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BBC News |
7:35pm PDT |
Duke's condition to be assessed |
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Summary: Doctors are to assess Prince Philip's condition after he spent a third night in hospital with a chest infection. |
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Yahoo News |
7:22pm PDT |
Conflict escalates at polygamist retreat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sect leaders at a polygamist compound in West Texas refused Saturday to let authorities search a temple for a teenage girl whose report of abuse led to the raid, and authorities said they were preparing "for the worst." |
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Yahoo News |
7:01pm PDT |
American freezes nonflight hiring
(AP)
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Summary: AP - American Airlines has imposed a freeze on hiring management and support staffers as the nation's largest air carrier copes with high fuel costs and the slowing economy. |
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Cnn.com |
7:01pm PDT |
Standoff looms at polygamist ranch |
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Summary: Emergency vehicles were brought to a polygamist compound Saturday in case there is a "negative reaction" to a search there for more alleged victims of physical and sexual abuse, authorities said. Already, more than 180 people -- including 137 children -- |
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Cnn.com |
7:01pm PDT |
Authorities prepare for standoff with polygamists |
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Summary: Emergency vehicles were brought to a polygamist compound Saturday in case there is a "negative reaction" to a search there for more alleged victims of physical and sexual abuse, authorities said. Already, more than 180 people -- including 137 children -- |
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Yahoo News |
7:00pm PDT |
Zimbabwe ruling party, opposition locked in election battle
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe's opposition and ruling party remained locked Sunday in a battle of wills over the presidential election with Robert Mugabe showing no sign of relinquishing his grip on power. |
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Yahoo News |
6:40pm PDT |
Clintons' 109-million-dollar income under close scrutiny
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Tax returns released by former first couple Hillary and Bill Clinton revealed they earned 109 million dollars over eight years, and questions have been raised bout the sources of much of their wealth. |
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Yahoo News |
6:20pm PDT |
Mugabe asks for recount as election stalemate deepens
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe sunk deeper into political
stalemate on Sunday, with the opposition going to court to get
election results released and President Robert Mugabe's ruling
party asking for a delay and recount. |
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Cnn.com |
6:03pm PDT |
Beyonce, Jay-Z married? Party says yes |
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Yahoo News |
6:02pm PDT |
Texas removes 183 women and girls from sect ranch
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Texas officials investigating a
potential child abuse caSe said on Saturday 183 girls and women
had been removed from a ranch that is home to a breakaway
Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. |
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BBC News |
5:55pm PDT |
Ban on samurai swords becomes law |
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Summary: A law banning the sale and import of samurai swords has come into force. |
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BBC News |
5:54pm PDT |
Egypt braced for 'general strike' |
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Summary: Egyptian authorities warn they will take firm action against anyone taking part in a strike called on Sunday. |
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Yahoo News |
5:52pm PDT |
Standoff emerges at polygamist retreat
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Ambulances are being sent to a polygamist compound in West Texas as authorities prepare "for the worst" in a conflict with members of the compound. |
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Yahoo News |
5:48pm PDT |
Rose does it with flair, Memphis wins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - All Derrick Rose and Memphis were missing was a trapeze. |
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Yahoo News |
5:34pm PDT |
Zimbabwe's ruling party calls for election recount: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has
called for a recount in last week's presidential election,
saying there had been "errors and miscalculations" in the
counting, the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper said. |
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BBC News |
5:32pm PDT |
Homes evacuated amid flats fire |
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Summary: Residents are evacuated from their homes in Edinburgh after fire broke out at flats on a construction site. |
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BBC News |
5:18pm PDT |
New law targets corporate killing |
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Summary: A new corporate manslaughter law comes into force aimed at easing prosecution of negligent firms. |
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Theophiles |
5:11pm PDT |
Generation gap shapes American Catholics |
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Summary: In his visit this month to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI will find an American flock wrestling with what it means be Roman Catholic.
The younger generation considers religion important, but doesn't equate faith with going to church. Many lay peopl |
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Yahoo News |
5:03pm PDT |
Analysis: Iraqi PM wins rare support
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's faltering crackdown on Shiite militants has won the backing of Sunni Arab and Kurdish parties that fear both the powerful sectarian militias and the effects of failure on Iraq's fragile government. |
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Yahoo News |
5:01pm PDT |
Zimbabwe's ruling party asks for delay of election result
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's ruling party has asked
election officials to defer the release of results of the March
29 presidential election and conduct a recount and audit of all
its materials related to the poll, the state-run Sunday Mail
newspaper reported |
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BBC News |
4:57pm PDT |
Microsoft gives Yahoo three weeks |
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Summary: Microsoft gives Yahoo a three-week deadline to respond to its offer to buy out the internet company for $44.6bn (£22.3bn). |
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Yahoo News |
4:55pm PDT |
Looks like Jay-Z and Beyonce are married
(AP)
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Summary: AP - It appears that Jay-Z and Beyonce have finally tied the knot. |
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BBC News |
4:42pm PDT |
Burning question |
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Summary: Should athletes boycott the Olympic flame ceremony? |
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Yahoo News |
4:40pm PDT |
Russia has first post-Soviet baby boom
(AP)
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Summary: AP - When they decided to have their first child, Alexander Gorlov and Laila Simanova discovered that something new was afoot in post-Soviet Russia: a baby boom. |
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Cnn.com |
4:34pm PDT |
156-step burger wins Rube Goldberg contest |
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Yahoo News |
4:30pm PDT |
Obama tailors message to western voters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Democrat Barack Obama said Saturday he supports environmentally-sound ways to use coal and promised to appoint a high-level adviser on Indian issues if elected president. |
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Yahoo News |
4:20pm PDT |
White Sox rally for win over Tigers
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jim Thome hit an RBI double in the sixth inning for the White Sox's only hit off Dontrelle Willis, and Chicago beat the Detroit Tigers 5-3 Saturday. |
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BBC News |
4:12pm PDT |
Thousands flee floods in Brazil |
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Summary: Flooding in north-eastern Brazil kills at least 15 people and drives tens of thousands from their homes, officials say. |
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BBC News |
4:06pm PDT |
Marrow loss 'aids bone healing' |
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Summary: Removing the marrow from the heart of bones could make them stronger and help heal fractures, researchers suggest. |
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BBC News |
3:49pm PDT |
Castro foe family awarded $253m |
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Summary: A Miami jury awards nearly $253m to the children of a friend-turned-foe of Fidel Castro, who died in 1977. |
