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Cnn.com |
7:41am PDT |
Mom throws kids off bridge, jumps; all survive |
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Yahoo News |
7:41am PDT |
Stocks trade mixed after Tuesday rally
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street paused Wednesday, trading narrowly mixed a day after a huge rally triggered by the Federal Reserve's plans to pump liquidity into distressed financial markets. |
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Yahoo News |
7:36am PDT |
Suicide doctor plans congressional run
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian is planning to run for Congress in Michigan. Kevorkian is on parole since being released from prison last year. |
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BBC News |
7:35am PDT |
Second SocGen employee detained |
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Summary: A second employee at Societe Generale is arrested as part of an investigation into huge losses at the bank. |
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Yahoo News |
7:34am PDT |
New York Gov. Spitzer to resign Wednesday: NYT
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is
expected to resign on Wednesday morning over a sex scandal
involving a prostitute, The New York Times said, citing unnamed
staff members. |
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BBC News |
7:32am PDT |
Scandal-hit NY governor 'to quit' |
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Summary: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is to resign after being linked to a prostitution ring, reports say. |
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BBC News |
7:31am PDT |
Darling puts up car and drink tax |
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Summary: Chancellor Alistair Darling unveils big increases in tax on alcohol and high polluting cars in his first Budget. |
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Cnn.com |
7:31am PDT |
Martin: 2 states don't deserve revote |
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Summary: For two weeks we have watched nearly every political hack from Michigan and Florida hit the airwaves to tell us that voters in those states deserve to have their votes counted, and new elections should be called for and paid by? the Democratic National Co |
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Yahoo News |
7:27am PDT |
Woman tries to bring skeleton on plane
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage control handlers found the skeleton of her brother sealed in a plastic bag in her luggage, police said Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:26am PDT |
Clinton supporter defends Obama race remarks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The only woman ever to be on a major
party's U.S. presidential ticket on Wednesday stood by her
comment that Sen. Barack Obama is ahead in the Democratic race
for the White House because he is black. |
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Cnn.com |
7:25am PDT |
Nicolas Cage look-alike fools Real Madrid |
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Cnn.com |
7:23am PDT |
Tips to Spring clean your career |
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Summary: Ah, the arrival of Spring: The sun is out and it's time to get your act together. You can pull down those holiday decorations. Wash the layers of mud and salt off your car. Take those running shoes -- that you bought last spring -- on their first jog arou |
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BBC News |
7:21am PDT |
Budget 'a green cop out' - Clegg |
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Summary: Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg accuses the chancellor of using green taxes to take more from low earners. |
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Yahoo News |
7:21am PDT |
New arrest in SocGen trading scandal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Police arrested another employee of
Societe Generale on Wednesday as they probe the
world's biggest rogue trading scandal, Paris prosecutors said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:20am PDT |
Democrats set for long fight after Obama wins Mississippi
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were set Wednesday for six weeks of trench warfare as their increasingly toxic White House race headed on to April's Pennsylvania primary. |
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BBC News |
7:18am PDT |
School admits £50 'admission fee' |
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Summary: A state faith school says it asked parents for a £50 "admission fee", as others are investigated. |
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BBC News |
7:10am PDT |
Hamas lays out truce conditions |
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Summary: Hamas lays out its conditions for a ceasefire with Israel to end the recent violence which has killed at least 125 people. |
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BBC News |
7:10am PDT |
Budget brings rise in whisky duty |
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Summary: The price of a bottle of whisky is set to rise by 55p after the first increase in duty for more than a decade. |
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BBC News |
6:57am PDT |
Booze hike 'won't stop bingeing' |
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Summary: Public health chiefs have welcomed the tax rises on alcohol, but said there is still a way to go before it starts influencing drinking habits. |
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BBC News |
6:54am PDT |
Boxing: Hatton unveils comeback |
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Summary: Ricky Hatton will return to action in May to defend his IBO light-welterweight title against Mexico's Juan Lazcano. |
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BBC News |
6:50am PDT |
Footballer in court over assault |
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Summary: Premiership footballer Joey Barton appears in court charged with assault and affray in Liverpool. |
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Theophiles |
6:42am PDT |
Gay Episcopal bishop rejects limited role |
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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 pain."
New Hampshire Bis |
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Yahoo News |
6:27am PDT |
New York Gov. Spitzer hangs on despite calls to resign
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer clung to
power on Wednesday despite growing pressure on him to resign
over a sex scandal linking him to a $1,000-an-hour prostitute. |
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BBC News |
6:21am PDT |
'Benefit fraud' mayor steps down |
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Summary: A town mayor facing court over alleged benefit fraud "voluntarily suspends himself" from office. |
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Yahoo News |
6:20am PDT |
Obama adds to delegate lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Barack Obama picked up five more delegates than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Mississippi's Democratic primary Tuesday. |
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ChristianPost |
6:17am PDT |
The Unrelenting Culture of Life |
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Summary: There is much talk today about the “culture of death” and certainly there are powerful forces emanating from competing worldviews that predictably foster such conditions. These worldviews have driven us as a culture to legitimize abortion, consider euthan |
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BBC News |
6:17am PDT |
UK growth forecast revised down |
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Summary: The UK economy is slowing but is well placed to weather economic storms, Alistair Darling says in his Budget. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Warm welcome to fuel duty delay |
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Summary: Business groups welcome the chancellor's decision to delay the introduction of a two pence increase in fuel duty. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Second SocGen trader is detained |
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Summary: A second trader at Societe Generale is arrested as part of an investigation into huge losses at the bank. |
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Yahoo News |
6:12am PDT |
Police make new arrest in SocGen trading scandal
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Police arrested another employee of
Societe Generale on Wednesday as part of its inquiry into an
alleged rogue trading scandal at France's second-biggest listed
bank, the Paris prosecutor's office said. |
