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Cnn.com |
8:03pm PDT |
Shuttle makes rare nighttime touchdown |
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Yahoo News |
7:53pm PDT |
Clinton takes hit in new poll on White House race
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton's positive rating has dropped to a new low of
37 percent in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on
Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
7:53pm PDT |
Kidnap case failings 'continue' |
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Summary: Continued failings by probation staff are identified, 15 months after criticism over a paedophile's kidnap of a young girl. |
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BBC News |
7:45pm PDT |
N Korea expels S Korean managers |
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Summary: North Korea expels most of the South Korean managers from a joint economic zone on the border. |
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Yahoo News |
7:43pm PDT |
'American Idol' cuts another contestant
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Uneasy lies Chikezie, who won't wear the crown. The one-name singer — who previously worked security at Los Angeles International Airport — was eliminated from "American Idol" as the show narrowed the competition to nine finalists. |
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Yahoo News |
7:39pm PDT |
Riley: Shaq's criticisms of Heat 'sad'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Pat Riley can't understand why Shaquille O'Neal keeps talking about the Miami Heat. Riley responded to O'Neal's criticisms Wednesday with some of his own, saying his former center was wrong to disparage some of his old teammates and trainers in a Bos |
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Cnn.com |
7:38pm PDT |
Family of woman who died at airport files claim |
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Summary: The family of Carol Gotbaum, the woman who died last year while in police custody at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, filed an $8 million claim Wednesday against the city and its police department. Gotbaum was left alone in a holding |
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Cnn.com |
7:38pm PDT |
Airport, police face $8M lawsuit in woman's death |
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Summary: The family of Carol Gotbaum, the woman who died last year while in police custody at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, filed an $8 million claim Wednesday against the city and its police department. It is the first step in filing a wro |
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Cnn.com |
7:38pm PDT |
Family seeks $8 million in airport death |
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Summary: The family of Carol Gotbaum, the woman who died last year while in police custody at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona, filed an $8 million claim Wednesday against the city and its police department. It is the first step in filing a wro |
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Yahoo News |
7:36pm PDT |
U.N. rights body should take up Tibet crisis: group
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United Nations human rights council
should address the crisis in Tibet, a rights group urged, as
Beijing continued its propaganda blitz in the wake of more than
two weeks of Tibetan protests in western China. |
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BBC News |
7:10pm PDT |
Police budgets set to be capped |
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Summary: The budgets of up to five English police authorities are to be capped, the government is expected to confirm later. |
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Yahoo News |
7:06pm PDT |
Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's restaurants, has died, a Southern California McDonald's official said Wednesday. He was 89. |
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Cnn.com |
6:59pm PDT |
Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89 |
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Theophiles |
6:42pm PDT |
Your Vote Counts! |
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Summary: From grizzly's journal:
I went through the posts in the forum name suggestions story and pulled out all the suggested domain names, but I may have missed some. I created a survey where you can vote for your favorite. Only 100 votes are allowed for my fre |
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BBC News |
6:31pm PDT |
Review 'to shake up video games' |
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Summary: A review of the impact of the net and video games on children is expected to lead to a shake-up of the ratings system. |
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BBC News |
6:31pm PDT |
Review 'to change games ratings' |
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Summary: A review of how the net and video games affect children is expected to recommend changing the ratings system. |
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Yahoo News |
6:21pm PDT |
Endeavour lands safely in Florida
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. space shuttle
Endeavour returned to Florida on Wednesday, capping a milestone
flight that brought Japan fully into the International Space
Station partnership with the delivery of the first part of its
research laboratory. |
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Yahoo News |
6:17pm PDT |
MLB union, owners near drug policy deal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Lawyers for baseball players and owners were close to an agreement Wednesday on changes to toughen their drug rules, and the sides hoped to strike a deal by Sunday. |
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BBC News |
6:07pm PDT |
Endeavour touches down in US |
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Summary: The US space shuttle Endeavour lands in Florida after a record mission to the International Space Station. |
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BBC News |
6:07pm PDT |
Endeavour touches down in Florida |
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Summary: The US space shuttle Endeavour lands in Florida after a record mission to the International Space Station. |
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BBC News |
6:05pm PDT |
Asylum system 'shameful for UK' |
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Summary: The UK's treatment of asylum seekers falls seriously below the standards of a civilised country, says a report. |
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Cnn.com |
6:05pm PDT |
Shuttle touches down in darkness |
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BBC News |
5:59pm PDT |
MMR doctor to begin his defence |
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Summary: Dr Andrew Wakefield, whose work sparked a public crisis of confidence in the MMR vaccine, faces the GMC. |
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Yahoo News |
5:42pm PDT |
Endeavour makes rare nighttime landing
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven are back on Earth. The shuttle swooped through the darkness to the illuminated runway at Kennedy Space Center in a rare nighttime touchdown Wednesday. The landing was a bit delayed because clouds had |
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Cnn.com |
5:35pm PDT |
Family seeks $8 million in airport death |
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Summary: The family of a woman who died last year while in police custody at Phoenix, Arizona's, Sky Harbor International Airport filed an $8 million claim Wednesday against the city of Phoenix and its police department, the first step in filing a wrongful death s |
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Cnn.com |
5:34pm PDT |
Feds: Iraq paid for U.S. lawmakers' '02 trip |
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Summary: Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency funded a U.S. congressional delegation's trip during the buildup to the Iraq war, according to a federal indictment unsealed in the case of an Iraqi-born U.S. citizen charged with spying for Iraq. U.S. sources said the |
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BBC News |
5:20pm PDT |
Large waist 'an Alzheimer's risk' |
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Summary: A big waistline in your 40s could almost triple the threat of dementia in old age, according to new research. |
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Yahoo News |
5:16pm PDT |
Ex-MLB manager Gomez hit by pickup truck
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former major league manager Preston Gomez was critically injured Wednesday when he was struck by a pickup truck at a gas station. Police Sgt. Jeff Wade said the 84-year-old Gomez sustained serious head injures when he was hit by the truck as he walke |
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Yahoo News |
5:09pm PDT |
Kan. woman recovering from toilet ordeal
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A woman who may have spent nearly two years in a bathroom, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to sores on her body, remains hospitalized and in pain from medical procedures, family members said Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
5:09pm PDT |
Nimrod replacement under threat |
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Summary: The MoD is advised to cancel the replacement order for the Nimrod fleet because of delays and spiralling costs. |
