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Cnn.com |
8:42am PST |
Invalid votes keep Clinton, Obama stuck |
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Summary: Neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen. Hillary Clinton can reach the 2,024 delegates needed to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee without delegates from Florida and Michigan. But those two states' primary results don't count since each elected |
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Yahoo News |
8:42am PST |
Ecuador, Colombia fight for border crisis support
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Ecuador and Colombia battled for
support from Latin American leaders at a summit where
governments sought on Friday to defuse a regional crisis over a
cross-border raid by Colombia to kill leftist rebels. |
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ChristianPost |
8:39am PST |
Clergy Sex Abuse Claims Drop, Payouts Nearly Double |
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Summary: The number of sex abuse claims against Roman Catholic clergy dropped for the third consecutive year, but total payouts to victims nearly doubled to reach their highest level ever, according to a new report for the U.S. Conference of Catholic ... |
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BBC News |
8:37am PST |
Chad's 'orphans' returning home |
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Summary: The 103 children in Chad caught up in an abduction scandal are to return to their families, Unicef says. |
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BBC News |
8:35am PST |
Athletics: Chambers makes final |
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Summary: Controversial sprinter Dwain Chambers cruises into the men's 60m final at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia. |
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Cnn.com |
8:35am PST |
Chinese hackers: We tapped into Pentagon |
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Summary: They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.
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Cnn.com |
8:35am PST |
Chinese hackers: No site is safe |
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Summary: They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.
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BBC News |
8:33am PST |
Man held as shots fired at police |
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Summary: A man is arrested after shots are fired at police officers in north London. |
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BBC News |
8:31am PST |
Top extremist recruiter jailed |
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Summary: A man said to be a top recruiter for Islamist extremism is jailed indefinitely for public protection. |
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BBC News |
8:24am PST |
Regulators face their own review |
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Summary: The National Consumer Council begins a year-long review into the performance of regulators in the UK. |
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Cnn.com |
8:20am PST |
Marketer ditches 6-figure salary to save oceans |
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Summary: After witnessing the rapid devastation of a Cayman Island coral reef where he had been diving since childhood, Todd Barber was moved from horror to action.
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ChristianToday |
8:20am PST |
Change most uncomfortable most essential |
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Summary: Change may not always be enjoyable but it is still good for us |
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Yahoo News |
8:18am PST |
U.S. payrolls fall again, raising recession fears
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. 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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Yahoo News |
8:14am PST |
U.N. panel calls for U.S. death penalty moratorium
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States should impose a death
penalty moratorium and stop sentencing young offenders to life
in prison until it can root out racial bias from its justice
system, a United Nations panel said on Friday. |
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ChristDot |
8:12am PST |
A Town and a Baptist Pastor Vie Over ‘Eternity’ |
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Summary: From The New York Times:
Upon reflection, Jim Nimmons could think of no particular event that led him to crawl atop the roof of the First Southern Baptist Church with a can of red paint and splash the world “eternity” across its shingles.
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BBC News |
8:09am PST |
Top extremist recruiter is jailed |
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Summary: A man said to be a top recruiter for for Islamist extremism is jailed indefinitely for public protection at the end of a major trial. |
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BBC News |
8:07am PST |
Six Plaid AMs to refuse pay rise |
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Summary: A number of Plaid assembly members will turn down a 8.3% pay rise, as the row continues over the award. |
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Yahoo News |
8:06am PST |
Belarus expels US ambassador
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Belarusian Foreign Ministry on Friday demanded that the U.S. ambassador leave the country and recalled its ambassador to the U.S. over Washington's economic sanctions against the ex-Soviet nation. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PST |
Chavez calls for cooling of tensions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Friday for a cooling of tensions with Colombia and predicted a summit of Latin American presidents in this seaside capital "is going to be positive." |
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Yahoo News |
7:56am PST |
U.N.'s Arbour says rights vital in terrorism cases
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Louise Arbour, who confirmed on Friday she would leave her post
at the end of June, said that countries cannot trample
fundamental freedoms when fighting terrorism. |
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Yahoo News |
7:54am PST |
Israel on alert as Hamas claims deadly Jerusalem attack
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Israel went on alert on Friday as crowds mourned eight teens killed by a Palestinian at a Jewish religious school in an attack claimed by Hamas that shook faltering peace talks. |
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BBC News |
7:50am PST |
Chavez calls for calm over crisis |
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Summary: Venezuela's President Chavez calls for a cooling of tensions with Colombia in the row over a border incursion. |
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BBC News |
7:49am PST |
US jobs fall for second month |
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Summary: The US has seen a decline in employment for the second month in a row as fears for the US economy grow. |
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Cnn.com |
7:47am PST |
Subprime mess CEOs defend pay |
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Summary: Two high-profile former Wall Street CEOs and the head of the nation's largest home lender defended their oversized pay packages to Congressional lawmakers Friday, arguing that recent reports grossly exaggerated their compensation in some instances
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Cnn.com |
7:46am PST |
BBQ-turned-'Robocop' chases off bums |
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Summary: It's midnight on the streets of Atlanta, and bar owner Rufus Terrill patrols his neighborhood with a rolling crime fighter of his own creation. Meet "Bum-bot," as Terrill describes it; others in his neighborhood call it simply, "Robocop."
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BBC News |
7:41am PST |
Rugby U: Ashton 'was right' |
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Summary: England coach Brian Ashton says he was right to drop Danny Cipriani for Saturday's Six Nations game against Scotland. |
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BBC News |
7:41am PST |
Spain attack halts poll campaign |
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Summary: Campaigning for elections in Spain is cancelled after a former Socialist town councillor is shot dead. |
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Cnn.com |
7:36am PST |
NY bomber, anti-war writer not same person |
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Summary: There were pre-blast pictures of the Times Square military office and the words "We did it." But the suspicious image and letters sent to Congress are not connected to the Manhattan explosion, police said. The contents and process it takes for a letter to |
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Cnn.com |
7:36am PST |
NY bomber, war critic not same person |
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Summary: There were pre-blast pictures of the Times Square military office and the words "We did it." But the suspicious image and letters sent to Congress are not connected to the Manhattan explosion, police said. The contents and process it takes for a letter to |
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Yahoo News |
7:31am PST |
Obama aide sorry for 'monster' comment
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama apologized Friday for telling a Scottish newspaper that rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is "a monster." |
