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Yahoo News |
1:40pm PST |
Clinton, Obama already targeting March 4
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is counting on the almost-Super Tuesday primaries March 4 for another comeback, as she and rival Sen. Barack Obama both begin ads in Texas and Ohio, the day's biggest prizes. |
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BBC News |
1:39pm PST |
Man shot dead in County Donegal |
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Summary: Police in County Donegal are investigating a fatal shooting after a man's body was found close to a church. |
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Yahoo News |
1:38pm PST |
Iraqi threatens to disband parliament
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Summary: AP - The speaker of Iraq's fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections. |
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Yahoo News |
1:34pm PST |
US compares 9/11 trials to Nuremberg
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II |
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1:30pm PST |
Fraud crackdown comes with a loophole
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Bush administration plan to crack down on contract fraud has a multibillion-dollar loophole: The proposal to force companies to report abuse of taxpayer money will not apply to work overseas, including projects to secure and rebuild Iraq and Afghan |
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Yahoo News |
1:18pm PST |
Bush calls nooses and lynch threats deeply offensive
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
condemned as "deeply offensive" on Tuesday a spate of incidents
involving the display of hangman's nooses, a potent symbol of
racist lynchings and hatred of blacks in the United States. |
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1:16pm PST |
Jury deliberates in ex-officer's trial
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the trial of a former police officer accused of killing his pregnant lover, wrapping her body in a comforter and then dumping it in a park. |
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Yahoo News |
1:12pm PST |
Clinton, Obama face off in 3 contests
(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. |
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Yahoo News |
1:10pm PST |
Busch, Stewart handed 6-race probation
(AP)
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Summary: AP - NASCAR placed drivers Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart on probation for six races Tuesday, beginning with the Daytona 500. |
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12:26pm PST |
Harris among Country Hall inductees
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Country Music Hall of Fame has four new members: Emmylou Harris, Tom T. Hall, the Statler Brothers and the late Ernest "Pop" Stoneman. |
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Yahoo News |
12:26pm PST |
GM offers workers buyouts as posts loss
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - General Motors Corp said on
Tuesday it would offer a new round of buyouts to all of its
U.S. factory workers as it posted a quarterly loss that
underscored the pressure the top U.S. automaker faces in its
slumping home market. |
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12:22pm PST |
Miliband urges push for democracy |
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Summary: Mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq must not overcome the "moral pulse" to encourage democracy, says minister. |
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12:17pm PST |
£1.65m drugs haul found on beach |
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Summary: Detectives investigate whether 30 kilos of cocaine washed up on a Welsh beach is linked to similar finds in England. |
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Yahoo News |
12:15pm PST |
U.S. military weighing if Russia in Cold War pose
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Washington is trying to gauge
whether Russia's recent bomber mission near a U.S. aircraft
carrier indicated Moscow's return to a Cold War "mind-set" and
is considering how the Pentagon should respond, a senior U.S.
military officer said on T |
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12:11pm PST |
Yahoo acquires video service for $160M
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Undeterred by the threat of hostile takeover, slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven Networks Inc. for $160 million. |
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BBC News |
12:11pm PST |
Athletics: Anger at Chambers call |
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Summary: Dwain Chambers should not be allowed to represent Great Britain, says double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes. |
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12:11pm PST |
Holmes angry at Chambers GB call |
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Summary: Dwain Chambers should not be allowed to represent Great Britain, says double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes. |
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Yahoo News |
12:04pm PST |
Hope for U.S. hostages in Colombia after 5 years
(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 anniversary she will have to spend waiting for news he has
finally been freed by his rebel captors. |
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12:01pm PST |
Fla. School Board Set to Vote on New Standards for Teaching Evolution |
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BBC News |
11:58am PST |
Arab TV stations to face curbs |
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Summary: Arab ministers meeting in Cairo agree to allow "offensive" satellite TV channels to face punishment. |
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Cnn.com |
11:55am PST |
Australia to apologize 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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11:41am PST |
Iran Proposes Death Penalty for Apostasy |
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ChristianToday |
11:35am PST |
Archbishop of Canterbury slams casinos in Synod debate |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury has hit out at Government plans to build large casinos across the country branding them human pollution during a debate on gambling at the Church of England General Synod on Tuesday |
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BBC News |
11:26am PST |
US banks join mortgage help plan |
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Summary: Six of the biggest US banks sign up to a scheme to offer more help to homeowners struggling with mortgages. |
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11:26am PST |
Car plunges over Cornish cliffs |
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Summary: A couple are airlifted to hospital after their car plunges 75ft over cliffs on the Cornish coast. |
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Yahoo News |
11:24am PST |
Russia, Ukraine resolve gas dispute
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Summary: AFP - Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday reached a deal to resolve a row over gas debt in which energy giant Gazprom had threatened to cut supplies to Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:22am PST |
Banks to pause delinquent mortgage foreclosures
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Six top mortgage companies on
Tuesday launched a new program aimed at staving off foreclosure
for seriously delinquent borrowers in the hopes that new, more
affordable loan terms can be worked out. |
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Yahoo News |
11:21am PST |
Japan PM says Okinawa rape case "unforgivable"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Japan's prime minister Tuesday denounced
the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on
the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a
1995 case that jolted the U.S.-Japan alliance. |
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Yahoo News |
11:09am PST |
Clinton, Obama face off in Va., Md., DC
(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. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31am PST |
U.S. military assessing if Russia in Cold War pose
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Washington is trying to gauge
whether Russia's recent bomber mission near a U.S. aircraft
carrier indicated Moscow's return to a Cold War "mind-set" and
is considering how the Pentagon should respond, a senior U.S.
military officer said on T |
