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Cnn.com |
1:34pm PDT |
Dow soars 417 points |
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Summary: Stocks rallied today as investors welcomed news that the Federal Reserve will lend up to $200 billion to banks and lenders as a means of loosening up tight credit markets. According to early tallies, the Dow Jones industrial average jumped almost 417 poin |
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Yahoo News |
1:33pm PDT |
Mideast military head resigns under fire
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East resigned Tuesday amid speculation about a rift over U.S. policy in Iran. |
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BBC News |
1:31pm PDT |
Call to show car 'lifetime price' |
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Summary: Showing the long-term cost of a car would encourage buyers towards "green" models, a UK government adviser says. |
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Yahoo News |
1:31pm PDT |
Stocks fly as Fed's cash injection eases credit fear
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Stocks surged more than 3 percent on
Tuesday, led by financial shares, after the Federal Reserve
said it would add up to $200 billion to strained credit markets
in a coordinated effort with other central banks. |
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Yahoo News |
1:27pm PDT |
Ferraro's remarks about Obama decried
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she disagrees with Geraldine Ferraro, one of her fundraisers and the 1984 vice presidential candidate, for suggesting that Barack Obama only achieved his status in the presidential race because he's black. |
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Yahoo News |
1:26pm PDT |
Pressure mounts on Spitzer to quit
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With pressure mounting to resign Tuesday over a call-girl scandal, Gov. Eliot Spitzer found himself with few friends and lots of powerful enemies, many of whom regard him as a sanctimonious bully who got what was coming to him. |
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Yahoo News |
1:25pm PDT |
Stocks shoot higher on Fed credit plan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street finally found a reason for a huge rally Tuesday, after the Federal Reserve said it plans to pump $200 billion into the financial markets to help ease the strain from the credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average shot up more than 41 |
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Yahoo News |
1:20pm PDT |
Woman forgotten in cell over weekend
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman being held as an illegal immigrant spent four days forgotten in an isolated holding cell at a courthouse with no food, water, or toilet, authorities and the woman said. |
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ChristianPost |
1:20pm PDT |
Christian Leaders Demand Social Justice on Capitol Hill |
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Summary: Hundreds of Christian leaders marched to Capitol Hill to meet with their representatives and convey their message of social justice and peace to cap off a large annual ecumenical gathering ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PDT |
'Gilligan's' Mary Ann caught with dope
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island," is serving six months' unsupervised probation after allegedly being caught with marijuana in her car. |
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Yahoo News |
1:13pm PDT |
Restraining order against Moss dropped
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman who obtained a restraining order earlier this year against New England Patriots star Randy Moss has requested that the order be dissolved and the case dismissed, court records show. |
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Yahoo News |
1:07pm PDT |
Top U.S. Mideast commander quits after Iran story
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Adm. William Fallon, the top U.S.
commander for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, will retire
because of misperceptions he disagrees with the Bush
administration on Iran, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on
Tuesday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:00pm PDT |
Fallon resigns as chief of U.S. forces in Middle East |
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Summary: Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia. Fallon, who had held the post for more than a year, cited what he called inaccurate news reports that put him at odds with the Bush administration over Iran.
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Yahoo News |
12:56pm PDT |
Clinton and Obama trade fire over campaign tactics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. presidential
contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded fire over
campaign tactics on Tuesday and avoided wading into a debate
over whether the New York governor, a fellow Democrat and
Clinton backer, should resign in a prostitu |
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BBC News |
12:47pm PDT |
US Middle-East commander quits |
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Summary: The head of US forces in the Middle East, Adm William Fallon, is stepping down, the Pentagon announces. |
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Cnn.com |
12:29pm PDT |
Stanford recruit, ball star gunned down |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw didn't have time to tell the gang members he wasn't one of them. The high school football star and Stanford recruit was gunned down before he could answer. Half a world away, his mother got the news while on duty in Iraq. "I was screaming and |
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Cnn.com |
12:29pm PDT |
Gangster arrested in killing of teen football star |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw didn't have time to tell the gang members he wasn't one of them. The high school football star and Stanford recruit was gunned down before he could answer. Half a world away, his mother got the news while on duty in Iraq. "I was screaming and |
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BBC News |
12:28pm PDT |
Boss of internet bank Egg resigns |
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Summary: The boss of Egg quits, although the internet bank says it is unrelated to a row over credit card cancellations. |
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Yahoo News |
12:21pm PDT |
Obama, Clinton battle in Mississippi
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Mississippi primary on Tuesday, last in a string of contests across the Deep South and the final tune-up before next month's high-stakes race in Pennsylvania. |
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Yahoo News |
12:19pm PDT |
Gas prices rise to new national record
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The cost of filling up the family car jumped to a record high Tuesday, adding to the challenges consumers already face with falling home values and rising food prices. |
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Yahoo News |
12:19pm PDT |
New race row rocks Democrats as Mississippi votes
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Barack Obama's camp on Tuesday called on his rival Hillary Clinton to fire history-blazing supporter Geraldine Ferraro, after she put the Illinois senator's stunning rise down to his race. |
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Yahoo News |
12:14pm PDT |
U.S. eases criticism of China and targets Russia
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States took aim at Russia
on Tuesday in its annual report on human rights, accusing the
government of corruption and electoral abuses, but seemed to
ease criticism of China ahead of the Olympic Games. |
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ChristianPost |
12:09pm PDT |
Gay Bishop Out of Anglican Summit |
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Summary: The first openly gay Episcopal bishop announced he will have no official role in a meeting this summer of world Anglican leaders, saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him "considerable ... |
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Yahoo News |
12:09pm PDT |
U.N. torture envoy says U.S. deny access to Iraq jails
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. investigator on torture said on
Tuesday the United States had denied his request to visit
U.S.-run jails in Iraq and insisted a visit could help clear
its legacy of the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib. |
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Yahoo News |
12:06pm PDT |
Quarter of teen girls have sex-related disease
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - More than one in four U.S. teen
girls is infected with at least one sexually transmitted
disease, and the rate is highest among blacks, the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:58am PDT |
Bush warns that gains in Iraq fragile and reversible
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush
warned on Tuesday that security gains in Iraq were "fragile"
and "reversible" as he appealed to skeptical Americans for
patience nearly five years after the U.S.-led invasion. |
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Cnn.com |
11:49am PDT |
Arrest made in slaying of Stanford recruit, ball star |
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Summary: Jamiel Shaw didn't have time to tell the gang members he wasn't one of them. The high school football star and Stanford recruit was gunned down before he could answer. Half a world away, his mother got the news while on duty in Iraq. "I was screaming and |
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Cnn.com |
11:46am PDT |
Will prostitution-linked governor quit? |
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Summary: Aides to New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Lt. Gov. David Paterson are discussing a transfer of power today, less than 24 hours after it emerged that federal prosecutors had linked Spitzer to a high-end prostitution ring, a top legislative staffer told CNN. |
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Cnn.com |
11:44am PDT |
Suicide bombers hit Pakistan's 'FBI' |
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Summary: Two suicide bombers exploded a car Tuesday at a building containing the offices of Pakistan's national investigative agency, destroying it and killing and wounding people inside.
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BBC News |
11:35am PDT |
Fears over forced marriages |
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Summary: A committee of MPs looking into the issue of forced marriages suggests more than 2,000 children are missing. |
