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Yahoo News |
10:26am PST |
Conservative giant William Buckley dead at 82
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Writer and commentator William F.
Buckley, a witty and patrician intellectual who helped found
the modern conservative movement in U.S. politics, died on
Wednesday. He was 82. |
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BBC News |
10:21am PST |
Olympics 'threat to water supply' |
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Summary: A senior Communist Party official calls for compensation for water diverted to Beijing for the Olympics. |
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BBC News |
10:15am PST |
Diabetic mice 'cured' with drugs |
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Summary: US scientists have effectively managed to rid mice of type 1 diabetes using a cocktail of drugs. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14am PST |
Colombian rebels free 4 hostages: Red Cross
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Colombian rebels on Wednesday released four former lawmakers they were holding hostage, handing them over to Red Cross representatives and Venezuelan government officials, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:09am PST |
Lawmakers seek perjury probe of Clemens
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday
requested a federal probe into whether baseball pitching great
Roger Clemens lied to Congress in denying claims by his former
trainer that he had used performance enhancing drugs. |
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Yahoo News |
10:08am PST |
Congress asks for probe of Clemens
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Roger Clemens "committed perjury and made knowingly false statements" to a House committee. |
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BBC News |
10:07am PST |
Commons roof protest inquiry |
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Summary: Police launch an inquiry into how five airport expansion protesters managed to climb on to Parliament's roof. |
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Yahoo News |
10:05am PST |
Bernanke signals another rate cut
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress that the nation is in for a period of sluggish business growth and sent a fresh signal Wednesday that interest rates will again be lowered to steady the teetering economy. |
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BBC News |
10:03am PST |
Colombian hostages freed by Farc |
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Summary: Four hostages are set free by Colombian Farc rebels, in a deal brokered by the Venezuelan president. |
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DJ Chuang |
10:01am PST |
pastors congregate in San Diego |
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Summary: I over-estimated the attendance here at the National Pastors Convention 2008 in San Diego– it’s closer to 1,800 than 2,000. Got here last night, after taking a detour off of Interstate 5 which was a parking lot, came down on PCH, grabbed a qui |
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Yahoo News |
9:57am PST |
Colombian rebels free four hostages from jungle
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Marxist rebels
freed four lawmakers held hostage for years in Colombia's
jungle on Wednesday, in a victory for Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez who brokered the deal. |
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BBC News |
9:53am PST |
'Costly payout' after earthquake |
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Summary: Insurance claims following the biggest earthquake in the UK for 25 years will run to millions of pounds, experts say. |
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BBC News |
9:50am PST |
BBC in rugby complaint response |
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Summary: Dozens of viewers complain BBC One had too much rugby on Saturday, but the BBC insists coverage was justified. |
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BBC News |
9:43am PST |
Teenage girl killed in bus crash |
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Summary: The girl who was killed following a collision between a bus and a lorry is named locally as Nicola Murray. |
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BBC News |
9:39am PST |
Police dog 'reacts' in Jersey cellar |
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Summary: A sniffer dog has had a "strong reaction" at a former Jersey children's home at the centre of an abuse inquiry, police say. |
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Cnn.com |
9:37am PST |
Author, commentator William F. Buckley Jr. dies |
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Summary: National Review founder and conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr. died overnight in the study of his Stamford, Connecticut home, officials at the magazine said Wednesday. He was 82.
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Yahoo News |
9:35am PST |
Crowes to Maxim: Say sorry to the band
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Maxim has apologized to its readers, but the Black Crowes are still waiting for the magazine to say sorry to the band for publishing a negative review of their new CD without listening to the full album. |
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Yahoo News |
9:33am PST |
Aetna postpones sedation policy change
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Aetna Inc. said Wednesday it will delay a proposed policy that would stop covering the cost of using anesthesiologists during colonoscopies. |
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Yahoo News |
9:30am PST |
U.S. may sign Guantanamo accord with Algeria: agency
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States may soon sign an
agreement with Algeria on the possible return home of Algerian
prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, the official
Algerian APS news agency reported on Wednesday. |
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Cnn.com |
9:29am PST |
Husband gets life for 'monstrous' crime |
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Summary: The Wisconsin man convicted of murdering his wife by poisoning her with antifreeze was sentenced today to life in prison with no chance of parole. "Your crime is so enormous, so monstrous, so unspeakably cruel that it overcomes all other considerations," |
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Cnn.com |
9:18am PST |
Bernanke worrying about inflation |
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Summary: The economy still faces slower growth prospects but increasing inflation concerns could "complicate" the Federal Reserve's efforts to stimulate the economy, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers today.
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Yahoo News |
9:17am PST |
McCain mocks Obama's Iraq comments
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain mocked Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday for saying he would take action as president "if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq." |
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Yahoo News |
9:16am PST |
Colombia rebels free four captive lawmakers: Red Cross
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Colombian rebels have released four
hostage lawmakers to a Venezuelan delegation in the Colombian
jungles in a deal brokered by President Hugo Chavez, the Red
Cross said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:13am PST |
EU hits Microsoft with record 899 million euro anti-trust fine
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - EU competition regulators dealt a new blow to Microsoft on Wednesday, fining the US software giant a record 899 million euros for defying a landmark 2004 anti-trust ruling. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PST |
Senate's Reid to defy Bush veto on foreclosure bill
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
said on Wednesday he plans to defy a White House veto threat
and try to win passage of a sweeping bill aimed at curbing an
explosion of home foreclosures. |
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Yahoo News |
9:09am PST |
Fossil sea monster big enough to "bite a car"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The fossil of a 15 meter (50 ft) long "sea
monster" found in Arctic Norway was the biggest of its kind
known to science with dagger-like teeth in a mouth large enough
to bite a small car, researchers said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
9:07am PST |
Venezuelan helicopters fly into Colombia to recover hostages
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Venezuelan helicopters flying Red Cross colors flew into the Colombian jungle Wednesday on a mission to pick up four hostages to be released by FARC guerrillas. |
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BBC News |
9:06am PST |
Winehouse's court date is shelved |
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Summary: Singer Amy Winehouse has a Norwegian court appearance postponed as her lawyer argues police made mistakes. |
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CTI News |
8:55am PST |
Poll: What is a church's most important responsibility to attendees? |
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Summary: Poll: What is a church's most important responsibility to attendees?
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CTI News |
8:55am PST |
The Problem with Counting Christians |
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Summary: Pew's new Religious Landscape Survey is helpful, but the maps are fuzzier than you might expect.
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