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Yahoo News |
9:08pm PDT |
Mid-size cars make strides in safety
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Several mid-size cars have made strides in protecting motorists in side crashes through standard air bags and improved designs, the insurance industry reports. |
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BBC News |
9:04pm PDT |
Olympics to 'rebound from crisis' |
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Summary: The head of the Olympic committee says the Games will recover from "crisis" after days of anti-Chinese protests. |
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BBC News |
8:46pm PDT |
Nepal votes in landmark elections |
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Summary: Nepal begins voting in nationwide elections mired by violence that has claimed eight lives. |
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Yahoo News |
8:35pm PDT |
Documents: Sect teens made to have sex
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Young teenage girls at a polygamist compound in West Texas were required to have sex in a soaring white temple after they were married in sect-recognized unions, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
8:30pm PDT |
Obama calls for Beijing boycott |
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Summary: Barack Obama calls on US president to consider boycott of Beijing Olympics after the torch's US leg. |
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Yahoo News |
8:14pm PDT |
Teens made to have sex after sect-unions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Young teenage girls at a polygamist compound in West Texas were required to have sex in a soaring white temple after they were married in sect-recognized unions, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:14pm PDT |
News Corp, Microsoft discuss joint Yahoo bid: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Microsoft Corp
and News Corp (NWSa.N) are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo
Inc that would add MySpace to a proposed
Microsoft-Yahoo combination, newspapers reported on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:12pm PDT |
John raises $2.5 million for Clinton
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Experience is central to Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, and Wednesday night she tapped one of pop music's most venerable rockers to help fill her campaign coffers with $2.5 million. Elton John, who has sold records and filled are |
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Yahoo News |
8:11pm PDT |
Feds: Man threatens black celebrities
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An Ohio man has been indicted on charges that he threatened to blow up the U.S. Supreme Court and attack black men, including a justice on the court, according to an indictment filed Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:02pm PDT |
Tigers defeat Red Sox 7-2 for first win
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Tigers finally showed the offense that earned them preseason raves — and ended their winless start. Detroit beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 Wednesday night after scoring just 15 runs in losing its first seven games. Marcus Thames and Carlos Guillen h |
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BBC News |
7:59pm PDT |
Burma migrants suffocate in lorry |
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Summary: More than 50 Burmese illegal migrants suffocate in the back of a lorry taking them into Thailand, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
7:48pm PDT |
AMR cancels 1,094 flights for inspections
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - American Airlines canceled 1,094
flights, or nearly half its schedule, on Wednesday to reinspect
aircraft, a disruption that affected about 100,000 passengers
and triggered chaos at the busiest U.S. airports. |
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Yahoo News |
7:42pm PDT |
Olympic torch evades protesters and supporters alike
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Olympic torch's only stop in
North America turned into a game of hide and seek on Wednesday
as San Francisco abruptly changed the route, angering both
China supporters and protesters. |
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BBC News |
7:23pm PDT |
Nepal prepares to go to the polls |
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Summary: Nepal prepares to vote in nationwide elections mired by violence that has claimed eight lives. |
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Cnn.com |
7:23pm PDT |
Wedding bed found in temple, affidavit says |
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Summary: Frightened and perhaps pregnant for the second time in a year, the 16-year-old mother whispered into a borrowed cell phone, defying everything she'd been taught by making contact with the outside world. She said she wanted out of a polygamous compound in |
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Cnn.com |
7:12pm PDT |
54 migrants suffocate in freezer truck |
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Summary: The bodies of 54 migrant workers from Burma were found Wednesday suffocated in a freezer on the back of a truck, police said.
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Yahoo News |
7:08pm PDT |
Rangers top Devils 4-1, take series lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scott Gomez showed the New Jersey Devils just what they let get away. In his first playoff game against the team he grew up with, Gomez assisted on three of the New York Rangers' goals in a 4-1 playoff-opening win over the Devils on Wednesday night. |
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Yahoo News |
7:03pm PDT |
Olympic torch dodges S.F. protesters
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Olympic torch played hide and seek with thousands of demonstrators and spectators crowding the city's waterfront Wednesday before being spirited away without even a formal goodbye on its symbolic stop in the United States. |
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BBC News |
7:00pm PDT |
S Asian crises blamed on leaders |
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Summary: Oxfam says government failures can turn South Asia's natural disasters into humanitarian crises. |
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Yahoo News |
6:56pm PDT |
Yahoo, Time Warner closing in on AOL deal: source
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Yahoo Inc and Time
Warner Inc are "closing in" on a deal where Yahoo would
merge with Time Warner's AOL Internet unit, brushing aside
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, a source familiar with the talks
said on Wednesday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:51pm PDT |
54 Myanmar migrants die in seafood container: Thai police
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - At least 54 Myanmar migrants suffocated to death in a cold storage container as they were being smuggled into Thailand to look for work, Thai police said Thursday, |
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Cnn.com |
6:47pm PDT |
Iraq oil surplus fuels criticism in hearings |
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Summary: With U.S. gasoline prices setting records, opponents of the war in Iraq have raised a new complaint this week: The budget windfall that skyrocketing oil prices has given Baghdad.
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Yahoo News |
6:40pm PDT |
Army under stress from long wars
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. soldiers are committing suicide at record levels, young officers are abandoning their military careers, and the heavy use of forces in Iraq has made it harder for the military to fight conflicts that could arise elsewhere. |
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BBC News |
6:36pm PDT |
Moyles, Brand up for radio awards |
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Summary: Radio 1 star Chris Moyles and comedian Russell Brand are nominated for this year's radio industry Sony awards. |
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BBC News |
6:36pm PDT |
Radio 'Oscars' nominees revealed |
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Summary: Radio 1 star Chris Moyles and comedian Russell Brand are nominated for this year's radio industry Sony awards. |
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Yahoo News |
6:26pm PDT |
Texas authorities finish search of ranch
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Texas authorities say they have completed their search of a West Texas compound founded by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. State troopers, Texas Rangers and other authorities completed their search Wednesday. They've been at the remote ranch in Eldor |
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Cnn.com |
6:26pm PDT |
Route changes, scuffles mark Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Heavy security surrounded runners taking part in the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco today, as the threat of violent protests prompted officials to make unannounced changes to the route and cancel a closing ceremony where thousands of people had gath |
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Cnn.com |
6:26pm PDT |
Detours, scuffles mark Olympic torch relay |
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Summary: Heavy security surrounded runners taking part in the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco today, as the threat of violent protests prompted officials to make unannounced changes to the route and cancel a closing ceremony where thousands of people had gath |
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Cnn.com |
6:18pm PDT |
Firefighters carry elderly down ladders |
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Summary: Lillian Wolfson shuffles slowly, holding on to her walker, as smoke still flutters in the distance from the apartment building she evacuated Wednesday morning.
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Cnn.com |
6:11pm PDT |
Couric, CBS downplay report of early split |
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Summary: CBS News and "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric are downplaying a Wall Street Journal report that Couric plans to leave the network long before her contract expires in 2011.
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