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Cnn.com |
12:06pm PST |
Man in critical condition after exposure to ricin |
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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 |
12:00pm PST |
Economic woes sink stocks; Dow down 300
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Summary: AP - Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of depressing economic and earnings reports and high oil prices stoked concerns about the health of economy. The major stock indexes fell more than 2 percent, with the Dow Jones industrials at times giving up |
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Cnn.com |
11:57am PST |
Author: My best-selling Holocaust book is a hoax |
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Yahoo News |
11:53am PST |
Man in Las Vegas critical, ricin poison suspected
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Summary: Reuters - A man is in critical condition after
the deadly poison ricin was found in his Las Vegas hotel room,
police said on Friday. |
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ChristianPost |
11:48am PST |
Huckabee Surprised by Hagee's McCain Endorsement |
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Summary: Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expressed dismay Thursday over the Rev. John Hagee’s endorsement of frontrunner John McCain, accusing the evangelical leader of putting politics ahead of ... |
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Cnn.com |
11:44am PST |
Cannibal killer convicted in minutes |
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Yahoo News |
11:19am PST |
Reds' Alex Gonzalez has broken knee
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Summary: AP - Cincinnati Reds shortstop Alex Gonzalez has a broken knee. Team physician Dr. Timothy Kremchek examined Gonzalez on Friday and said the infielder has a compression fracture on his left knee. Gonzalez will be evaluated again in three weeks. |
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Cnn.com |
11:11am PST |
Ranger: Even baby elephants to die |
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ChristianPost |
11:08am PST |
Oregon Teens Suspended for Wearing Crucifixes |
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Summary: A pair of Albany teenagers suspended for "gang-related behavior" because they were wearing crucifixes say they were only wearing gifts from their ... |
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Cnn.com |
11:07am PST |
Gas prices straining budgets, readers say |
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Summary: Rising gas prices are hitting CNN.com readers in the wallet, and many say they are staying in and scaling back spending to try to keep up.
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Yahoo News |
10:56am PST |
Bomb kills 35 at Pakistan funeral
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A suicide bomber attacked the funeral for a slain police officer in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley, killing at least 35 people and wounding 62 others, police said. |
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Yahoo News |
10:55am PST |
Stocks lose ground amid economic woes
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Summary: AP - Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of economic and earnings reports and a further rise in oil prices stoked concerns about the health of economy. The major stock indexes fell more than 1.5 percent, with the Dow Jones industrials giving up more |
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Yahoo News |
10:54am PST |
Study finds dogs, robots cheer elderly
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dogs may have a hard time wrapping their paws around this one: Robotic competition is nipping at their heels in the man's-best-friend department. |
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Cnn.com |
10:40am PST |
Man in coma after ricin exposure |
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Summary: Police in Las Vegas are investigating the discovery of what they said is the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room. Preliminary tests show the substance is ricin, authorities said, but other tests to confirm it are under way.
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Cnn.com |
10:38am PST |
Pakistan: Scores dead in funeral explosion |
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Summary: An explosion at the funeral Friday of a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan has killed 30 people and injured between 50 and 55, province police said.
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Cnn.com |
10:38am PST |
Jury takes minutes to convict cannibal killer |
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BBC News |
10:26am PST |
Football: Fifa block Cousin move |
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Summary: Football's governing body Fifa blocks Rangers striker Daniel Cousin's proposed £3m move to Fulham. |
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Yahoo News |
10:24am PST |
Clinton hits Obama with ad questioning experience
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's experience in
handling a national security crisis on Friday as polls showed
her losing ground to Obama ahead of Tuesday's contests in Texas
and Ohio. |
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BBC News |
10:11am PST |
Mugabe dubs poll rivals 'witches' |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe launches election campaign by calling his rivals a group of "witches and charlatans". |
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10:03am PST |
Sewer workers are poisoned by gas |
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Summary: Safety at the Belfast sewers project is reviewed after four workers are treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. |
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Cnn.com |
9:59am PST |
Clintons bank on '70s alliances to win Texas |
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Summary: Garry Mauro will never forget that night in 1972 when he says Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham ignored the post-election party surrounding them in Austin, Texas, and huddled in a corner to talk about changing the future. It was in Texas that the New York s |
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BBC News |
9:55am PST |
Berlin gallery in Islam art row |
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Summary: A Berlin art gallery closes an exhibition where one poster made fun of Islam's holiest shrine. |
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BBC News |
9:54am PST |
Suicide bomb at Pakistan funeral |
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Summary: At least 27 people are reported killed in a suicide attack on a police funeral in Pakistan. |
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Yahoo News |
9:49am PST |
Bomb kills 30 at Pakistan funeral
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Summary: AP - A suicide bombing at a funeral for a police officer killed at least 30 people and wounded 62 others Friday in northwestern Pakistan, a police official said. |
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Cnn.com |
9:40am PST |
Jury hears John Ritter's final message |
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Cnn.com |
9:40am PST |
AT&T pays for 'free' ringtones |
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Yahoo News |
9:40am PST |
Toxin ricin found in Las Vegas hotel room
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Summary: Reuters - Ricin, a deadly poison, was
discovered in a hotel room in Las Vegas but is not thought to
be terrorism related, police and FBI officials said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
9:34am PST |
'Genius' exam cheat spared jail |
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Summary: An ex-banker and the student he helped to cheat in exams at York University are given suspended jail sentences. |
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Cnn.com |
9:29am PST |
Hiker's killer faces death penalty in new case |
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Summary: Florida prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Gary Michael Hilton, who already is serving a life sentence in Georgia for killing a young woman he met hiking on New Year's Day.
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Yahoo News |
9:28am PST |
Space shuttle Endeavour cleared for March 11 launch
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Summary: Reuters - NASA managers on Friday
cleared the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour for lift-off on March
11 on the first of three flights to deliver a huge Japanese
research complex to the International Space Station. |
