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Tornado kills two in Florida |
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Summary: A tornado tore through a northern Florida city Friday, leaving two people dead and damaging dozens of homes and businesses, an emergency official said.
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Bush pushes democracy for Cuba
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Summary: AP - President Bush chastised most other countries Friday for "a sad and curious pattern" of doing little to speak out against human rights and political abuses in Cuba. "Unfortunately, the list of countries supporting the Cuban people is far too short an |
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5:19pm PST |
Myanmar junta refuses to amend charter barring Suu Kyi from polls
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Summary: AFP - Myanmar's ruling junta Friday flatly refused to amend its proposed constitution, which bars democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from elections, while accusing a UN envoy of "bias" against the regime. |
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4:41pm PST |
Five states to vote on affirmative action bans |
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Summary: Come election time in November, voters in five states might have a decision to make as big as whom to elect president.
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4:34pm PST |
Alcohol 'quickly' cuts heart risk |
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Summary: Middle aged non-drinkers can quickly reduce their risk of heart disease by having a daily tipple, say US researchers. |
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4:11pm PST |
WWII ship dead to be mourned |
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Summary: A ceremony is to be held at the newly discovered resting place of a navy warship sunk in 1940 with the loss of 110 lives. |
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4:10pm PST |
Clinton lowers expectations in Wyo.
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Summary: AP - A day before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama were to compete for a small scattering of delegates in Wyoming, Clinton cast herself as the underdog and said the odds are not in her favor. Clinton's campaign has sought to set low expec |
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4:06pm PST |
Polls open in Malaysian election |
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Summary: Malaysia's prime minister urges ethnic minorities to support his coalition as voters elect a new government. |
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4:04pm PST |
Home owners struggle to pay bills |
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Summary: One in five Scots home owners are struggling to meet their mortgage payments, a survey has revealed. |
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4:02pm PST |
Thatcher in hospital for checks |
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Summary: Baroness Thatcher has been taken to hospital for tests, a Conservative party spokeswoman confirms. |
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4:02pm PST |
Marion Jones enters federal prison
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Summary: AP - Marion Jones began her six-month sentence in federal prison Friday, punishment for lying to investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs and her role in a check-fraud scam. The former Olympic track star turned herself in before noon Friday a |
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4:02pm PST |
One dead as tornadoes rip through Florida and Georgia
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Summary: Reuters - Tornadoes cut through Florida
and Georgia on Friday, destroying homes, felling trees and
power lines and killing one person as a record series of winter
tornadoes continued to pound the United States. |
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4:02pm PST |
Kitten survives trip in shipping crate
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Summary: AP - A scrawny, black and white female kitten apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate. Cleveland Animal Protective League Executive Director Sharon Harvey says a Cleveland company that received the cra |
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3:41pm PST |
Obama, Clinton rustle up support in Wyoming |
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Summary: Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were in Wyoming on Friday, wrangling last-minute votes before Saturday's caucuses.
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3:15pm PST |
Drugs athlete Jones goes to jail |
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Summary: Former champion sprinter Marion Jones reports to a Texas jail to begin a six-month sentence for drug use. |
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Cnn.com |
3:14pm PST |
Second Colombian rebel leader killed |
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Summary: As South American officials tried to ease tensions sparked by Colombia's killing of a rebel leader inside Ecuador, the Colombian army announced the death of another top militant Friday.
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3:04pm PST |
Bush to veto bill banning waterboarding
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Summary: AP - The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. |
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2:57pm PST |
Presley: Not happy to announce pregnancy
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Summary: AP - Lisa Marie Presley wanted to keep her pregnancy private, but felt she had to say something when photos of her looking heavier were ridiculed in the news media. |
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2:56pm PST |
Elusive bird seen near Papua New Guinea
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Summary: AP - A pale-bellied bird species last seen in the 1920s and long thought to be extinct has been rediscovered near Papua New Guinea. The Beck's petrel was photographed last summer by an Israeli ornithologist in the Bismarck Archipelago, a group of islands |
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2:53pm PST |
NC campus mourning loss of slain leader
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Summary: AP - You couldn't escape Eve Carson's presence at the University of North Carolina. |
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2:49pm PST |
Latin American nations end crisis with handshake
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Summary: Reuters - The presidents of Colombia,
Ecuador and Venezuela ended a border dispute on Friday with a
summit handshake after a week of regional diplomacy in the face
of troop buildups. |
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2:47pm PST |
Obama rejects adviser's comments
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Summary: AP - A former adviser to Barack Obama who resigned Friday after calling rival Hillary Rodham Clinton "a monster" said Obama may not be able to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within a year as he has promised on the campaign trail. |
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2:47pm PST |
McCain flashes temper at reporter
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Summary: AP - Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he had spoken to Democratic Sen. John Kerry about being his vice president in 2004. "Everybody knows that I had a priv |
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2:13pm PST |
Recession fears rise on more job cuts
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Summary: Reuters - Employers unexpectedly cut jobs in
February at the steepest rate in nearly five years, a second
straight month of employment losses that heightened fears the
world's largest economy has skidded into recession. |
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2:12pm PST |
Fire forces hotel evacuation |
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Summary: Hotel guests are forced to spend the night in a school after a fire breaks out at an east London hotel. |
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2:07pm PST |
Colombia: Rebel killed by his security
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Summary: AP - A top rebel leader was killed by his own chief of security, who gave Colombian troops the leader's severed hand as proof, the defense minister said Friday. Ivan Rios was the second top rebel killed in a week, a major setback for the Revolutionary Arm |
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2:01pm PST |
Spain PM accuses Eta after death |
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Summary: Spain's prime minister accuses Basque group Eta of trying to upset Sunday's election by murdering an ex-councillor. |
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Dobson: Homeschool Ruling Strikes at Heart, Soul of Families |
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Summary: Conservative Christian leaders are outraged at the California appeals court decision last week rejecting a parent's right to educate their children at ... |
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1:47pm PST |
Leaders say Colombia crisis over |
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Summary: Presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela shake hands and agree to end a diplomatic crisis in the region. |
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1:47pm PST |
Archaeologists unveil finds in Rome digs
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Summary: AP - A sixth-century copper factory, medieval kitchens still stocked with pots and pans, and remains of Renaissance palaces are among the finds unveiled Friday by archaeologists digging up Rome in preparation for a new subway line. Archaeologists have bee |
