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BBC News |
8:18pm PDT |
Sex offenders face net use curbs |
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Summary: Sex offenders' e-mails are to be passed on to social networking sites, under new government guidelines. |
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BBC News |
8:08pm PDT |
Iraq sculpture destroyed by fire |
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Summary: A fire destroys a £2,000 sculpture put together out of oil drums and cardboard boxes in a London park. |
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Yahoo News |
7:46pm PDT |
Hawk swoops, attacks girl at Fenway Park
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 13-year-old girl touring Fenway Park on a school trip was attacked by a resident red-tailed hawk that drew blood from her scalp Thursday. She wasn't seriously hurt, but some observers saw an omen for a certain New York Yankees slugger in the attack |
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Yahoo News |
7:27pm PDT |
Obama's support among Democrats softens: poll
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Presidential candidate Barack
Obama's support among Democrats has softened over the last
month, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll released on
Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
7:25pm PDT |
FAA inspectors say concerns ignored
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The whistleblowers who exposed maintenance and inspection problems at Southwest Airlines told Congress their jobs were threatened and their reports of noncompliance were ignored for years. |
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BBC News |
7:24pm PDT |
Naomi bailed after row on plane |
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Summary: Supermodel Naomi Campbell is bailed on suspicion of assaulting a police office at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5. |
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BBC News |
7:20pm PDT |
Newspaper journalists on strike |
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Summary: Journalists at Express Newspapers are staging the first of three 24-hour strikes. |
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Yahoo News |
7:15pm PDT |
Census stumbles over high-tech counters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people the old-fashioned way — with paper and pencil. |
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Cnn.com |
7:14pm PDT |
250,000 get by on monthly food drops, in cloth huts |
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Summary: The woman walked into the sprawling camp outside the Somali capital carrying her month-old baby, with her other seven children in tow. After the death of her husband in the country's ongoing violence, the woman and her kids joined some 250,000 others in w |
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Yahoo News |
7:10pm PDT |
81 percent of Americans think country on "wrong track"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Four out of five Americans believe
things are "on the wrong track" in the United States, the
gloomiest outlook in about 20 years, according to a New York
Times/CBS News poll released on Thursday. |
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BBC News |
7:08pm PDT |
Lincoln letter sets record price |
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Summary: A famous 1864 letter from Abraham Lincoln sells for a record $3.4m (£1.7m) at auction in New York. |
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Yahoo News |
7:08pm PDT |
Police: Man threatened VTech-like attack
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
7:01pm PDT |
Wife's beer fortune aids McCain |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
7:01pm PDT |
Wife's beer fortune aids McCain |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
7:00pm PDT |
UCC calls for nationwide race discussion
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The United Church of Christ, the parent denomination of Barack Obama's church, announced Thursday that it will begin a conversation on racial issues beginning next month in response to sermons by Obama's pastor that were critical of the U.S. |
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Yahoo News |
6:43pm PDT |
Mugabe party plans fightback as Zimbabwe tensions mount
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Robert Mugabe and his top lieutenants were set to draw up battle plans Friday after their disastrous performance in Zimbabwe's elections as the deadline loomed for the results of presidential polls. |
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Yahoo News |
6:42pm PDT |
Jagr's 2 goals send Rangers to playoffs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jaromir Jagr scored two power-play goals in a 2-minute span of the first period, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 25 shots, and the New York Rangers clinched an Eastern Conference playoff berth with a 3-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night |
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Cnn.com |
6:41pm PDT |
Rice criticizes China for over rights activist |
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Summary: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized the Chinese government Thursday for sentencing human rights activist Hu Jia to jail and said the United States will soon launch new human rights talks with Beijing.
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Yahoo News |
6:25pm PDT |
Clinton denies Obama electability remark
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared Thursday to deny published reports that she told New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that Barack Obama cannot win the general election. But her campaign aides later said the New York senator had misunderstood the question. |
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Cnn.com |
6:19pm PDT |
Gunrunning suspect tracked down in Arizona |
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Summary: The alleged leader of a firearms trafficking network believed to be smuggling guns into Mexico -- where police say they are used against law enforcement officers by members of Mexican drug cartels -- was arrested Thursday in Arizona, authorities said.
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Yahoo News |
6:18pm PDT |
Russia's Putin joins NATO for unprecedented sumit
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russian President Vladimir Putin holds an unprecedented meeting with NATO leaders Friday amid deep divisions over the alliance's expansion but possible common ground in Afghanistan. |
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6:17pm PDT |
Prominent Chinese Rights Activist Sentenced to Jail |
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Summary: A Chinese court ruled Thursday that the writings and comments of one of the most prominent human rights activists in China amounted to inciting subversion, his lawyer ... |
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Yahoo News |
6:07pm PDT |
Will Britney Spears return to 'Mother'?
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An executive producer for "How I Met Your Mother" says he's open to having Britney Spears return for another cameo. "We always said, 'You know, if her character pops, we'll bring her back,'" Carter Bays told The Associated Press on Thursday. "I thoug |
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Yahoo News |
5:51pm PDT |
Report: Security in Iraq is improving
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A new classified intelligence assessment on Iraq says there has been significant progress in security since the last assessment was delivered in August, a senior military official said. |
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Cnn.com |
5:50pm PDT |
U.S. to Zimbabwe: Free seized Americans |
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Summary: Zimbabwe government forces today began cracking down on the main opposition party and foreign journalists -- including a New York Times reporter -- hours after officials announced another delay in releasing election results. A State Department spokesman c |
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BBC News |
5:50pm PDT |
Policing internet 'not ISP's job' |
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Summary: The head of one of Britain's biggest internet providers attacks the music industry for demanding action on pirates. |
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Yahoo News |
5:50pm PDT |
Slain kids' mom: Husband had been angry
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The mother of three young children who were allegedly drowned by their father in a Baltimore hotel room said Thursday that her estranged husband had become angrier in the weeks preceding the children's deaths. |
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Yahoo News |
5:48pm PDT |
Neglect, abuse seen in 90,000 infants
(AP)
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Summary: AP - About 1 in 50 infants in the U.S. have been neglected or abused, according to the first national study of the problem in that age group. Nearly a third of the victims were one week old or younger when the maltreatment was reported, government researc |
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BBC News |
5:42pm PDT |
Global warming 'dips this year' |
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Summary: Global temperatures will drop slightly this year due to the effects of La Nina, UN meteorologists say. |
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BBC News |
5:42pm PDT |
Global temperatures 'to decrease' |
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Summary: Global temperatures this year will be lower than in 2007 due to the effects of La Nina, UN meteorologists say. |
