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Yahoo News |
8:35am PDT |
Stocks climb as JPMorgan raises Bear bid
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Summary: AP - Wall Street extended its big advance Monday as investors applauded a new agreement that will give Bear Stearns Cos. shareholders five times the payout than was outlined in a JPMorgan Chase & Co. buyout deal a week ago. Investors were also pleased by |
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8:34am PDT |
Detroit mayor charged with perjury
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Summary: AP - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top |
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BBC News |
8:28am PDT |
Football: Lampard & Rooney fit |
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Summary: Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney both train with the England squad ahead of Wednesday's friendly against France. |
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8:21am PDT |
Saudi king to boycott summit |
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Summary: Saudi Arabia says King Abdullah will not attend a forthcoming summit of Arab leaders in Syria. |
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8:21am PDT |
Iran 'behind Green Zone attack' |
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Summary: The top US general in Iraq says he has evidence Iran was behind Sunday's attack on Baghdad's Green Zone. |
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BBC News |
8:21am PDT |
MP calls for meeting over embryos |
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Summary: A Labour MP writes to Scotland's leading Roman Catholic to arrange a meeting over embryo research. |
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Cnn.com |
8:10am PDT |
Man declared dead feels 'pretty good' |
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8:08am PDT |
US home sales see surprise rise |
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Summary: US home sales unexpectedly rose in February but prices posted a record fall, industry figures show. |
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7:56am PDT |
Oil touches $100 on Saudi remarks |
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Summary: Crude oil prices touch $100 a barrel, as the dollar strengthens and Saudi Arabia makes reassuring comments. |
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Cnn.com |
7:55am PDT |
4,000 fallen in Iraq |
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Summary: Four U.S. soldiers died Sunday night in a roadside bombing in Iraq, military officials reported, bringing the American toll to 4,000 deaths. The grim milestone comes less than a week after the fifth anniversary of the start of the war.
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7:50am PDT |
Beckham seeks more than 100 caps |
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Summary: David Beckham says he would be honoured to earn his 100th cap against France but wants to continue beyond that. |
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7:50am PDT |
Football: Beckham eyes 100-plus |
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Summary: David Beckham says he would be honoured to earn his 100th cap against France but wants to continue beyond that. |
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7:44am PDT |
Home sales rose, prices fell in February
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Summary: AP - After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February which may have reflected more aggressive price cutting by sellers in some parts of the country, a real estate trade group reported. |
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7:42am PDT |
Morristown seeks help in Amish permits case |
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Summary: From the Watertown Daily Times:
The town is making a statewide appeal for help in prosecuting Amish men for building homes without permits.
Ten members of the conservative religious group have been charged in the clash between building codes and religiou |
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7:41am PDT |
Home sales rose in February
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Summary: AP - After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February which may have reflected more aggressive price cutting by sellers in some parts of the country, a real estate trade group reported. |
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7:39am PDT |
JPMorgan raises Bear purchase price
(AP)
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Summary: AP - JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased it offer Monday for Bear Stears Cos. to $10 per share from a bargain-basement price of $2 per share, hoping to assuage shareholders of the ailing investment bank. |
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7:37am PDT |
Tiger Woods' winning streak ends
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Summary: AP - Tiger Woods' winning streak is over. The world's No. 1 golfer's run of seven straight victories worldwide ended Monday at the CA Championship, where he was unable to come back from a five-shot deficit over the final seven holes of the rain-delayed to |
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7:34am PDT |
Missing 10-year-old boy is safe |
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Summary: A 10-year-old boy who police were concerned about after he went missing is found safe and well. |
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7:31am PDT |
Clinton calls for panel on housing woes
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Summary: AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton called on President Bush on Monday to appoint "an emergency working group on foreclosures" to recommend new ways to confront the nation's housing finance troubles. |
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BBC News |
7:26am PDT |
Liberians suspend Ghana protest |
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Summary: Liberian women refugees halt a five-week sit-in protest against their repatriation from a refugee camp in Ghana. |
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7:25am PDT |
World's tallest man struggles to fit in
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Summary: AP - Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus. |
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BBC News |
7:24am PDT |
Pakistan PM vows to free judges |
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Summary: New Pakistani PM Yusuf Raza Gillani says he will order the release of all judges detained under emergency rule. |
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Yahoo News |
7:24am PDT |
Drunk passenger causes emergency landing in Poland
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Summary: Reuters - A Lufthansa passenger jet made an
emergency landing in the southern Polish city of Katowice on
Monday after a drunk, unruly passenger began shouting that he
was a terrorist, border guards said. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22am PDT |
China's Olympic flame lit amid protests
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Summary: AFP - Protests against China's rights record and crackdown in Tibet disrupted ceremonies on Monday to light the Olympic flame for the Beijing Games. |
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Yahoo News |
7:14am PDT |
JPMorgan raises Bear Stearns bid to $10/share
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - JPMorgan Chase & Co said on Monday
that it raised its all-stock offer for Bear Stearns Cos |
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Cnn.com |
7:11am PDT |
Home sales rise; prices drop |
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Summary: Sales of existing homes rose in February as prices dropped a record 8.2% year-over-year, according to the latest reading on the battered housing market by an industry trade group released Monday.
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Yahoo News |
7:10am PDT |
Regulators let Home Loan Banks lift MBS holdings
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Regional U.S. banks will be allowed
to boost holdings of mortgage-backed securities by more than
$100 billion, regulators said on Monday, announcing another bid
to bring stability to troubled mortgage markets. |
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BBC News |
7:06am PDT |
JP Morgan raises Bear Stearns bid |
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Summary: JP Morgan Chase has raises its offer for Bear Stearns to $10 a share, but will now only buy a controlling stake. |
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Cnn.com |
7:06am PDT |
JPMorgan ups offer for Bear Stearns |
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Summary: Seeking to mollify angry shareholders and employees, JPMorgan Chase quintupled its offer for Bear Stearns to roughly $10 a share Monday.
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7:05am PDT |
Bhutto loyalist elected as Pakistan PM
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Summary: AP - A longtime loyalist of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was elected Pakistan's new prime minister Monday and vowed to seek the release of judges detained under President Pervez Musharraf. |
