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Yahoo News |
10:36am PDT |
Red Sox end boycott threat of Japan trip
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Summary: AP - The Boston Red Sox ended a threatened boycott Wednesday of their final spring training game in Florida, resolving a dispute over paying coaches for the season-opening trip to Japan. |
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Yahoo News |
10:35am PDT |
Global warming rushes timing of spring
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The capital's famous cherry trees are primed to burst out in a perfect pink peak about the end of this month. Thirty years ago, the trees usually waited to bloom till around April 5. |
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BBC News |
10:32am PDT |
Zimbabwe rejects free poll fears |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's government dismisses accusations it is failing to meet democratic obligations ahead of polls. |
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BBC News |
10:20am PDT |
Vietnam war photojournalist dies |
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Summary: The death is announced of a photojournalist whose Vietnam images helped galvanise the anti-war movement. |
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CTI News |
10:11am PDT |
Poll: How many books do you read? |
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Summary: Poll: How many books do you read?
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CTI News |
10:11am PDT |
Recent News Briefs |
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Summary: PCUSA bars non-celibate gay clergy, Answers in Genesis launches online journal, and a NY court rules out-of-state same-sex marriages are valid.
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CTI News |
10:11am PDT |
Quotation Marks: Andy Pettitte, Bill Clinton, and Others |
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Summary: Recent comments by Andy Pettitte, Bill Clinton, and others.
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CTI News |
10:11am PDT |
The Silence of God |
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Summary: A Turkish theologian finds the image of Christ in the persecuted church.
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ChristDot |
10:11am PDT |
Jesus through Anne Rice's eyes |
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Summary: From National Catholic Reporter:
The Road to Cana, published this month, follows Ms. Rice's bestselling 2005 religious fiction debut, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. While the first installment in the series limned Jesus' childhood, the second focuses on t |
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BBC News |
10:04am PDT |
McCanns welcome apology |
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Summary: Madeleine McCann's parents accept £550,000 damages over false newspaper claims about her disappearance. |
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ChristianPost |
9:56am PDT |
Five Years Later, Where are the Christians in Iraq? |
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Summary: It's been exactly five years since President Bush gave the green light for the Iraq war that besides toppling Saddam Hussein has also caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians to disappear from their ancestral ... |
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Yahoo News |
9:51am PDT |
Wall Street pulls back after huge rally
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stocks pulled back Wednesday as investors paused a day after the market's huge rally and digested better-than-expected results at Morgan Stanley that eased concerns about the investment banking sector. The Dow Jones industrials fell about 80 points. |
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BBC News |
9:46am PDT |
Oil shares drag down Wall Street |
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Summary: Wall Street's main share indexes go into reverse, dragged down by weaker US oil stocks. |
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BBC News |
9:43am PDT |
Suffolk killer makes appeal bid |
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Summary: A man found guilty of the murder of five women lodges an application for an appeal. |
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Yahoo News |
9:40am PDT |
Firefighters battle Tennessee oil well blaze
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An eastern Tennessee oil and natural
gas well erupted in flames sparked by a pickup truck Wednesday
morning, the owner of the well's operator, Walden Resources,
said. |
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Cnn.com |
9:37am PDT |
Tourist caught in Tibet as riots erupt |
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Summary: The world got its first independent look at rioting in the streets of Tibet's capital in video shot by an Australian tourist last week.
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Yahoo News |
9:37am PDT |
Red Sox refuse to take field for game
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Boston Red Sox refused to take the field for their final spring training game in Florida on Wednesday and threatened to boycott their flight to Japan for their season openers unless their coaches and other staff are paid for the trip. |
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Yahoo News |
9:31am PDT |
Mortgage lenders to pump $200 billion into markets
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The two largest U.S. mortgage
finance companies on Wednesday won approval to pump up to $200
billion into the distressed U.S. mortgage market, the latest
step in government efforts to ward off a credit crunch. |
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BBC News |
9:28am PDT |
Bangladeshi writer 'exiled again' |
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Summary: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen reportedly arrives in Europe after protests in India forced her into hiding. |
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Cnn.com |
9:26am PDT |
Female vets report sexual, mental trauma |
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Summary: On a good day, Keri Christensen spends the day watching her children. She prepares their meals, gets them ready for school and helps them with their homework.
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BBC News |
9:13am PDT |
Rugby: Cipriani backs Ashton |
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Summary: England fly-half Danny Cipriani says coach Brian Ashton should keep his job after a mixed Six Nations campaign. |
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BBC News |
9:13am PDT |
Rugby: Cipriani wants Ashton |
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Summary: England fly-half Danny Cipriani says coach Brian Ashton should keep his job after a mixed Six Nations campaign. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
McCain visits rocketed Israeli town
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain on Wednesday visited an Israeli town hit
frequently by Palestinian rockets from the Gaza Strip and
voiced doubts a peace deal could be reached this year. |
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Yahoo News |
9:11am PDT |
Papers show Clinton's days as first lady
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton kept her schedule packed when allegations exploded that her husband had an affair with a White House intern, according to papers released Wednesday that show her daily activities as first lady. |
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BBC News |
9:09am PDT |
Vietnam 'hub for illegal timber' |
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Summary: Vietnam has become a major South-East Asian hub for processing illegally logged timber, a report says. |
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Yahoo News |
9:06am PDT |
Five years on, Bush again talks of Iraq victory
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said on
Wednesday he had no regrets about the unpopular war in Iraq
despite the "high cost in lives and treasure" and declared that
the United States was on track for victory. |
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Yahoo News |
9:00am PDT |
Iraqi law paves way for provincial vote
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iraq's presidential council approved a law Wednesday that paves the way for provincial elections, giving a major boost to U.S.-backed efforts to promote national reconciliation on the fifth anniversary of the war. |
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BBC News |
9:00am PDT |
Teachers tick off school minister |
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Summary: An education minister endures low-level jeering from teachers as he justifies class sizes of 38 pupils and more. |
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Yahoo News |
8:58am PDT |
Five years on, Bush vows victory in Iraq
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush on Wednesday defended his decision to go to war against Iraq five years ago, vowing no retreat as he promised the battle against extremists would end in victory. |
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Yahoo News |
8:54am PDT |
Contaminant found in heparin identified
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. health officials have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths and are trying to determine how the chemical got into the drug. |
