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Cnn.com |
7:27am PST |
Florida, Michigan re-votes come down to money |
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Summary: Democrats agree that new voting is needed to determine convention delegates for Florida and Michigan, but they can't figure out how to pay for it.
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Cnn.com |
7:27am PST |
Top model, rights campaigner missing |
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Yahoo News |
7:26am PST |
Goodell seeks harsher spying penalties
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In the aftermath of the discipline levied against the New England Patriots for taping opponents defensive signals, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell is seeking a sweeping crackdown on spying for next season. |
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Yahoo News |
7:20am PST |
Hamas claims deadliest attack in Israel in 2 years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza
Strip claimed responsibility on Friday for the shooting of
eight students in a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, the most
lethal Palestinian attack in Israel in two years. |
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Cnn.com |
7:19am PST |
100,000 dogs given second chance at life |
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BBC News |
7:12am PST |
Top terror recruiter jailed |
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Summary: A man said to be one of the most influential recruiters for Islamist extremism in the UK is jailed. |
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7:07am PST |
Ex-foreign secretary Pym dies |
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Summary: Former Tory Foreign Secretary Lord Francis Pym has died after a prolonged illness, his family says. |
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Yahoo News |
7:07am PST |
Chavez calls for cooling tensions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Friday for a cooling of tensions with Colombia and predicted that a summit of Latin American presidents in this seaside capital "is going to be positive." |
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BBC News |
7:02am PST |
BBC iPlayer comes to the iPhone |
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Summary: The BBC launches a version of its iPlayer video on demand service for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. |
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Yahoo News |
7:00am PST |
Economy hit with biggest job loss in five years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. employers cut payrolls for a
second straight month during February, slashing 63,000 jobs for
the biggest monthly decline in nearly five years as the
nation's labor markets weakened steadily, a government report
on Friday showed. |
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Yahoo News |
6:54am PST |
Israel on alert after Hamas claim responsibility for Jerusalem attack
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Islamist Hamas movement on Friday claimed responsibility for an overnight gun attack which killed eight Jewish teenagers at a Jerusalem religious school. |
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BBC News |
6:52am PST |
Walliams completes Africa swim |
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Summary: Little Britain star David Walliams completes his "swim to Africa" with Olympic rower James Cracknell for the BBC's Sport Relief. |
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BBC News |
6:49am PST |
Man denies killing wealthy writer |
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Summary: A Chinese financial trader tells a court he was not responsible for murdering a reclusive millionaire author. |
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BBC News |
6:48am PST |
Faster TB test results on the way |
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Summary: A faster blood test for tuberculosis infection has been developed by UK researchers. |
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Cnn.com |
6:44am PST |
'American Idol' down to its final 12 |
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BBC News |
6:41am PST |
Malaysia set for general election |
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Summary: Campaigning draws to a close on the eve of Malaysia's election, which the ruling coalition is expected to win. |
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Yahoo News |
6:39am PST |
Employers slash jobs by most in 5 years
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Employers slashed jobs by 63,000 in February, the most in five years, the starkest sign yet the country is heading dangerously toward recession or is in one already. |
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BBC News |
6:26am PST |
Israel buries victims of shooting |
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Summary: Thousands of mourners attend the funerals of eight students shot by a Palestinian in Jerusalem. |
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Cnn.com |
6:20am PST |
Ron Paul hints at ending presidential campaign |
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Summary: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is hinting that his run for the White House is about to end, saying the "presidential campaign will soon wind down."
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Yahoo News |
6:20am PST |
Israelis mourn 8 killed at seminary
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Thousands gathered Friday outside a bullet-scarred Jewish seminary in Jerusalem to mourn eight students killed by a suspected Palestinian gunman. Hamas militants in Gaza claimed responsibility for the attack. |
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Yahoo News |
6:18am PST |
Obama adviser says Clinton "a monster"
(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." |
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Yahoo News |
6:15am PST |
Hamas claims Jerusalem college shooting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist
movement, claimed responsibility on Friday for the shooting
attack in Jerusalem the previous evening in which a local
gunman killed eight students at a Jewish religious school. |
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BBC News |
6:10am PST |
Ex-councillor shot in Basque area |
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Summary: A former Socialist town councillor is shot dead in Spain's Basque region just ahead of national elections. |
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Yahoo News |
6:05am PST |
US stocks fall on employment report
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. stock futures signaled a sharply lower open Friday after the government's much-anticipated February employment report came in weaker than expected. |
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Yahoo News |
6:01am PST |
U.S. Feb payrolls drop biggest in nearly five years
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. employers cut payrolls for a
second straight month during February, slashing 63,000 jobs for
the biggest monthly decline in nearly five years as the
nation's labor markets weakened steadily, a government report
on Friday showed. |
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Yahoo News |
5:56am PST |
U.S. checks border stop for link to New York blast
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. authorities are checking
whether several people stopped at the Canadian border are
linked to an explosion that damaged a military recruiting
station in New York, police said on Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
5:55am PST |
Job losses worst in five years |
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Summary: Employers made their deepest cut in staffing in in almost five years in February, according to a closely watched government report Friday that showed the labor market far weaker than expected, fueling already building recession fears.
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Yahoo News |
5:49am PST |
Iranian cleric urges high turnout to beat foes
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A hardline senior cleric urged Iranians
on Friday to turn out in force for a parliamentary election
next week and frustrate the United States and its allies who he
said wanted a low turnout. |
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BBC News |
5:46am PST |
Pet hamsters banned in Vietnam |
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Summary: Officials in Vietnam ban the ownership of hamsters, fearing the furry pets can cause disease. |
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ChristianPost |
5:45am PST |
Mohler Advocates Expository Preaching as Biblical |
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Summary: Prominent theologian Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. encouraged more than 3,000 pastors at the 2008 Shepherds’ Conference Thursday night to uphold the tradition of expository preaching despite the growing movement among younger churches to reject this type of p |
