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Cnn.com |
4:07pm PST |
Obama wins Virginia, CNN projects; McCain, Huckabee close |
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Summary: Barack Obama continued his winning ways from the weekend today, defeating Hillary Clinton in the Virginia Democratic primary, CNN projected. On the Republican side, Mike Huckabee was in a competitive race against front-runner John McCain.
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BBC News |
4:00pm PST |
Surveyors' gloom at house prices |
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Summary: The proportion of UK surveyors reporting falling house prices grows for a six consecutive month. |
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BBC News |
3:59pm PST |
Turnout high in US primaries |
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Summary: Turnout is said to be high in three more US primaries, with Barack Obama seeking to win Democratic races. |
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Yahoo News |
3:45pm PST |
Australia says 'sorry' to Aborigines
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an historic apology to the Aboriginal people on Wednesday for injustices committed over two centuries of white settlement. |
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Yahoo News |
3:44pm PST |
Obama seeks wins to erode Clinton's lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic rivals Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton squared off Tuesday in primaries in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, home to the White House, their long-sought prize. With 168 delegates at stake, Obama hoped to erode i |
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Yahoo News |
3:40pm PST |
Senate OKs new rules on eavesdropping
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Senate on Tuesday approved new rules for government eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails, giving the White House much of the latitude it wanted and granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that helped in the snooping after the |
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Yahoo News |
3:36pm PST |
Canseco's affidavit backs Clemens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former major leaguer Jose Canseco has told Congress in a sworn affidavit that he has never seen Roger Clemens "use, possess or ask for steroids or human growth hormone." |
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BBC News |
3:21pm PST |
Treasury 'climb-down' on non-doms |
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Summary: The Treasury is accused of climbing down over plans to tax wealthy foreigners, after it moved to clarify its position. |
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Yahoo News |
3:19pm PST |
Pause means U.S. Iraq force likely larger for longer
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - When the next U.S. president is
chosen, America may have about as many troops in Iraq as it did
two years earlier, when voters tired of the war handed
President George W. Bush's Republicans an election defeat. |
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Cnn.com |
3:00pm PST |
Australia apologizes for Aborigine 'pain' |
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Summary: The Australian government said Tuesday that it will apologize for years of "mistreatment" that have inflicted "profound grief, suffering and loss" on the country's Aboriginal people.
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Yahoo News |
2:52pm PST |
Senate approves spy bill and phone immunity
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Telephone companies that took part
in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying
program would receive retroactive immunity from lawsuits under
a bill approved on Tuesday by the Democratic-led Senate. |
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Yahoo News |
2:47pm PST |
U.S. families hopeful of Colombia hostages release
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Five years after her son was snatched by
Colombian guerrillas, Lynne Stansell hopes this could be the
last frustrating anniversary she will have to spend waiting for
news he has been freed by his rebel captors. |
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BBC News |
2:45pm PST |
Spielberg boycotts Olympic role |
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Summary: US filmmaker Steven Spielberg withdraws as an artistic adviser to the Olympics over China's role in Darfur. |
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Yahoo News |
2:38pm PST |
Bush: Noose displays 'deeply offensive'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that blacks have endured across the nation. |
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Yahoo News |
2:32pm PST |
Woman, 89, uses ax to break into home
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An 89-year-old woman used an ax to break into her own home after she locked herself out on a patio hemmed in by deep snow. "I had to bang the glass four times with the ax before it broke," said Geraldine "Gerry" Palmer, who turns 90 this weekend. |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PST |
Australia apologises to Aborigines for past injustices
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered an historic apology in parliament Wednesday to the Aboriginal people for injustices committed over two centuries of white settlement. |
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Yahoo News |
2:21pm PST |
Shakira charity auction raises $76,000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ever paid $3,000 for a bra? That's what one fan forked over for one of Shakira's bras. Another admirer shelled out $14,000 for the privilege of meeting the pop sensation and receiving front-row seats at a future show in Toronto. |
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ChristianPost |
2:21pm PST |
Baptist College Opens Door to Non-Baptist Christian Groups |
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Summary: Non-Baptist Christian student groups are allowed to officially meet on the campus of Baylor University, the school board recently ... |
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ChristianPost |
2:21pm PST |
Bapist College Opens Door to Non-Baptist Christian Groups |
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Summary: Non-Baptist Christian student groups are allowed to officially meet on the campus of Baylor University, the school board recently ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:18pm PST |
New dinosaur species found in Mexico
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Mexican paleontologist was cleaning up after lunch with a group of schoolchildren she'd been teaching to dig for bones in northeastern Mexico when she found the dinosaur bone. "I was basically collecting trash," Martha Carolina Aguillon Martinez re |
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BBC News |
2:15pm PST |
Australia apologises to Aborigines |
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Summary: Australia's government presents a formal apology for past wrongs inflicted on the Aboriginal community. |
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Yahoo News |
2:07pm PST |
U.S. aims to give wake-up alerts on storms
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - In the not-too-distant future, the U.S.
government would like to be able to wake up residents in the
middle of the night when a hurricane or tornado threatens,
perhaps by sounding the alarm on a cellphone. |
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Cnn.com |
2:05pm PST |
Gunman in Smart case denied release |
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Yahoo News |
2:03pm PST |
Executions may be carried out at Gitmo
(AP)
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Summary: AP - If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts s |
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BBC News |
2:00pm PST |
Teenage boy dies in stab attack |
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Summary: A murder investigation is under way after a 17-year-old boy suffered fatal stab wounds in Hull. |
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Yahoo News |
1:48pm PST |
Obama rides winning streak into contests
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama hoped to
extend his winning streak over Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in a
tight Democratic presidential race as voters made their choices
in three battlegrounds around the U.S. capital. |
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Cnn.com |
1:47pm PST |
Polling places stay busy for 'Potomac primaries' |
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Summary: Business was brisk today at polling places in Virginia and Maryland, where primaries could answer key questions in the Democratic and Republican nomination races. District of Columbia voters are also participating in the so-called "Potomac primaries," nam |
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BBC News |
1:46pm PST |
Football: Watford stay on top |
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Summary: Darius Henderson scores on the brink of half-time to keep 10-man Watford top of the Championship table. |
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BBC News |
1:43pm PST |
Virgin 'is Rock bid frontrunner' |
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Summary: Virgin is told it is in the lead to rescue Northern Rock - but nationalisation of the troubled bank is currently preferable. |
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BBC News |
1:43pm PST |
Virgin 'is Rock plan frontrunner' |
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Summary: Virgin is told it is in the lead to rescue Northern Rock - but nationalisation of the troubled bank is currently preferable. |
