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BBC News |
2:19pm PDT |
Argentine torch relay unhindered |
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Summary: Protesters target the latest leg of the Olympic torch's relay in Argentina, but do not hinder its progress. |
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BBC News |
2:15pm PDT |
Man charged after death of baby |
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Summary: A man has been charged in connection with the death of a baby in hospital in Edinburgh last year, police say. |
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Yahoo News |
2:07pm PDT |
CORRECTED: No signs of Qaeda at US-Mexican border
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Authorities have seen no signs of al
Qaeda trying to insert operatives into the United States from
Mexico, but the militant group has considered doing so, a U.S.
intelligence official said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
2:02pm PDT |
Polygamist sect encouraged fear
(AP)
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Summary: AP - All their lives, the girls in the polygamist sect in the West Texas desert were told that the outside world was hostile and immoral, and that venturing beyond the brilliant white limestone walls of their compound would consign them to eternal damnati |
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Yahoo News |
2:02pm PDT |
IOC chief says Olympics on track, despite protests
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge insisted Friday that the Beijing Games were on track as he sought to draw a line under a week overshadowed by worldwide protests linked to Tibet. |
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Cnn.com |
2:00pm PDT |
Bush, Cheney release tax returns |
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Summary: President and Mrs. George W. Bush reported taxable income of $719, 274 for the tax year 2007 and paid $221,635 in federal income taxes, the White House said Friday.
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Yahoo News |
1:46pm PDT |
Gov't seeks help with vaccine questions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The government began an unprecedented effort Friday to give vaccine critics a say in shaping how the nation researches safety questions surrounding immunizations. |
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Yahoo News |
1:42pm PDT |
American quickens pace of work on MD-80s
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - American Airlines accelerated
inspections and related work on Friday to get its MD-80 planes
back in service after a nightmare week for the carrier that saw
it cancel 3,000 flights over a recurring safety issue,
affecting 300,000 travelers. |
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Yahoo News |
1:40pm PDT |
Gates: Iran boosts support for militias
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Iranian support for militias in Iraq has grown, top U.S. defense leaders said Friday, asserting that recent battles in Basra gave the Iraqis an eye-opening view of Iran's increased negative role there. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the U.S. wil |
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Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
Top aide to al-Sadr assassinated in Iraq
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gunmen assassinated a top aide of anti-American leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday, sharpening a Shiite power struggle that has already triggered fighting between the cleric's followers and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government. |
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Yahoo News |
1:29pm PDT |
College students tour Nevada brothel
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nicki Amouri hands her camera to a friend, throws her arm over another and smiles wide as she leans in for a shot with the monument her class came to visit. It's a typical field trip memento — except that Amouri is in a brothel. The monument is a flu |
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Yahoo News |
1:27pm PDT |
Clinton misstates wife's Bosnia tale
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife's tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife's mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing th |
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Yahoo News |
1:26pm PDT |
Bush was upbeat on Iraq even when fearing failure
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush said
on Friday he was worried in 2006 that the United States would
fail in Iraq but stated publicly at the time that it was
winning because he needed to maintain morale. |
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Yahoo News |
1:25pm PDT |
Stocks fall sharply following GE results
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wall Street stumbled Friday after a disappointing first-quarter report from General Electric Co. surprised the market and stoked concern about the health of both corporate profits and the wider economy. The major indexes fell more than 2 percent, wit |
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Yahoo News |
1:16pm PDT |
Mills explains divorce court outburst
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Heather Mills says she snapped when she poured a jug of water over the head of ex-husband Paul McCartney's lawyer during their bitter divorce battle. Mills was awarded a $48.6 million settlement from McCartney last month. They had been married for fo |
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Yahoo News |
12:51pm PDT |
Bushes pay taxes on $923,807 income
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The federal tax bill for President Bush and his wife: $221,635. |
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Key Sadrist official slain
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Gunmen assassinated a top aide of anti-American leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday, sharpening a Shiite power struggle that has already triggered fighting between the cleric's followers and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government. |
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Yahoo News |
12:31pm PDT |
Congress study: Housing aid wouldn't help economy
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. lawmakers' plans to aid
troubled homeowners would likely help prevent many foreclosures
but wouldn't stop the freefall in home prices or stabilize the
economy, a congressional report said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:17pm PDT |
Cyanide document found at Texas compound
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Authorities searching the compound of a polygamist sect in West Texas found a "cyanide poisoning document" among the dozens of items it seized during a weeklong search. |
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Yahoo News |
12:16pm PDT |
No signs of Qaeda at U.S.-Mexican border: official
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Authorities have seen no signs of al
Qaeda trying to insert operatives into the United States from
Mexico, but the militant group has considered doing so, a U.S.
intelligence official said on Friday. |
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ChristianPost |
12:12pm PDT |
Obama Promises to 'Usher' Gay Employment Bill |
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Summary: Leading Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised to 'usher' the passage of a non-discriminatory employment bill benefiting homosexuals if he was elected president, he said in a recent interview with a well-known gay ... |
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Yahoo News |
12:06pm PDT |
Bush paid $221,635 in taxes for 2007
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush and his wife paid $221,635 in federal taxes on an adjusted gross income of $923,807 for the year 2007. |
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Cnn.com |
12:02pm PDT |
Captured Marine expected back in U.S. |
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Summary: Authorities in North Carolina are waiting for extradition proceedings to return a fugitive Marine, captured in Mexico, to face murder charges. U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean is a suspect in the killing of a 20-year-old pregnant Marine. He was captured Thu |
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BBC News |
12:00pm PDT |
Appeal for missing beauty queen |
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Summary: A 17-year-old beauty queen, who was diagnosed with a facial condition, goes missing from her home, police say. |
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Cnn.com |
11:37am PDT |
Mom saw warning signs of massacre plans |
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Summary: Two and half years ago, Elaine Sonnen found out her son, Richard, was planning a Columbine-style attack at his high school. It would have been payback for classmates who Richard says bullied him. "I always wanted to strangle them," he said. But this attac |
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Yahoo News |
11:37am PDT |
Bush paid $221,635 in 2007 federal tax: White House
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush and
first lady Laura Bush reported taxable income of $719,274 for
2007 and paid $221,635 in federal income tax, the White House
said on Friday. |
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Cnn.com |
11:29am PDT |
Americans keeping travel plans, for now |
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Summary: Only time will tell whether the recent spate of airline cancellations will stretch into peak travel season, but Americans won't be easily deterred from their summer travel plans, experts say.
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BBC News |
11:28am PDT |
Darling calls for economic action |
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Summary: Alistair Darling calls for the G7 to act on the credit squeeze, which he compares with the Great Depression. |
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Cnn.com |
11:22am PDT |
Baseball players, owners OK new drug pact |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
11:10am PDT |
Protests meet Olympic torch in Argentina
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Olympic torch is burning in Buenos Aires, its first stop since protests marred the San Francisco leg of its world tour. |
