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Cnn.com |
9:28am PST |
Clemens: Andy Pettitte 'misheard' steroid talk |
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Summary: Roger Clemens, pro baseball's embattled ace pitcher, told a House panel today that his "close friend" Andy Pettitte "misheard" a conversation in which Pettitte claims Clemens admitted using performance-enhancing substances. A clearly miffed Clemens opened |
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BBC News |
9:28am PST |
Police study Georgia mogul death |
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Summary: UK police are examining the sudden death of Georgian opposition leader and tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili. |
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BBC News |
9:18am PST |
Zimbabwe 'a nation full of fear' |
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Summary: Zimbabwe is described as a sad nation full of fear by an ex-minister as he launches his manifesto for president. |
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BBC News |
9:01am PST |
Abducted Iraqi interpreter 'free' |
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Summary: One of the two CBS staff kidnapped in the Iraqi city of Basra on Sunday has reportedly been released. |
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Cnn.com |
9:00am PST |
Seniors: You gotta file to get rebate |
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Summary: The decision to add 20 million seniors to the ranks of Americans who'll get rebates as part of the economic stimulus plan was in the end an easy one to make.
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Cnn.com |
8:55am PST |
Movie shows Putin as loving husband, father |
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Yahoo News |
8:52am PST |
Top Hezbollah commander killed in Syria blast
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Imad Mughnieh, a top Hezbollah commander linked to notorious attacks against Western and Israeli targets in the 1980s and 1990s, was killed in a car bombing in Syria, the Shiite militant group announced on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:50am PST |
Bill bars Web traffic discrimination
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Summary: AP - A Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet. |
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Yahoo News |
8:44am PST |
CBS announces return dates for 14 shows
(AP)
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Summary: AP - CBS has set return dates for 14 prime-time series, including "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men." |
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Cnn.com |
8:29am PST |
Clemens: Steroid lies devastated my family |
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Summary: Roger Clemens, pro baseball's embattled ace pitcher, is facing his accusers today at a congressional hearing on performance-enhancing drug use. In his prepared remarks, Clemens repeated earlier denials that he used steroids. Clemens also said lies about h |
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Yahoo News |
8:29am PST |
Bill Clinton campaign chief backs Obama
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The man who served as national manager of former President Clinton's 1992 campaign plans to endorse Sen. Barack Obama, an aide to Obama said Wednesday. |
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CTI News |
8:27am PST |
Jordanian Prince Hassan on Arab Christians |
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Summary: One Jordanian leader shares his deep desire to preserve the Arab Christian world.
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Theophiles |
8:27am PST |
Pilgrim politician |
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Summary: From Word Magazine:
In a campaign year when reporters often ask candidates for yes-or-no answers concerning their religious beliefs, there is something to learn from Abraham Lincoln's long and winding road to God. Apart from the spin—proclamations that |
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Yahoo News |
8:24am PST |
Clemens denies he ever used steroids
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Pitching great Roger Clemens and his
former trainer, Brian McNamee, clashed under oath at a U.S.
congressional hearing on Wednesday over McNamee's claims he
injected Clemens with illegal performance-enhancing drugs. |
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BBC News |
8:20am PST |
Attack after Kyle show 'tragedy' |
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Summary: A man pointed an air rifle at his wife after learning on ITV's The Jeremy Kyle Show he was not the father of her baby. |
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BBC News |
8:18am PST |
Iraqi medic held over blasts |
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Summary: A Baghdad hospital official is being questioned over the alleged use of mental patients in bomb attacks, the US says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PST |
British police probe 'suspicious' death of Georgian tycoon
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - British police launched a major investigation Wednesday into the "suspicious" death of a wealthy Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet republic. |
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BBC News |
8:06am PST |
Drugs raids 'hugely successful' |
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Summary: The man in charge of a series of raids says they delivered a "huge blow" against the illegal drugs industry. |
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Cnn.com |
8:03am PST |
Defense secretary slips on ice, breaks shoulder |
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Summary: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suffered a fractured shoulder after slipping on ice Tuesday night at his Washington home, the Pentagon said.
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BBC News |
8:02am PST |
Police 'dumped paralysed man' |
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Summary: Four Florida police officers are suspended after tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair to search him. |
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ChristianPost |
7:55am PST |
Screenwriter Sues Over 'Passion' Script |
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Summary: A screenwriter has sued Mel Gibson and his production company, claiming he was misled by the actor-director into accepting a small payment for writing "The Passion of the Christ," and was refused extra money when the film became a ... |
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BBC News |
7:53am PST |
Chambers set to face track snub |
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Summary: Dwain Chambers may find it hard to make money from athletics after a leading promoter says the sprinter will not be welcome at Europe's top events. |
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BBC News |
7:40am PST |
Astronauts out on ISS spacewalk |
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Summary: US and European astronauts are preparing for their second spacewalk of the current shuttle mission. |
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Cnn.com |
7:37am PST |
Does anyone care about the Oscars? |
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Summary: Many questions came to mind when the Oscar nominations were announced: Who's going to win best picture? Why wasn't "Once" nominated more than once?
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Yahoo News |
7:35am PST |
China says play fair over Beijing/Darfur link
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - China urged activists linking its
stance over Sudan to the Beijing Olympics to play fair and
rebel groups in Darfur praised the decision by film director
Steven Spielberg to quit as an artistic adviser to the Games. |
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Cnn.com |
7:30am PST |
Cyberthieves go phishing to rob banks |
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Summary: Notorious 20th-century bank robber Willie Sutton said famously, "I rob banks because that's where the money is."
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Yahoo News |
7:10am PST |
Retail sales rebound in Jan. after slump
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Shoppers put aside worries about the slumping economy to go to the malls and auto dealerships in January. That propelled retail sales to a surprising rebound following a dismal December. |
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Yahoo News |
7:08am PST |
Senior Hezbollah militant killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Imad Mughniyeh, the suspected mastermind of dramatic attacks on the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks that killed hundreds of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, has died in a car bomb in Syria, Iranian state media and a Syrian rights group said W |
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Cnn.com |
7:04am PST |
Clemens faces accusers over steroid allegations |
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Summary: Roger Clemens, pro baseball's embattled ace pitcher, is facing his accusers today before a congressional panel examining performance-enhancing drug use. Brian McNamee, the former trainer who says he injected Clemens with performance enhancers, also is set |
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BBC News |
7:03am PST |
Tania 'seen' after meeting Wright |
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Summary: Two women saw Tania Nicol after she is alleged to have met a man accused of killing her and four others, a court hears. |
