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Yahoo News |
12:24pm PST |
Existing home sales declines
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Summary: AP - Sales of existing homes fell for the sixth straight month in January, dropping to the slowest sales pace on record. Median home prices were also down and many analysts predicted further price declines in the months ahead given high levels of unsold h |
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Yahoo News |
12:20pm PST |
Tennessee storms atop AP basketball poll
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Summary: AP - Tennessee surged to the top of The Associated Press college basketball poll for the first time Monday on the strength of its victory over Memphis in a Nos. 1-vs.-2 matchup. |
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Yahoo News |
12:15pm PST |
US violin diplomacy in North Korea
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Summary: AP - Swirling dancers and musicians beating traditional drums welcomed the New York Philharmonic to North Korea Monday for a historic cultural exchange between countries that have been technically at war for more than a half-century. |
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Yahoo News |
12:11pm PST |
Kosovo cops fire tear gas to end protest
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Summary: AP - Police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of Serbs hurling rocks during a protest against Kosovo's independence at a border crossing near the capital Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
12:08pm PST |
Airliner co-pilot dies in mid-flight |
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BBC News |
12:06pm PST |
Jersey inquiry focuses on cellar |
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Summary: Police searching a former Jersey care home where a child's remains were found focus on a bricked-up cellar. |
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BBC News |
12:01pm PST |
Football: Eduardo out for months |
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Summary: Arsenal hope Croatian striker Eduardo will make a full recovery from his horrific leg break in nine months. |
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Yahoo News |
11:58am PST |
Post-surge troops levels: 140,000
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Summary: AP - The Pentagon is projecting that when the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq ends in July there will be about 8,000 more troops on the ground than when it began in January 2007, a senior general said Monday. |
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ChristianPost |
11:45am PST |
Thousands Remember Slain Reno Student |
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Summary: Some 3,000 people braved a snow storm Saturday to remember Brianna Denison, a 19-year-old college student who is believed to have been killed by a serial ... |
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BBC News |
11:37am PST |
Robed Obama picture ignites row |
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Summary: US rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama trade accusations over a photo of Mr Obama in African dress. |
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Cnn.com |
11:37am PST |
House to grill beef company CEOs |
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Summary: Lawmakers and food company CEOs come face-to-face Tuesday in a special hearing to address food safety lapses following this month's largest beef recall in U.S. history.
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Cnn.com |
11:32am PST |
Pilot dies in mid-flight |
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Cnn.com |
11:22am PST |
Nader defends White House run |
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Summary: Ralph Nader lashed out at the Democratic presidential candidates Monday after they said he could hurt their chances of taking back the White House.
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Cnn.com |
11:15am PST |
Second quake in 10 hours hits Indonesia |
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Summary: A powerful earthquake hit off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey's Web site reported.
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Yahoo News |
11:14am PST |
Vietnamese appeal "agent orange" suit in New York
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Summary: Reuters - Several major U.S. chemical companies
are directly accountable for supplying the U.S. military with
"agent orange" during the Vietnam War and causing widespread
dioxin poisoning, a lawyer for Vietnamese plaintiffs told a
federal appeals cour |
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Yahoo News |
11:11am PST |
Clinton accuses Obama of inexperience abroad
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential hopeful
Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to
lead U.S. foreign policy even as Obama gained ground on her in
the battleground U.S. state of Ohio on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08am PST |
U.S. expects 140,000 troops in Iraq after surge
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Summary: Reuters - The United States expects to have
140,000 troops in Iraq in July after withdrawing five combat
brigades, leaving a force larger than before it began pouring
in troops last year, the Pentagon said on Monday. |
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ChristianPost |
11:05am PST |
Survey: US Religious Landscape in Flux |
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Summary: The U.S. religious marketplace is extremely volatile, with nearly half of American adults leaving the faith tradition of their upbringing to either switch allegiances or abandon religious affiliation altogether, a new survey ... |
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BBC News |
10:59am PST |
Trial told of masked gun attack |
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Summary: A garage owner describes how two masked men walked into his premises and shot his nephew dead. |
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10:46am PST |
Airline disputes cousin's story of death
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Summary: AP - American Airlines on Monday insisted it tried to help a passenger who died after complaining she couldn't breathe, and disputed the account of a relative who said that she was denied oxygen and that medical devices failed. |
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Yahoo News |
10:22am PST |
Tennessee tops AP men's basketball poll
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Summary: AP - Tennessee surged to the top of The Associated Press college basketball poll for the first time Monday on the strength of its victory over Memphis in a Nos. 1-vs.-2 matchup. |
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Cnn.com |
10:14am PST |
Airline insists it tried to help dying passenger |
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Theophiles |
10:12am PST |
Larry Norman Dies At Age 60 |
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Summary: Transworld News Reports:
Larry Norman, the father of Christian rock music, passed away early Sunday morning in his Corpus Christi, TX home. He was 60 years old.
Norman wrote a farewell letter, telling his close friends, family and fans that he loved the |
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Theophiles |
10:12am PST |
Fathers and Sons |
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Summary: From Christianity Today:
The problem is not so much that Frank [Schaeffer] exposes and trumpets his parents' flaws and frailties, or that he skewers them with his characteristic mockery. It is more than that. For all his softening, the portrait he paints |
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Yahoo News |
10:06am PST |
Democrats focus on war costs to defeat McCain
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic grass roots organizations
on Monday launched a $20 million campaign to defeat Republican
John McCain in the 2008 U.S. presidential election by focusing
their attention on rising costs of the Iraq war. |
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BBC News |
10:05am PST |
Cyprus leaders seek fresh talks |
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Summary: The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders are optimistic that they can make progress towards reunification. |
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9:52am PST |
Accused 'cheery' before murders |
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Summary: A man accused of murdering a mother and two children was "his usual cheery self" before the killing, a court hears. |
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Cnn.com |
9:48am PST |
Survey: Americans switching religions |
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Cnn.com |
9:48am PST |
Survey: Americans switching faiths |
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Yahoo News |
9:47am PST |
Oscars are a TV ratings dud
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Summary: AP - The Oscars are a ratings dud. Nielsen Media Research says preliminary ratings for the 80th annual Academy Awards telecast are 14 percent lower than the least-watched ceremony ever. |
