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Yahoo News |
6:46pm PDT |
State fires 2 for looking at Obama file
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's passport file, a spokesman said Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:43pm PDT |
Duke barely gets past Belmont 71-70
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mighty, mighty Duke let teeny, tiny Belmont play with the big boys. And, for stretches, get the better of them. No. 2-seeded Duke actually trailed in the final 15 seconds before barely avoiding the monumental upset, using every last one of Gerald Hen |
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Yahoo News |
6:30pm PDT |
Tibetans dispute official claim of no riot deaths
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tibetans in China's mountainous
southwestern province of Sichuan on Friday disputed the
government's claim that nobody was killed in anti-Chinese riots
there this week, saying they believed several died. |
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Cnn.com |
6:29pm PDT |
Official: 3 wrongly viewed Obama's passport file |
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Summary: On three occasions since January, Sen. Barack Obama's passport file was looked at in an unauthorized way, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack tells CNN.
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BBC News |
6:28pm PDT |
Good Friday opening for bookies |
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Summary: Thousands of betting shops in England, Scotland and Wales are opening for the first time on a Good Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
6:14pm PDT |
Schneider: Clinton faces an uphill run |
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Summary: With both Florida and Michigan Democratic primary re-vote plans stalled, the road ahead for Hillary Clinton appears rocky. To overtake Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates, she would need to win about two-thirds of those delegates in the remaining con |
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Yahoo News |
6:07pm PDT |
Big quake, aftershocks hit China's Xinjiang
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A major earthquake and two aftershocks
hit China's northwestern region of Xinjiang on Friday morning,
the China Earthquake Administration said, but there were no
initial reports of casualties or damage. |
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BBC News |
6:03pm PDT |
Archbishop performs feet washing |
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Summary: The Archbishop of Canterbury takes part in the ancient Maundy Thursday ceremony of feet washing. |
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BBC News |
5:55pm PDT |
Michigan primary plan collapses |
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Summary: A proposal to hold a re-run of the Democratic Party's Michigan primary in June is dropped. |
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Yahoo News |
5:46pm PDT |
2 fired for looking at Obama's file
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A spokesman for the State Department says two contract employees have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at the passport file of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's passport file. |
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Yahoo News |
5:39pm PDT |
Michigan primary re-do plan collapses
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The drive for a second Michigan presidential primary collapsed Thursday, and a fresh dispute broke out between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton over the fate of the state's 156 national convention delegates. |
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Yahoo News |
5:29pm PDT |
Gay ex-gov wins round in divorce court
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Gov. Jim McGreevey didn't plan to torment his wife while they were married, a judge in their divorce case ruled Thursday, while allowing her to continue with a claim of marriage fraud. |
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Yahoo News |
5:11pm PDT |
Some people may transmit weaker AIDS virus: study
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - People with a genetic variation that
slows down HIV may also be causing a mutation to the AIDS virus
that makes it less potent if transmitted to others, researchers
said on Friday. |
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BBC News |
5:10pm PDT |
Massage illusion helps amputees |
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Summary: Amputees can feel relief from phantom limb pain just by watching someone else rub their hands, a study says. |
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BBC News |
5:08pm PDT |
Hospital and GP reforms 'flawed' |
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Summary: The government's drive to push care out of hospitals and into polyclinics is flawed, a leading expert says. |
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BBC News |
5:08pm PDT |
Meeting held on council cutbacks |
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Summary: A controversial meeting on £27m of Aberdeen City Council cutbacks is being held on Good Friday. |
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BBC News |
5:04pm PDT |
Speech problems 'need attention' |
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Summary: Facilities for children with speech and language difficulties are "patchy" in England, a report says. |
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BBC News |
5:02pm PDT |
Mortgage criteria getting tighter |
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Summary: Consumers are finding it tougher to get a mortgage as cautious lenders continue to withdraw or change deals. |
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Yahoo News |
5:00pm PDT |
USGS reports 7.2 magnitude quake in NW China
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Geological Survey has
verified a major 7.2 magnitude earthquake at 6:33 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, in northwestern China, 141 miles SE of Hotan,
Xinjiang. |
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BBC News |
4:45pm PDT |
Mobile calls on Emirates flights |
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Summary: Emirates says it is the first airline to allow a mobile phone call to be made on a commercial fight. |
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Cnn.com |
4:43pm PDT |
Clinton faces an uphill run |
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Summary: With both Florida and Michigan Democratic primary re-vote plans stalled, the road ahead for Hillary Clinton appears rocky. To overtake Barack Obama's lead in pledged delegates, she would need to win about two-thirds of those delegates in the remaining con |
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Cnn.com |
4:25pm PDT |
Magnitude 7.2 quake hits China |
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Summary: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 hit China on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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Cnn.com |
4:16pm PDT |
Ray leaps from water, kills woman on boat |
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Summary: A spotted eagle ray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys today and struck a woman who was on a boat with her husband and children, pushing her backwards onto the boat deck and killing her, officials said. A state official said the woman died when sh |
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Yahoo News |
4:07pm PDT |
USGS reports 7.2 magnitude quake in SE China
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Geological Survey has
verified a major 7.2 magnitude earthquake at 6:33 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, in southeastern China, 141 miles SE of Hotan,
Xinjiang. |
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Yahoo News |
4:04pm PDT |
Gates considers US force levels for Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Top U.S. military leaders presented Defense Secretary Robert Gates with their strategy for future force levels in Iraq Thursday, including expected recommendations for a pause in troop cuts for as much as six weeks later this summer. |
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BBC News |
3:57pm PDT |
Charity 'makes you feel better' |
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Summary: It's not having lots of money that makes us happy - it's spending money on others, say US researchers. |
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Cnn.com |
3:56pm PDT |
No deal reached on Dems' Michigan 're-vote' |
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Summary: Michigan's State Senate adjourned today without reaching an agreement to schedule a new Democratic primary on June 3. The Legislature is now on recess for two weeks, and by the time lawmakers return, it will likely be too late to approve and organize a ne |
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DJ Chuang |
3:49pm PDT |
a round of Spring conferences |
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Summary: As Holy Week wraps up and culminates with thousands of worship celebrations for Easter, I’ll hit the ground running with a whole slew of conference-attending on my itinerary:
March 23-25 @ Asian American Leadership Conference (Fullerton CA)
April 1 |
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BBC News |
3:45pm PDT |
Saudis to retrain 40,000 clerics |
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Summary: Saudi Arabia says it will retrain its 40,000 imams is part of a campaign to counter religious extremism. |
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Cnn.com |
3:45pm PDT |
Videos: Cops in cars chase suspects on foot |
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Summary: South Carolina Highway Patrol officers have been caught on dash-cam video hitting African-American suspects with patrol cars, using a racial epithet during at least one pursuit, a U.S. attorney said.
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