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ChristianPost |
3:15pm PST |
He Has Spoken |
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Summary: It is one of the great stories of the Christian Church. In Scillium, North Africa—A.D. 180—a runner brought the message that soldiers were on their way. A Christian silversmith named Speratus, about to be arrested, had a decision to make: Should he take t |
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BBC News |
3:12pm PST |
Russia criticises Iran's defiance |
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Summary: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attacks Iran for its stance on its nuclear and rocket ambitions. |
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Yahoo News |
3:10pm PST |
Stackhouse: Kidd to be traded to Mavs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jason Kidd appears headed back to where his career began, rejoining the Dallas Mavericks in the latest Western Conference megatrade. |
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BBC News |
3:06pm PST |
US hails Hezbollah leader's death |
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Summary: The US welcomes the killing of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, implicated in numerous bomb attacks. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00pm PST |
House defeats stopgap extension of spy program
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - In a victory for President George W.
Bush, the House of Representatives on Wednesday defeated a
Democratic bid to temporarily extend an expiring spy law
instead of replacing it with a new measure that also would
immunize telephone companies |
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Yahoo News |
2:56pm PST |
Graham in fair condition after surgery
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Evangelist Billy Graham is in fair condition at a North Carolina hospital after a successful surgery. Doctors say the 89-year-old Graham was talking immediately after the surgery Wednesday at Mission Hospitals near his home in Montreat. |
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Cnn.com |
2:52pm PST |
Quadriplegic-dumping cops suspended |
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BBC News |
2:32pm PST |
China suffers first defeat at WTO |
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Summary: China has its first defeat at the World Trade Organization in a case centred on its limits on foreign-made car parts. |
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ChristianPost |
2:20pm PST |
College President Resigns After Controversial Tenure |
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Summary: The president of the College of William & Mary resigned Tuesday after a controversial tenure that included the removal of a cross from the nation's oldest college chapel and a green light for a sex workers' "art show" on ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:18pm PST |
Bats could fly before they had 'radar'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying. |
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Yahoo News |
2:18pm PST |
Boston man receives postcard from 1929
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The message on the postcard to a "Miss Margaret McDonald" was short. Its path to the intended address was much longer. Nearly 79 years after it was sent, a postcard of Yellowstone National Park's Tower Falls arrived in a Boston mailbox recently with |
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Yahoo News |
2:15pm PST |
Winkler testifies in John Ritter lawsuit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Actor Henry Winkler has described for a Los Angeles court what happened the last time he saw deceased actor John Ritter. The former "Happy Days" star took the stand Wednesday to testify in a lawsuit against two doctors. Ritter's family is suing a rad |
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Yahoo News |
2:12pm PST |
Tax rebate checks in the mail by spring
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The checks aren't in the mail, but they will be soon. President Bush signed legislation Wednesday to rush rebates ranging from $300 to $1,200 to millions of people, the centerpiece of government efforts to brace the wobbly economy. First, though, you |
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BBC News |
2:12pm PST |
India facing smoking death crisis |
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Summary: One million people a year will die from tobacco smoking in India in the 2010s, research predicts. |
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Cnn.com |
2:04pm PST |
GM recalls 181,000 Chevy HHRs |
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Summary: General Motors said it will recall 181,516 Chevrolet HHR wagons Wednesday after finding that some of the vehicles don't meet government standards for protecting occupants from head injury in a crash.
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Yahoo News |
2:02pm PST |
Senate votes to ban waterboarding
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Senate has joined the House in voting to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods. |
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Yahoo News |
2:01pm PST |
Man slashes NYC psychologist to death
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man hacked a psychologist to death with a meat cleaver at her Upper East Side office and seriously injured another therapist who tried to help her, police said. The search was on Wednesday for the man as police tried to determine whether he was a p |
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Cnn.com |
1:56pm PST |
Death of a terror king |
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Summary: A Hezbollah commander suspected in some of the deadliest terrorist attacks of the last 25 years -- in fact, a reputed role model for Osama bin Laden -- has been killed in Syria, Hezbollah TV said today. But, just as in life, the explosion death of Imad Mu |
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Yahoo News |
1:53pm PST |
Top Hezbollah militant killed in Syria
(AP)
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Summary: AP - One of the world's most wanted and elusive terrorists, Imad Mughniyeh, was killed in a car bombing in Syria nearly 15 years after dropping from sight. The one-time Hezbollah security chief was the suspected mastermind of attacks that killed hundreds |
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Yahoo News |
1:48pm PST |
Clemens and ex-trainer clash at steroids hearing
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Baseball pitching great Roger
Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee, clashed under
oath at a U.S. congressional hearing Wednesday over McNamee's
claims he injected Clemens with illegal performance-enhancing
drugs. |
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BBC News |
1:47pm PST |
Mini-ramps to help bridge traffic |
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Summary: Plans for "mini-bridges" to slash the impact of major roadworks on the Forth Road Bridge are unveiled. |
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Yahoo News |
1:47pm PST |
IRS: File your tax return or no stimulus check
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Americans eligible for tax rebates
of $300 to $1,200 under the new fiscal stimulus act will not
receive their payments until they file a 2007 income tax
return, even if they make too little to owe any taxes, the
Internal Revenue Service said |
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Yahoo News |
1:43pm PST |
U.S. wins auto parts case against China: official
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States has won a
preliminary ruling in a World Trade Organization case over
Chinese tax policies that restrict imports of foreign auto
parts, a U.S. trade official said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
1:43pm PST |
Obama takes on rivals over economic woes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Buoyed by a string of
eight consecutive victories, Democratic presidential contender
Barack Obama bashed rival Hillary Clinton over the ailing U.S.
economy on Wednesday and also took aim at Republican
front-runner John McCain. |
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Yahoo News |
1:22pm PST |
Obama proposes $210 billion for new jobs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama said Wednesday that as president he would spend $210 billion to create jobs in construction and environmental industries, as he tried to win over economically struggling voters. |
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ChristianPost |
1:12pm PST |
Newspapers Reprint Mohammed Cartoon |
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Summary: Danish newspapers reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Muslim prophet Mohammed Wednesday in defiance of Islamic extremism and to defend freedom of ... |
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BBC News |
12:59pm PST |
Football: Everton win in Norway |
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Summary: Everton close in on a place in the last 16 of the Uefa Cup with victory against SK Brann in Norway. |
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BBC News |
12:58pm PST |
Football: Asia slams Prem plan |
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Summary: Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam says he is strongly opposed to the Premier League playing games abroad. |
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Yahoo News |
12:49pm PST |
Rebate checks in the mail by spring
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The checks aren't in the mail, but they will be soon. |
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Yahoo News |
12:40pm PST |
Yahoo exploring alliance with News Corp.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible partnership with News Corp. in its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp. or prod its unsolicited suitor into raising its current takeover bid, according to a person familiar with the talks. |
