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Yahoo News |
3:39pm PDT |
Boys survive being tossed from overpass
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Motorists watched in horror Wednesday as a woman tossed two young boys off a freeway overpass, then took the two-story leap into rush-hour traffic herself. But the shocking moment had an incredibly fortunate ending. |
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Cnn.com |
3:26pm PDT |
Navarrette: Clinton mixes messages on Obama |
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Summary: Harvard professor Samantha Powers, a former foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama, abruptly resigned last week after she was quoted in a Scottish newspaper calling Hillary Clinton a monster.
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BBC News |
3:25pm PDT |
Clinton aide quits over race row |
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Summary: A Clinton adviser resigns over comments that Barack Obama is leading the Democratic race because he is black. |
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Yahoo News |
3:18pm PDT |
Southwest grounds planes over new maintenance glitch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Southwest Airlines Co said
on Wednesday it had grounded more than three dozen planes,
cutting 4 percent of its scheduled flights, due to another
glitch in ensuring safety inspections are completed. |
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Cnn.com |
3:14pm PDT |
CNN.com readers respond to Ferraro |
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Summary: Former U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro is stepping down from Sen. Hillary Clinton's finance committee after drawing fire for remarks about Sen. Barack Obama amidst a tough Democratic presidential campaign
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ChristianToday |
3:09pm PDT |
Erotic hair straightener advert ruled offensive to Christians |
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Summary: An erotic television advertisement for hair straighteners that used religious imagery like rosary beads and the phrase thy will be done has been banned for being offensive to Christians |
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Yahoo News |
3:08pm PDT |
Ferraro leaves Clinton campaign post
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from an honorary post in Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding her comments that Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the presidential race if he weren't black. |
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Cnn.com |
3:04pm PDT |
Suspect charged, another hunted in UNC slaying |
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Summary: One suspect has been charged and police are hunting for another in connection with the killing of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson, police said today. Demario James Atwater, 21, is charged with first-degree murder. Still sought in the case |
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Cnn.com |
3:04pm PDT |
One charged, another hunted in UNC slaying |
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Summary: One suspect has been charged and police are hunting for another in connection with the killing of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson, police said today. Demario James Atwater, 21, is charged with first-degree murder. Still sought in the case |
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Yahoo News |
3:03pm PDT |
Rice, Gates to take missile shield talks to Russia
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit Russia March 17-18, with Russo-US ties sorely strained by US missile defense plans, officials said Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00pm PDT |
Spitzer resigns in disgrace over scandal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a startlingly swift fall from grace, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that made a mockery of his straight-arrow image and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges and perhaps disbarment. |
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Yahoo News |
2:56pm PDT |
Clinton and Obama disagree on Florida, Michigan revote
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
sharply disagreed on disputed contests in Florida and Michigan
on Wednesday, as Florida Democratic officials finished a
proposal for a new mail-in presidential primary. |
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ChristianPost |
2:54pm PDT |
Conservatives React to Spitzer's Fall |
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Summary: Although Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call-girl scandal has caused a break in public trust and calls for resignation, conservative groups say public outrage is misdirected with little indignation toward betrayed marriage ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:47pm PDT |
Three U.S. soldiers killed in southeastern Iraq: military
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in an
apparent rocket or mortar attack near Nassiriya in southeastern
Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. |
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ChristDot |
2:42pm PDT |
Democrat joins probe of 'prosperity' preachers |
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Summary: The investigation into the ministries' private planes, oceanside mansions, board oversight and involvement in for-profit businesses has divided the broader evangelical community, with some worrying about the potential for stricter regulations on all relig |
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Yahoo News |
2:21pm PDT |
Vegas man paints car like police cruiser
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jessie Vigil's black-and-white car sports a red-and-blue emergency bar across the top and the word "police" painted on the doors. Vigil, however, isn't a cop. Law enforcement agencies say what he's done with his car isn't illegal as long as he doesn' |
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Cnn.com |
2:20pm PDT |
Doctors: Pets can be source of staph superbug |
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Cnn.com |
2:18pm PDT |
Ferraro leaving Clinton campaign |
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Summary: An unapologetic Geraldine Ferraro said Wednesday that her comments about the impact of Barack Obama's race on the electorate were taken out of context, and she stands by her words.
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Yahoo News |
2:14pm PDT |
Eliot Spitzer resigns in disgrace
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a startlingly swift fall from grace, Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned Wednesday after getting caught in a call-girl scandal that made a mockery of his straight-arrow image and left him facing the prospect of criminal charges and perhaps disbarment. |
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Yahoo News |
2:12pm PDT |
Report: Woman, cat shared staph bug
(AP)
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Summary: AP - People struggling to get rid of recurrent staph infections might want to consider an often-overlooked source: the family pet. A German woman repeatedly battled the same strain of drug-resistant superbug MRSA until her cat was tested and treated. It's |
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Yahoo News |
2:07pm PDT |
2 charged in UNC student leader slaying
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two suspects were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing of the University of North Carolina's student body president. |
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Yahoo News |
2:06pm PDT |
Obama says Ferraro dividing Democrats
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama assailed as "slice and dice" politics Geraldine Ferraro's assertion that he wouldn't be where he is in the presidential race if he weren't black. |
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Cnn.com |
2:05pm PDT |
Cancer survivor wins Iditarod |
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Summary: NOME, Alaska (AP) -- Lance Mackey couldn't shake four-time champion Jeff King and his faster team.
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Cnn.com |
2:04pm PDT |
Southwest Airlines inspecting planes |
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Summary: Southwest Airlines has grounded dozens of planes following allegations that the airline broke federal safety rules, the airline said. Forty-four Boeing planes were grounded "to determine whether they should go through further safety inspections," a Southw |
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Yahoo News |
2:03pm PDT |
Southwest grounds 43 planes for checks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Southwest Airlines Co. grounded 43 planes to examine if they were structurally sound enough to carry passengers after it recently acknowledged it had missed required inspections of some planes for cracks. |
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Yahoo News |
2:02pm PDT |
EPA hikes rules to cut smog-clogged air
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The air in more than 300 U.S. counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the government says, ordering a multibillion-dollar expansion of efforts to clean up smog in a host of cities and towns nationwide. |
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Yahoo News |
1:54pm PDT |
Stocks dip a day after huge rally
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street's euphoria over a $200 billion plan from the Federal Reserve turned to caution Wednesday, leading stocks to retreat a day after their biggest rally in more than five years. |
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Yahoo News |
1:47pm PDT |
John Daly misses pro-am time at Bay Hill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am. |
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Cnn.com |
1:29pm PDT |
Suspect charged in UNC slaying case |
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Summary: A person of interest has been apprehended in connection with last week's killing of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson, authorities have told local media.
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ChristianPost |
1:28pm PDT |
Study: Behaviors Americans Consider 'Sinful' |
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Summary: Americans overwhelmingly believe in the concept of sin whether they are religiously involved or not, according to a new Ellison Research study released ... |
