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Yahoo News |
9:15am PDT |
Senate backs some tax cuts, nixes others
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Summary: AP - The Senate on Thursday gave a sweeping endorsement to some of President Bush's tax cuts but rejected renewing others as all three major presidential candidates interrupted their campaigns to cast key votes on the budget. |
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BBC News |
9:03am PDT |
Cheltenham: Drever wins title |
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Summary: Inglis Drever puts in a majestic display to win his third World Hurdle title at the Cheltenham Festival. |
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BBC News |
9:03am PDT |
Cheltenham: Drever wins again |
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Summary: Inglis Drever puts in a majestic display to win his third World Hurdle title at the Cheltenham Festival. |
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ChristianPost |
9:01am PDT |
How Would Jesus Vote? |
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Summary: I’ll never forget the Values Voters Conference held in Washington, DC in 2006. Jerry Falwell made the statement that a Hillary Clinton Presidential candidacy would rally the evangelical troops better than a campaign run by Satan himself. The audience, whi |
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BBC News |
8:58am PDT |
Man arrested over Heathrow alert |
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Summary: A major security alert is under way at Heathrow after a man with a rucksack ran into the path of an aircraft. |
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Cnn.com |
8:55am PDT |
Man detained near Heathrow runway |
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Summary: A man was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport on Wednesday after getting onto the runway, police said.
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Cnn.com |
8:54am PDT |
106 children taken from kin to go home |
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Summary: They marshaled presidents, sparked worldwide debate, and put an international peacekeeping force in jeopardy, but the biggest concern for 103 children stranded in an orphanage in remote eastern Chad is to return home.
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BBC News |
8:47am PDT |
'Happy slap' teenagers sentenced |
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Summary: Two teenagers are sentenced for beating a man to death in West Yorkshire while their 15-year-old accomplice filmed it. |
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BBC News |
8:43am PDT |
Stocks fall on weakening dollar |
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Summary: US shares fall sharply, hit by dollar weakness and the news that a billion-dollar fund is on the verge of collapse. |
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BBC News |
8:39am PDT |
Party leaders given a grilling |
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Summary: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ian Paisley, Alex Salmond and Dafydd Elis Thomas are being quizzed by School Reporters. |
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Yahoo News |
8:39am PDT |
Kidnapped archbishop found dead: Iraqi official
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Summary: AFP - A Chaldean Catholic archbishop kidnapped last month in northern Iraq was found dead on Thursday, an Iraqi official said. |
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Cnn.com |
8:38am PDT |
Cannibalism forced on troops, Liberian aide says |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
8:32am PDT |
Widow's tribute to police chief |
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Summary: The widow of Michael Todd says he was a "loving father and husband", as his inquest is opened and adjourned. |
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BBC News |
8:32am PDT |
No 10 denies Mandelson EU rethink |
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Summary: Peter Mandelson is not expected to serve another term as EU commissioner, Downing Street says. |
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Yahoo News |
8:25am PDT |
Stocks swoon as dollar falls, gold jumps
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Summary: AP - Stocks tumbled Thursday as investors recoiled at a further decline in the dollar, spikes in gold and oil prices and a warning that a Carlyle Group fund is near collapse. The major indexes each lost more than 1 percent; the Dow Jones industrial averag |
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ChristianPost |
8:20am PDT |
Priest Sentenced to Life for Role in Rwandan Genocide |
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Summary: A United Nations war crimes court for Rwanda sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to life in prison for his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide that left 800,000 ... |
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Could John Ritter have been saved? |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Question doctors' sleep, nipple mix-up advice |
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Summary: At some point during last month's well-baby checkup for her son Isaac, Kamila McGinnis stopped listening to her pediatrician.
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
Question doctor's sleep, nipple mix-up advice |
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Summary: At some point during last month's well-baby checkup for her son Isaac, Kamila McGinnis stopped listening to her pediatrician.
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Cnn.com |
8:17am PDT |
When your gut is better than the pediatrician |
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Summary: At some point during last month's well-baby checkup for her son Isaac, Kamila McGinnis stopped listening to her pediatrician.
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Yahoo News |
8:15am PDT |
No one votes in Florida election
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Summary: AP - Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all? That's the situation city officials in Tamarac are facing. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County commu |
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Cnn.com |
8:15am PDT |
FBI misused letters to snoop, report says |
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Summary: The Justice Department's inspector general will release a report Thursday detailing more problems with the way the FBI used an investigative tool called national security letters.
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BBC News |
8:11am PDT |
Child rapist jailed for 11 years |
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Summary: A man who told a four-year-old girl he would kill her family if she did not perform sex acts is jailed. |
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BBC News |
8:09am PDT |
Gretna edging closer to closure |
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Summary: Gretna's administrator says the ailing club's situation has deteriorated and it may be impossible to play on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
8:09am PDT |
Football: Gretna closer to closure |
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Summary: Gretna's administrator says the ailing club's situation has deteriorated and it may be impossible to play on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:08am PDT |
AOL to pay $850M for social network Bebo
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Summary: AP - AOL said Thursday it will pay $850 million to acquire the online hangout Bebo, giving the struggling Internet company a foothold in an expanding business. |
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BBC News |
8:07am PDT |
Proposal for 11 new NI councils |
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Summary: The Northern Ireland Executive agrees on a compromise proposal to create 11 new councils. |
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Yahoo News |
8:00am PDT |
Billy Crystal to hit leadoff for Yanks
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Summary: AP - No joke: Billy Crystal is leading off for the New York Yankees. The comedian was put in the top spot for Thursday's exhibition game, listed as the designated hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates. |
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Yahoo News |
7:54am PDT |
Schilling placed on 60-day DL
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Summary: AP - The Boston Red Sox have placed Curt Schilling on the 60-day disabled list as he continues to rehabilitate his right shoulder. |
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Cnn.com |
7:49am PDT |
UNC suspect booked in Duke student killing |
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Summary: Police arrested a second suspect early Thursday in connection with the death of University of North Carolina student Eve Carson.
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