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Yahoo News |
3:16pm PDT |
Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90
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Summary: AP - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90. |
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Yahoo News |
3:14pm PDT |
Calls mount for Olympic ceremony boycott
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony. |
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Cnn.com |
3:09pm PDT |
Storms flood Southern states, killing two |
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BBC News |
3:02pm PDT |
Damages due over McCann stories |
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Summary: Four UK newspapers are expected to pay damages to Madeleine McCann's parents after settling a libel action. |
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Yahoo News |
3:01pm PDT |
Workers uncovering mummified dinosaur
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Summary: AP - Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering something amazing: a nearly complete dinosaur, skin and all. |
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Yahoo News |
3:00pm PDT |
Clinton's first lady papers to go public
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Summary: AP - Thousands of pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's schedules as first lady are being released to the public after months of pressure and criticism that the Clintons were delaying the disclosure. |
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ChristianPost |
2:59pm PDT |
Apologetics Group to Examine Evidence for Jesus' Resurrection |
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Summary: With Easter around the corner, a new apologetics ministry announced this week that it will soon be offering a course that examines why the resurrection of Jesus is such a core teaching in the Christian ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:58pm PDT |
Record-setting young pilot dies at 26
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Summary: AP - Vicki Van Meter, celebrated for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Crawford County coroner said. She was 26. |
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BBC News |
2:45pm PDT |
Four appear on dissident charges |
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Summary: Four men appear in court in Dublin charged in connection with dissident republican activity. |
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BBC News |
2:40pm PDT |
Celtic stunned by Aberdeen in Cup |
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Summary: Darren Mackie's strike is enough to stun Celtic and seal a Scottish Cup semi-final place for Aberdeen. |
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Yahoo News |
2:37pm PDT |
Obama battles back in reverend's race row
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Summary: AFP - White House hopeful Barack Obama, swamped in an uproar over incendiary sermons by his former pastor, bid Tuesday to wrench back his fundamental message of racial and political healing. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22pm PDT |
Teen love caught hanging in the balance
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Summary: AP - Two teenagers, one dangling from a rope tied to an interstate bridge and holding a can of spray paint, did not see Sheriff's Deputy Melissa Myers when she drove up. They never got a chance to express their love with graffiti. |
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Yahoo News |
2:14pm PDT |
Obama rebukes preacher, urges race healing
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized his preacher's racially
charged sermons but said he could not disown him in a speech
urging Americans to move past their "racial stalemate." |
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Yahoo News |
2:09pm PDT |
Lynndie England blames media for photos
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Summary: AP - Lynndie England, the public face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, told a German news magazine that she was sorry for appearing in photographs of detainees in the notorious Iraqi prison, and believes the scenes of torture and humiliation served as a |
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Yahoo News |
2:01pm PDT |
Stocks soar, Dow rises 420 points
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Summary: AP - Wall Street stormed higher Tuesday as investors, optimistic following stronger-than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. |
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Yahoo News |
2:00pm PDT |
Record-setting child pilot dies at 26
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Vicki Van Meter, who made headlines in the 1990s for piloting a plane across the country at age 11 and from the U.S. to Europe at age 12, has died, an apparent suicide. She was 26. |
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ChristianPost |
1:57pm PDT |
Obama says Pastor Wrong and Divisive |
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Summary: Barack Obama unsparingly criticized his longtime pastor's words while strongly defending the man himself Tuesday in a politically risky speech that appealed to the country to overcome racism and the black anger and white resentment it ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:55pm PDT |
Justices agree on right to own guns
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Summary: AP - Americans have a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices declared Tuesday in a historic and lively debate that could lead to the most significant interpretation of the Second Amendment since its ratification two centuries ago. |
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ChristianPost |
1:41pm PDT |
High Court Agrees to Hear Indecency Case |
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Summary: The Supreme Court will decide whether it is indecent when some foul-mouthed celebrity drops the "F-word" on live television, stepping into its first major broadcast indecency case in 30 ... |
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ChristianPost |
1:40pm PDT |
Rediscovering Sabbath Rest |
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Summary: Only a few hours of technological abstinence had passed, but already Mark felt twitchy. His laptop lay abandoned, but almost as badly as a nicotine addict wants a cigarette, he was itching to go online, make a phone-call, send a text-message, do ... |
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Cnn.com |
1:28pm PDT |
FAA expands airline safety inquiry |
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Summary: The nation's air safety watchdog ordered its inspectors Tuesday to reconfirm that airlines are complying with federal rules after revelations that Southwest Airlines flew dozens of aircraft without certain mandatory inspections.
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ChristDot |
1:27pm PDT |
Dalai Lama calls for end to violence in Tibet |
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Summary: Chris Buckley and Lindsay Beck report for Reuters:
The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday he was willing to step down as head of the Tibetan government in exile if that was needed to stop the riots in his homeland, but China repeated its charge that he had master |
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Yahoo News |
1:19pm PDT |
Fed delivers 3/4 point cut
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Federal Reserve on
Tuesday slashed U.S. interest rates by a hefty three-quarters
of a percentage point, giving a lift to a Wall Street already
jubilant over stronger-than-expected investment bank earnings. |
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Yahoo News |
1:18pm PDT |
Fed cuts funds rate 0.75 point
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday slashed a key interest rate by three-fourths of a percentage point, moving aggressively to contain a credit crisis threatening to push the country into a severe recession. |
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Yahoo News |
1:17pm PDT |
McCain wary of Iran's influence in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, expressed fresh concern Tuesday about Iran's influence in Iraq and rising sway in Mideast. |
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Cnn.com |
1:17pm PDT |
Dow surges 420 points |
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Summary: Stocks jumped today, with the Dow surging 420 points -- its biggest one-day point gain in 5½ years -- after the Federal Reserve cut the fed funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, CNNMoney.com reports.
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Yahoo News |
1:13pm PDT |
Obama confronts racial division
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama confronted the nation's racial divide head-on Tuesday, tackling both black grievance and white resentment in a bold effort to quiet a campaign uproar over race and his former pastor's incendiary statements. |
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Yahoo News |
1:12pm PDT |
Judge says Mills twisted the truth
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A judge's ruling in the bitter Paul McCartney-Heather Mills divorce case shed new light Tuesday on a miserable marriage, saying Mills twisted the truth when convenient and made "exorbitant" financial demands. |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Arctic sea ice builds, but vulnerable
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Critical Arctic sea ice this winter made a tenuous partial recovery from last summer's record melt, federal scientists said Tuesday. But that's an illusion, like a Hollywood movie set, scientist Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center s |
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Yahoo News |
1:11pm PDT |
Stocks surges after Fed move
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street stormed higher Tuesday as investors, optimistic following stronger-than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. |
