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Yahoo News |
3:23pm PDT |
400+ kids taken from polygamist compound
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Summary: AP - More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorities described Monday as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history. |
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ChristianToday |
3:22pm PDT |
Pope pays tribute to modern martyrs |
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Summary: Pope Benedict paid tribute on Monday to Catholics and other Christians who died for their faith in Nazi camps and Soviet gulags or who were killed in hate crimes |
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Yahoo News |
3:20pm PDT |
Hundreds flee fight in Shiite stronghold
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Summary: AP - Hundreds of people fled fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold Monday as U.S. and Iraqi forces increased pressure on anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who faces an ultimatum to either disband his Mahdi Army or give up politics. |
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ChristianToday |
3:18pm PDT |
BA pilots blast management over Heathrow chaos |
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Summary: British Airways pilots on Monday slammed the arrogance of the airlines board in its chaotic handling of Londons new Heathrow Terminal 5 and said they wanted change in how the company was managed |
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Cnn.com |
3:15pm PDT |
Police seek IDs of girls abused in sex tapes |
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Summary: Police in Hallandale Beach, Florida, are looking for at least two victims of underage sexual abuse seen in videotapes found in the apartment of a man arrested last week on child pornography charges.
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ChristianToday |
3:14pm PDT |
Relatives of N Irish bomb victims launch civil suit |
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Summary: Relatives of victims killed in Northern Irelands deadliest single attack launched a civil action on Monday against five people they believe were behind the 1998 Omagh bombing |
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ChristianToday |
3:09pm PDT |
Key scientist sure God particle will be found soon |
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Summary: British physicist Peter Higgs said on Monday it should soon be possible to prove the existence of a force which gives mass to the universe and makes life possible as he first argued 40 years ago |
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Cnn.com |
3:03pm PDT |
Polls: Democratic race tightens in key state |
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Summary: The Democratic presidential race is tightening in Pennsylvania ahead of its April 22 primary, according to a new CNN analysis of recent polls in the key campaign state.
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Yahoo News |
3:02pm PDT |
Zimbabwe opposition leader meets SAfrica's Zuma
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan
Tsvangirai met South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma on
Monday after appealing for help from outside powers to end the
28-year rule of President Robert Mugabe. |
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ChristianToday |
2:58pm PDT |
Two Lithuanians remanded over severed head |
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Summary: Two men were remanded in custody on Monday charged with the murder of a 35yearold Lithuanian woman whose severed head was found on a Scottish beach |
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BBC News |
2:55pm PDT |
Red-faced |
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Summary: Jailbreak is setback to Morocco's anti-terror profile |
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ChristianToday |
2:54pm PDT |
Iraqs Sadr to disband Mehdi Army if clerics order |
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Summary: Iraqi cleric Moqtada alSadr is ready to disband his militia if Shiite religious leaders demand it his aides said on Monday a surprising offer given renewed clashes between his fighters and security forces |
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ChristianToday |
2:52pm PDT |
McCain says Democrats make reckless Iraq promises |
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Summary: Republican presidential candidate John McCain accused his Democratic rivals on Monday of making reckless promises they cannot keep by pledging speedy US troop withdrawals from Iraq
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ChristianToday |
2:49pm PDT |
Kenya rivals trade blame over cabinet deadlock |
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Summary: Kenyas political rivals accused each other on Monday of doubledealing that delayed for a second day the formation of a powersharing cabinet crucial to ending months of postelection crisis |
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ChristianToday |
2:44pm PDT |
Nine convicted in Casablanca bombs escape jail |
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Summary: Nine radical Islamists jailed for their links to the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings that killed 45 people broke out of a Moroccan top security jail on Monday the Justice Ministry said
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Cnn.com |
2:40pm PDT |
Texas takes custody of 401 sect kids |
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Summary: Authorities on Monday are still questioning some of the more than 200 women and children taken from the compound of a polygamist sect.
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ChristianToday |
2:40pm PDT |
Protests snuff out Olympic torch in Paris |
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Summary: The Olympic torch relay descended into chaos in Paris on Monday with officials having to extinguish the flame and carry it by bus when proTibet protesters tried to seize it |
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ChristianToday |
2:36pm PDT |
Diana unlawfully killed inquest rules |
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Summary: Princess Diana and her lover Dodi alFayed were unlawfully killed by the grossly negligent driving of their chauffeur and paparazzi photographers pursuing them into a Paris road tunnel 10 years ago an inquest ruled |
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Cnn.com |
2:27pm PDT |
Phone company testing scent downloads |
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Yahoo News |
2:26pm PDT |
Postal workers attacked by wild turkeys
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Summary: AP - Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers in a West Side neighborhood near Owen Conservation Park are being pestered by wild turkeys this spring. Mara Wilhite, manager of the Hilldale Station Post Office, said she expected to deal with a |
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BBC News |
2:18pm PDT |
Shannon mother remains in custody |
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Summary: The mother of Shannon Matthews remains in custody after being arrested over the nine-year-old's disappearance. |
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Yahoo News |
2:09pm PDT |
McCain raises more than $15M in March
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Summary: AP - Sen. John McCain raised more than $15 million in March for his presidential campaign, a top performance for the likely Republican nominee that still falls far short of the cash gathered by rival Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinto |
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Yahoo News |
2:07pm PDT |
Olympic torch relay in chaos in Paris
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Summary: AP - Paris' Olympic torch relay descended into chaos Monday, with protesters scaling the Eiffel Tower, grabbing for the flame and forcing security officials to repeatedly snuff out the torch and transport it by bus past demonstrators yelling "Free Tibet!" |
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Cnn.com |
2:03pm PDT |
Babies' lack of sleep boosts obesity risk |
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Yahoo News |
1:57pm PDT |
Protests snuff out Olympic torch in Paris
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Olympic torch relay descended
into chaos in Paris on Monday with officials having to
extinguish the flame and carry it by bus when pro-Tibet
protesters tried to seize it. |
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Yahoo News |
1:54pm PDT |
400 kids taken from polygamist compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Authorities say more than 400 children have been taken from a polygamist compound and placed in state custody as they continue to investigate whether one of them had been an underage bride. |
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Yahoo News |
1:51pm PDT |
Thief breaks into 'ketchup' railcar
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Summary: AP - Police called to investigate a theft at a private railyard in Galesburg encountered a gory-looking scene when they climbed into the burglarized railcar, but it wasn't blood. It was ketchup — a lot of ketchup. |
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Yahoo News |
1:49pm PDT |
Jury says driver, paparazzi killed Diana
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Summary: AP - A coroner's jury returned the most serious verdict within its power Monday, ruling that Princess Diana and her boyfriend were unlawfully killed because their driver and pursuing paparazzi were reckless — behavior tantamount to manslaughter. |
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Cnn.com |
1:48pm PDT |
McCain: No signs Rice wants on ticket as VP |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain said Sunday he hasn't seen signals Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is interested in running as vice president.
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Yahoo News |
1:39pm PDT |
Babies' sleep tied to childhood obesity
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Summary: AP - When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. And when babies sleep less, they may gain too much weight. A new Harvard study finds that babies and toddlers who sleep fewer than 12 hours daily are at greater risk for being overweight in preschool, startl |
