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BBC News |
11:08am PDT |
Man charged over student's murder |
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Summary: Police have charged a man with the murder of student Michael Alexander Jones in north London. |
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Yahoo News |
11:05am PDT |
Council gives U.N. bigger role in Afghanistan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. Security Council agreed
on Thursday to give the United Nations a greater role in
Afghanistan, where NATO-led forces are struggling to overcome a
surprisingly fierce Taliban insurgency. |
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Yahoo News |
11:02am PDT |
Mich. do-over vote looks unlikely
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The state Senate has adjourned without taking up a presidential primary bill, essentially ending Michigan's chances of holding a June 3 do-over Democratic election. |
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ChristianPost |
11:01am PDT |
Ex-Soviet Leader Gorbachev Admits He is Christian |
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Summary: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, admitted publicly for the first time on Wednesday that he is a ... |
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BBC News |
11:01am PDT |
Palestinian rivals' talks 'fail' |
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Summary: Talks between Fatah and Hamas, have collapsed, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says. |
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BBC News |
10:59am PDT |
Deported paedophile 'on register' |
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Summary: A paedophile who moved to Australia as a child and returned to the UK will be put on the sex offenders' register. |
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Yahoo News |
10:59am PDT |
Jobless claims rose last week
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The number of newly laid off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in nearly two months, providing more evidence that the weak economy is drying up jobs. |
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Cnn.com |
10:46am PDT |
Sen. Clinton at W.H. during Lewinsky encounters |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton was in the White House on multiple occasions when her husband had sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, according to newly released documents.
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Cnn.com |
10:32am PDT |
Marine: Why am I not a citizen yet? |
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Summary: Look into his face. He's put his life on the line in Iraq and he'll soon do the same in Afghanistan. Yet this decorated Marine is not an American. He's a citizen of El Salvador -- one of 20,000 "green-card warriors" serving in the U.S. military.
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Cnn.com |
10:31am PDT |
Officials: Woman dies after ray strikes her |
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Summary: A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
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Cnn.com |
10:31am PDT |
Officials: Woman dies after stingray strikes her |
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Summary: A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her, officials said.
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ChristianPost |
10:25am PDT |
Christian Filmmakers to Compete for Largest Cash Prize |
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Summary: A film festival for independent Christian filmmakers has announced it will be giving away the largest cash prize ever awarded at a film ... |
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Cnn.com |
10:10am PDT |
Drug runners building $1M drug subs |
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Summary: Sophisticated submarine-like boats are the latest tool drug runners are using to bring cocaine north from Colombia, U.S. officials say.
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BBC News |
10:00am PDT |
Too many short sentences - Straw |
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Summary: Too many people are being given short jail sentences, clogging up the system, says Justice Secretary Jack Straw. |
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BBC News |
9:59am PDT |
Two men die after lorries collide |
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Summary: Two men die following a collision between two lorries on the A5 between Omagh and Newtownstewart. |
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Yahoo News |
9:53am PDT |
Democrats debate Mich. delegate split
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday splitting Michigan's delegates with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a fair way of resolving the dispute over how to handle the state at the Democratic National Convention. |
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Yahoo News |
9:50am PDT |
China says opened fire on Tibetan protesters
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Chinese police opened fire and wounded
four protesters earlier this week in unrest in a Tibetan town,
its first admission that lethal weapons were used by its
security forces to crack down on anti-government
demonstrations. |
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Yahoo News |
9:48am PDT |
Iraq war drag on economy: Obama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama said the $500 billion cost
of the Iraq war is a drag on the U.S. economy and attempted to
lay some of the blame for it on Republican rival John McCain. |
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BBC News |
9:42am PDT |
Mugabe rival condemns vote plans |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's opposition leader condemns plans to count presidential ballots centrally, in case this helps rigging. |
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Cnn.com |
9:29am PDT |
Expert: U.S. in 'recession of choice' |
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Summary: Congress and the Fed missed chances to keep the country from falling into recession by acting too slowly, according to a well-respected economist. CNNMoney.com reports that Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, say |
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BBC News |
9:23am PDT |
Hundreds face cancer tests checks |
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Summary: Letters have been sent to 528 patients after it was revealed mistakes were made in prostate cancer tests. |
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BBC News |
9:22am PDT |
Air passengers' safety 'at risk' |
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Summary: Air traffic controllers are under such pressure to maximise the number of landings, passengers are at risk, the BBC is told. |
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Yahoo News |
9:14am PDT |
Scooter Libby loses law license
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former top White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was banned Thursday from practicing law in the nation's capital following his perjury conviction in the case of a CIA operative's leaked identity. |
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CTI News |
8:58am PDT |
Go Figure: Religious Affiliation |
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Summary: Recent statistics on religious affiliation in the U.S.
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CTI News |
8:58am PDT |
Black Power from the Pulpit |
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Summary: In wake of Obama's speech, author talks about 'The Decline of African American Theology.'
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CTI News |
8:58am PDT |
Slideshow: The Last Supper |
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Summary: The Upper Room in art.
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CTI News |
8:58am PDT |
'Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit' |
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Summary: Jesus' important addition to David's cry.
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Yahoo News |
8:57am PDT |
Soggy Midwest braces for more flooding
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise Thursday from heavy storms that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths. |
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BBC News |
8:52am PDT |
Police 'shot at Tibet protesters' |
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Summary: Chinese police shot and wounded four people during Tibetan protests in Sichuan province, state media says. |
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Cnn.com |
8:48am PDT |
Panel probes troops' electrocution deaths in Iraq |
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