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Yahoo News |
5:17pm PDT |
Bush, Putin aim to defuse tensions in Black Sea summit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush and Russia's
Vladimir Putin will try to ease strains over missile defense
and NATO expansion and polish their legacies at a farewell
summit on the Black Sea starting on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
5:16pm PDT |
Clintons' earnings exceed $100m |
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Summary: Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her husband earned more than $100m in eight years, tax returns show. |
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Yahoo News |
4:52pm PDT |
AP: Govt. plans to cut Army war tours
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration plans to announce next week that U.S. soldiers' combat tours will be reduced from 15 months to 12 months in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning later this summer, The Associated Press has learned. |
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Cnn.com |
4:45pm PDT |
Dozens of children taken from polygamist ranch |
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Summary: Authorities today removed 52 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, from a West Texas ranch occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs. Eighteen girls have been placed in the temporary custody of the state under a court order. A |
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ChristianPost |
4:45pm PDT |
Anti-Darwin 'Expelled' Film, Atheist Saboteurs Clash Ahead of Release |
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Summary: As the pro-intelligent design documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” makes its way to select audiences, its producers worry that intelligent design opponents may try to sabotage it even before the official release ... |
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Yahoo News |
4:44pm PDT |
Severe storms rip through the South
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Strong thunderstorms toppled trees, knocked out power and damaged homes Friday in Mississippi and Alabama, while flooding in Kentucky forced evacuations and left a 2-year-old girl dead. |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
Owings leads D-Backs past Rockies 8-1
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Colorado Rockies celebrated their NL championship Friday with a pregame jubilee filled with fireworks, fly-bys and flashbacks, then played nothing like the charmed team that won its first pennant six months ago. |
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BBC News |
4:39pm PDT |
Olympic torch to arrive in London |
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Summary: The Olympic torch is due to arrive in London from St Petersberg as part of its journey to the Beijing 2008 games. |
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Yahoo News |
4:34pm PDT |
Clintons made nearly $109M since 2000
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton made nearly $109 million since they left the White House, capitalizing on the world's interest in the former first couple and lucrative business ventures. |
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BBC News |
4:33pm PDT |
Second night in hospital for duke |
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Summary: The Duke of Edinburgh spends a second night in hospital with a chest infection. |
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Yahoo News |
4:27pm PDT |
Texas agencies probe abuse at polygamist sect
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas authorities said on Friday
that they were investigating a potential child-abuse case at a
ranch operated by followers of a breakaway Mormon sect linked
to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. |
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BBC News |
4:23pm PDT |
Hundreds to march on council cuts |
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Summary: A march through Aberdeen in the face of millions of pounds in council cutbacks takes place on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:21pm PDT |
Haitians riot over prices, attack U.N. peacekeepers
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Protesters angry over rising living costs
rioted in the southwestern Haitian town of Les Cayes, burning
shops, shooting at peacekeepers and looting containers in a
U.N. compound, the United Nations said in a statement on
Friday. |
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BBC News |
4:08pm PDT |
Doctor hour cuts 'will harm care' |
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Summary: Patient care will suffer when junior doctors' hours are cut to conform with the European Working Time Directive, a leading medic warns. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Shannon case women freed on bail |
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Summary: Police arrest two members of Shannon Matthews' family over the West Yorkshire schoolgirl's alleged abduction. |
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Unfinished work |
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Summary: Demons of race still stalk US 40 years after King's death |
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Cnn.com |
3:47pm PDT |
Lovestruck guard helped inmates escape |
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Today's C |
3:42pm PDT |
Prophetic Dreams? |
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Today's C |
3:42pm PDT |
Jars of Kid Lit |
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Today's C |
3:42pm PDT |
"Baby, I Wouldn't Trade You for a Sow and Seven Pigs." |
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Summary: My husband's idea of romance didn't exactly sweep me off my feet.
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Yahoo News |
3:34pm PDT |
Clintons made $109 million since 2000, returns show
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Hillary Clinton and her
husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made $109 million
since leaving the White House, including $51 million in speech
income for Bill Clinton, according to eight years of tax
records released on Frida |
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Yahoo News |
3:29pm PDT |
U.S. extends Blackwater's Baghdad work for one year
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. private security firm
Blackwater's deal to protect American diplomats in Baghdad will
be extended for a year while the FBI investigates a 2007
incident in which the company's guards are accused of killing
17 Iraqis, the State Department |
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Cnn.com |
3:29pm PDT |
What job losses could mean to you |
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Summary: You may think your job is safe. But you still may not be spared the pain resulting from the weak labor market. So far this year, nearly a quarter-million jobs have vanished. CNNMoney.com looks at how a deteriorating job market could impact you -- and your |
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BBC News |
3:18pm PDT |
Dirty War adoption couple jailed |
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Summary: An Argentine couple are jailed for illegally adopting a baby born 30 years ago to parents killed during the Dirty War. |
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Yahoo News |
3:16pm PDT |
Sex and financial risk linked in brain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were |
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Yahoo News |
3:13pm PDT |
Chris Rock says he hired indicted sleuth
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Chris Rock testified at a private eye's racketeering trial Friday that he hired the man to investigate a model who demanded money after claiming she was pregnant with his baby, and who later accused him of sexual assault. |
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Cnn.com |
3:12pm PDT |
Chris Rock testifies at Hollywood wiretap trial |
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Yahoo News |
3:06pm PDT |
State extends Blackwater's deal a year
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The State Department says it will renew Blackwater USA's license to protect diplomats in Baghdad for one year, but a final decision about whether the private security company will keep the job is pending. |
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Yahoo News |
2:58pm PDT |
Tigers lose 8-5 to ChiSox to drop to 0-4
(AP)
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Summary: AP - J.R. Towles did a handstand after he was hit by a pitch in the second inning, then homered in the fourth. Miguel Tejada added a go-ahead triple in the eighth inning as the Houston Astros beat the Cubs 4-3 Friday and sent Chicago to its third loss in |
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Yahoo News |
2:58pm PDT |
Bill Richardson plans Venezuela trip on hostages
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Seasoned negotiator Bill Richardson
plans to visit Venezuela next month to discuss the fate of
three American hostages held by rebels in Colombia, said a U.S.
official on Friday. |
