoo News |
12:54pm PST |
Employment drops in a pink slip blizzard
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Summary: AP - In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession. |
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ChristianPost |
12:46pm PST |
American Bishop 'Indignant' at S. African Church Arrest |
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Summary: An American bishop who is closely related to the South African church that was raided by police forces said he was “shocked and indignant” at the actions taken against the some 1,500 refugees taking shelter in the ... |
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ChristDot |
12:42pm PST |
A Better Place |
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Summary: In the Feb 4th (2008) issue of The New Yorker, Joan Acocella reviews David Levering Lewis' new book God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215 (Norton; $29.95):
The Muslims came to Europe, Lewis writes, as “the forward wave of ci |
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Yahoo News |
12:13pm PST |
Britney Spears' parents go to LA court
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Summary: AP - Britney Spears' parents made a surprise appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom Friday, a day after she was whisked to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. |
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AgapePress |
12:09pm PST |
Santorum high on Romney, down on Huckabee |
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Rick Santorum has endorsed Mitt Romney for president, saying the former Massachusetts governor "stands for the values that made America the greatest country in the world." Santorum, a former Republican senator on Capitol Hill, also contends that by remai |
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Yahoo News |
12:05pm PST |
NFL commissioner defends destroying tapes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In the face of congressional pressure over destroying evidence from the Spygate scandal, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell defended his actions Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:02pm PST |
Mentally retarded women used in bombings
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extr |
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Cnn.com |
12:00pm PST |
Town rallies around wrongly convicted man |
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Summary: Since a judge threw out Tim Masters' murder conviction and freed the 36-year-old after almost a decade behind bars, the town of Fort Collins, Colorado, has showered him in letters, gifts and general good will. Though he remains a suspect in the 1987 slayi |
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Yahoo News |
11:57am PST |
Kenya's parties agree to stop violence
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Summary: Reuters - Kenya's feuding parties agreed on
Friday to a framework for talks to resolve a violent political
crisis, in which some 850 people have died, within 15 days,
former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:51am PST |
Mentally impaired female bombers kill 64 in Baghdad markets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Explosives strapped to two mentally impaired women were triggered by remote control in co-ordinated blasts Friday that ripped through two Baghdad pet markets killing 64 people, an official said. |
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ChristianPost |
11:43am PST |
Poll: Most Americans Want a Biblical Leader as President |
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Summary: The majority of Americans want a president who mirrors biblical ideals of leadership, revealed a new poll out ... |
