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Yahoo News |
3:17pm PST |
U.S. troop decision in Iraq late summer: official
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The top U.S. commander in Iraq will
likely take four to six weeks after a reduction in U.S. troop
levels ends in mid-July before deciding if more can go home, a
senior administration official said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:06pm PST |
Jets, Eagles make big free agency moves
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Philadelphia Eagles landed what was considered the biggest prize in this year's NFL free-agent sweepstakes. |
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BBC News |
2:53pm PST |
Turkey urges PKK to end struggle |
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Summary: Turkey calls on Kurdish PKK rebels to lay down arms after its forces leave Iraq following a week-long operation. |
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BBC News |
2:43pm PST |
EADS wins $40bn US aircraft deal |
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Summary: EADS and US company Northrop Grumman beat Boeing to win a $40bn US Air Force contract. |
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Cnn.com |
2:37pm PST |
Boeing loses out in $40B Air Force tanker deal |
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Summary: The U.S. Air Force today announced one of the largest military acquisition programs in U.S. history, saying it had chosen Northrop Grumman over Boeing to replace its aging air refueling tanker fleet. Many had expected Boeing to be favored over Northrop Gr |
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Yahoo News |
2:28pm PST |
NATO chief disputes U.S. view of Afghan control
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - NATO's top official took issue on
Friday with a U.S. intelligence assessment that the Afghan
government controls just 30 percent of the country and the
Taliban holds 10 percent. |
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Yahoo News |
2:27pm PST |
Fidel Castro says Raul fully in charge
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Fidel Castro said Friday he helped choose candidates for Cuba's new government, but he asserted that his brother Raul is fully in charge as the new president. In his first comments since his brother assumed the presidency last weekend, the elder Cast |
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Cnn.com |
2:16pm PST |
Human error caused Florida outage |
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Summary: Preliminary results of an investigation show that Tuesday's massive power outage in Florida was caused by human error, Florida Power and Light President Armando Olivera said Friday.
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BBC News |
2:11pm PST |
Harry withdrawn from Afghanistan |
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Summary: Prince Harry is pulled out of Afghanistan after news of his secret front line deployment leaked out. |
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Cnn.com |
1:55pm PST |
Clashes between McCain, Dems heat up |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, and the Democratic candidates are trading shots almost daily in what may be preview of the general election.
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BBC News |
1:38pm PST |
Paisley Jnr back on policing body |
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Summary: Former Stormont minister Ian Paisley Junior is appointed as a DUP representative to the Policing Board. |
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Yahoo News |
1:37pm PST |
Wall St tumbles on recession fears, AIG
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Stocks tumbled on Friday as another
round of weak economic data added to U.S. recession fears and a
record loss at insurer AIG underscored worries about more
write-downs in the financial sector. |
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BBC News |
1:36pm PST |
Iraqi Chaldean archbishop seized |
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Summary: Gunmen kidnap the archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, his church says. |
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Yahoo News |
1:34pm PST |
Thriving Taliban drugs show Afghan woes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Taliban have built a huge and profitable drug operation in Afghanistan while provincial governors look the other way, the latest grim sign of backsliding in a country America has spent six years and billions of dollars trying to salvage. |
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Cnn.com |
1:34pm PST |
Senior White House aide admits plagiarism |
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Summary: A senior White House official admitted Friday that he copied large sections of another writer's work for an essay appearing in a Fort Wayne, Indiana, newspaper.
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Yahoo News |
1:27pm PST |
White House aide accused of plagiarism
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A White House aide accused of plagiarism was chastised Friday and his actions were criticized as unacceptable. Timothy Goeglein, who has worked for President Bush since 2001, was accused of lifting material from a Dartmouth College publication and pr |
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Yahoo News |
1:24pm PST |
Iraq OKs execution of 'Chemical Ali'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Saddam Hussein henchman known as "Chemical Ali" for gassing thousands of Kurdish civilians is due to hang within the month, following the endorsement of his death sentence Friday by Iraq's presidential council. But even survivors were notably sub |
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Cnn.com |
1:20pm PST |
Deadly ricin found in Vegas hotel room |
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Summary: Two tests have confirmed a substance found in a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel room is the deadly poison ricin, and a man who was staying there has been hospitalized for more than two weeks and is currently in critical condition, police said today.
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Yahoo News |
1:20pm PST |
Judge unseals Barry Bonds' testimony
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A federal judge is unsealing Barry Bonds' grand jury testimony about steroid use, evidence that federal prosecutors used to indict him on perjury charges. |
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Yahoo News |
1:19pm PST |
Obama says Clinton ad plays on fears
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday of trying to "play on people's fears to scare up votes" with a television ad showing sleeping children and asking who would be more qualified to answer a national security emergency |
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PST |
Okla. man found guilty in girl's slaying
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A jury found a man guilty of first-degree murder Friday in the killing of a 10-year-old girl, reaching its decision within minutes the day after hearing his macabre videotaped confession. |
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BBC News |
1:16pm PST |
Rugby L: Leeds win world trophy |
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Summary: Leeds Rhinos win the World Club Challenge for the second time with an 11-4 victory over Melbourne Storm. |
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BBC News |
1:16pm PST |
Leeds win world club trophy |
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Summary: Leeds Rhinos win the World Club Challenge for the second time with an 11-4 victory over Melbourne Storm. |
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ChristianPost |
1:16pm PST |
Kentucky Church Ravaged During Tornado Begins Slow Recovery |
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Summary: The roof to the gym still leaks. The sound system is a hit-and-miss effort. The chairs scattered about the gymnasium don't quite feel like home to the members of Third Baptist ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:14pm PST |
Man critical after ricin find in Vegas
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Vials found in the motel room of a man hospitalized in critical condition tested positive for the deadly toxin ricin, authorities said Friday. There was no indication of any link to terrorist activity, Las Vegas police Deputy Chief Kathy Suey said at |
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Cnn.com |
1:13pm PST |
Protest at Miami high school turns rowdy |
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Summary: Police were called to Miami Edison Senior High School after a student protest became unruly Friday, officials said.
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Cnn.com |
1:10pm PST |
Brutal selloff hammers Wall Street |
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Summary: Stocks tumbled Friday, resulting in the second worst day of 2008, after AIG's record loss added to worries about the financial sector and more weak economic news intensified fears about a recession.
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Yahoo News |
12:59pm PST |
Man critical in Las Vegas after poison ricin found
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An unidentified man is in critical
condition with suspected ricin poisoning after staying in a Las
Vegas hotel room where the potentially deadly substance was
found, police said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:57pm PST |
At least 35 killed in Pakistan suicide bombing: officials
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - At least 35 people were killed and 50 wounded by a suicide bomber at a funeral in northwest Pakistan Friday for a police official killed earlier in the day, officials said. |
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ChristianPost |
12:41pm PST |
U.K. Poll: Jesus Third Most Popular Role Model for Children |
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Summary: Jesus Christ is the third most popular role model for children in Britain, according to adults surveyed in a new poll released ... |
