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1:45pm PST |
Stocks flat after weak economic data
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Summary: AP - Wall Street closed narrowly mixed Monday as investors wrestled with record-high commodities prices and data that pointed to a continually weakening economy. |
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1:42pm PST |
McCain says he can best handle crisis
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Summary: AP - Republican Sen. John McCain said Monday he's the best prepared to deal with a dead of night national emergency, not his Democratic rivals. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have argued in recent days over who would exercise superior judgm |
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1:30pm PST |
Clinton to press ahead after primaries
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Monday she'll press on with the campaign after Tuesday's crucial primaries, arguing that momentum is on her side despite 11 straight losses to rival Sen. Barack Obama. |
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1:28pm PST |
UN approves new Iran sanctions |
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Summary: The UN Security Council votes to impose a third round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. |
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Cnn.com |
1:22pm PST |
Cop's wife gets life for love triangle murder |
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1:20pm PST |
Luxury homes torched in possible ecoterrorism |
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Summary: Five luxury homes burned today north of Seattle in what could be a case of ecoterrorism, officials said. A sign with the letters "ELF" was found in the "Street of Dreams" development. ELF may stand for Earth Liberation Front, which the FBI has called an e |
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1:17pm PST |
Luxury homes burn in apparent eco-attack
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Summary: AP - Three seven-figure dream homes went up in flames early Monday in a Seattle suburb, apparently set by eco-terrorists who left a sign mocking the builders' claims that the 4,000-plus-square-foot houses were environmentally friendly. |
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1:08pm PST |
Study outlines risks for teen passengers
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Summary: AP - Car crashes are the leading cause of death for tweens and teens, and a new study outlines some of the most dangerous circumstances: Riding unbuckled with new teen drivers on high-speed roads. These were the three biggest risk factors contributing to |
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Cnn.com |
1:04pm PST |
Colombia: Files hint Chavez gave FARC $300M |
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Summary: Computers captured from a deceased rebel leader document "tremendously revealing" and "very grave" links between Ecuador and Colombian rebels, Colombia's director of national police said. His comments came after Ecuador and Venezuela rushed troops toward |
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1:02pm PST |
Calif. Supreme Court Takes Up Same-Sex 'Marriage' |
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Summary: Conservative legal groups will face off with gay rights groups before the California Supreme Court Tuesday in a precedent-setting hearing that will determine whether two people of the same sex can ... |
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12:55pm PST |
Colombia says Chavez funds rebels as tensions rise
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Summary: Reuters - Colombia accused
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday of funding Marxist
rebels on its soil, intensifying a dispute that has prompted
Chavez to send tanks and troops to the border. |
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12:51pm PST |
Ministers support EU climate plan |
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Summary: EU environment ministers broadly back a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least a fifth by 2020. |
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12:47pm PST |
Doc accused of hastening death for patient's organs |
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Summary: A respected California transplant doctor faces charges he hastened a comatose man's death to retrieve his organs -- a far-reaching case that could impact the nation's organ donation industry. If convicted, the doctor could get eight years in prison.
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12:43pm PST |
US strikes at terror target in Somalia
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Summary: AP - The U.S. Navy fired at least one missile into a southern Somali town before dawn Monday, targeting a terrorism suspect as an Islamic group with links to al-Qaida appears to be gathering sway again in this lawless African nation. |
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12:36pm PST |
Clinton: 'I'm just getting warmed up'
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested she will press on following crucial primaries Tuesday, arguing that momentum was on her side despite 11 straight losses to rival Barack Obama that have imperiled her Democratic presidential nomination bid. |
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Cnn.com |
12:32pm PST |
New Iran sanctions target some civilian goods |
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12:31pm PST |
Man tried to abduct two girls |
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Summary: A man abducted a 12-year-old girl and attempted to take a nine-year-old in Birmingham, police say. |
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12:29pm PST |
U.N. council approves new sanctions on Iran
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. Security Council
imposed a third round of sanctions on Iran on Monday for
refusing to suspend sensitive nuclear activities but Tehran
dismissed the council's decision as illegal and illegitimate. |
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12:20pm PST |
Microsoft grows Web business services
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Summary: AP - Microsoft Corp. will begin offering its online business services to companies of all sizes, no longer limiting them to those with more than 5,000 users, chairman Bill Gates said Monday. |
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12:16pm PST |
NHS car parking 'sour grapes' row |
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Summary: Labour ministers in Cardiff and London fall out over plans to scrap car parking charges at Welsh hospitals. |
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Cnn.com |
12:13pm PST |
Clinton hammers Obama on NAFTA |
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Summary: Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama tried to sway undecided voters in Ohio and Texas on Monday, a day before those states hold crucial primaries that could determine the Democratic nomination.
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12:08pm PST |
First crack convicts freed in sentencing reform |
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Summary: New sentencing guidelines were expected to lead Monday to the early release of more than a dozen federal inmates convicted on crack-cocaine charges.
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12:07pm PST |
New Stats on Unorthodox Churchgoers in America |
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Summary: A new survey has broken down America’s church attendance to reflect the growing number of “church” options that have redefined how Christians worship on ... |
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12:04pm PST |
Canada says didn't misrepresent Obama over NAFTA
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Summary: Reuters - Canada on Monday denied it had tried to
sway the U.S. presidential election by misrepresenting
Democratic candidate Barack Obama with the suggestion that he
didn't really believe his criticisms of the North American Free
Trade Agreement. |
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BBC News |
11:57am PST |
Football: 'No fear' for Arsenal |
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Summary: Cesc Fabregas insists Arsenal will show no fear when they face Champions League holders AC Milan in the San Siro on Tuesday for a place in the last eight. |
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11:48am PST |
Tennis: Murray beats Federer |
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Summary: Britain's Andy Murray beats world number one Roger Federer 6-7 (6-8) 6-3 6-4 in the first round of the Dubai Championship. |
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11:44am PST |
Black starts jail sentence in US |
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Summary: Former media tycoon Conrad Black has started his six and a half year jail sentence at a Florida prison. |
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11:38am PST |
Criticism, arrests overshadow Medvedev landslide
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Summary: AFP - Western criticism and dozens of opposition arrests in Moscow on Monday overshadowed Dmitry Medvedev's triumph in a presidential election to replace Russian leader Vladimir Putin. |
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11:24am PST |
Venezuela, Ecuador threaten Colombia
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Summary: AP - Venezuela and Ecuador ordered troops to their borders with Colombia, denouncing the killing of a rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil. Colombia responded on Monday with charges that documents found at a bombed rebel camp link President Hugo Chavez to the |
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Yahoo News |
11:24am PST |
Ecoterror link eyed in Wash. fires
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Summary: AP - Fires gutted three multimillion-dollar model homes in a Seattle suburb on Monday, and authorities found a sign purportedly left by eco-terrorists that mocks claims that the homes were environmentally friendly. |
