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Yahoo News |
1:26pm PDT |
Truce calms Iraq, weakens prime minister
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Summary: AP - Rockets fell on the Green Zone and random machine gun fire rang out Monday in the southern city of Basra as Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr sought to rein in his gunmen after a week of battles that claimed about 400 lives. |
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1:21pm PDT |
Obama Would Have Left Church if Wright Stayed |
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Summary: White House hopeful Barack Obama suggests he would have left his Chicago church had his longtime pastor, whose fiery anti-American comments about U.S. foreign policy and race relations threatened Obama's campaign, not stepped ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:21pm PDT |
Bush starts Europe tour in NATO aspirant Ukraine
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Summary: AFP - US President George W. Bush arrived in Ukraine Monday at the start of a tour to push NATO allies for more support in Afghanistan and to reach a compromise with Russia on defence plans. |
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1:18pm PDT |
Married troops can live together in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When American soldiers get off duty in Iraq, the men usually return to their quarters, the women to theirs. But Staff Sgt. Marvin Frazier gets to go back to a small trailer with two pushed-together single beds that he shares with his wife. |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
U.S. defense analyst guilty in China spy case
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A U.S. Defense Department analyst
pleaded guilty to passing classified information to an agent
working for the Chinese government, the Justice Department said
on Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:08pm PDT |
Autism mystery remains as numbers grow |
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Summary: The triplets were happy, healthy boys. But at 18 months, one became withdrawn, one screamed at night and one stopped talking. Doctor after doctor told the boys' parents to just wait, but now all are known to have autism -- the neurological disorder that b |
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ChristianPost |
1:05pm PDT |
Evangelical Leaders: Jews Need Jesus Christ |
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Summary: Dozens of prominent evangelical leaders recently endorsed a statement declaring a fact that many Christians already hold to be true – that Jewish people need the Gospel and Jesus Christ to receive eternal ... |
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Cnn.com |
1:05pm PDT |
Addicted doctors still treating patients |
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Summary: A woman who says she had to forgo cancer treatment because of botched surgery by a California doctor says she was never made aware that the doctor was being treated for alcoholism, and had two DUI convictions.
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Yahoo News |
12:53pm PDT |
Opposition claim clear lead in Zimbabwe vote
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition claimed a clear lead over President Robert Mugabe and his party, as pressure mounted Monday for the swift announcement of full results from presidential and parliamentary polls. |
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Cnn.com |
12:37pm PDT |
FBI's MLK wiretaps called 'wonderful resource' |
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Summary: FBI wiretaps have "given us the most powerful and persuasive source of all for seeing how utterly selfless Martin Luther King was," as a civil rights leader, according to a leading civil rights scholar.
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Cnn.com |
12:27pm PDT |
Gore puts own money into huge advocacy blitz |
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Yahoo News |
12:14pm PDT |
Complications from heartburn on the rise
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chronic heartburn is a daily acid bath for the esophagus, and complications from it are on the rise. |
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Cnn.com |
12:06pm PDT |
Cuba opens tourist hotels to its citizens |
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Summary: Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on good and services that the average Cuban can't afford.
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Cnn.com |
11:58am PDT |
What would you ask Big Oil? |
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Summary: Under the backdrop of record gas prices and record profits, Congress is set to grill executives Tuesday from the world's five biggest oil companies.
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11:45am PDT |
Anna Nicole's son died of drug overdose, jury says
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Tabloid star Anna Nicole Smith's son
Daniel died of a drug overdose, an inquest jury in the Bahamas
ruled on Monday. |
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BBC News |
11:45am PDT |
Doctor suspended over scan errors |
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Summary: A doctor who wrongly gave the all-clear to 20 breast cancer patients is suspended for 12 months. |
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Yahoo News |
11:37am PDT |
Final opener at Yankee Stadium postponed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The beginning of the end will have to wait. The final opening day at Yankee Stadium was postponed because of rain Monday, pushing back New York's game against the Toronto Blue Jays. |
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Yahoo News |
11:33am PDT |
Bush seeking support for Afghanistan war
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush wants to bolster the multinational fight in Afghanistan by reminding NATO allies that the war is in their interest — and by persuading them to send more troops into battle. |
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BBC News |
11:27am PDT |
Global to buy Classic FM owner |
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Summary: Global Radio says it will buy GCap Media, the owner of radio stations Classic FM and Xfm, in a £375m deal. |
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Yahoo News |
11:24am PDT |
US charges Al-Qaeda leader with Africa bombings
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Military prosecutors have charged a Tanzanian Al-Qaeda leader held at Guantanamo Bay with war crimes for the US embassy bombings in Africa, and want his execution, the Pentagon said Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:19am PDT |
When reflux's burn is more serious
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chronic heartburn is a daily acid bath for the esophagus, and complications from it are on the rise. |
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BBC News |
11:14am PDT |
Air seat firm strikes major deal |
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Summary: About 200 new jobs could be created at a company in County Down after it struck a new deal with Delta Airlines. |
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Yahoo News |
11:13am PDT |
Treasury spells out regulatory overhaul plan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
revealed sweeping plans on Monday for streamlining a hodgepodge
of regulations that are blamed for allowing the U.S. mortgage
crisis to balloon into a full-blown economic threat. |
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Cnn.com |
11:10am PDT |
Mom of drowned kids: Husband threatened them |
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Yahoo News |
10:53am PDT |
Combo pill cuts blood pressure and heart risks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Lotrel, a pill combining two blood
pressure drugs in one, was so effective at preventing heart
attacks and other problems in a clinical trial that the study
was stopped early, and its findings may change the way
hypertension is treated, U.S. |
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Yahoo News |
10:52am PDT |
Treasury sees some regulatory changes this year
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Some parts of the Treasury's
sweeping plan to revamp the nation's financial regulation could
go into effect as early as this year, an official of the
department said on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
10:27am PDT |
Sadr fighters vanish from Iraq's streets
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Gun-toting fighters of hardline Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr melted away from Iraqi streets on Monday after week-long clashes with security forces that killed at least 461 people. |
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BBC News |
10:17am PDT |
Dainty space truck proves itself |
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Summary: Europe's "Jules Verne" freighter edges to just 12m from the space station to show its readiness to dock. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14am PDT |
No sign Iraq clashes will affect U.S. drawdown: Gates
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates
said on Monday he had seen no signs that recent violence in
southern Iraq would affect a planned drawdown of U.S. troops. |
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Yahoo News |
10:14am PDT |
Food price inflation changes how we shop
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Steadily rising food costs aren't just causing grocery shoppers to do a double-take at the checkout line — they're also changing the very ways we feed our families. |
