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Cnn.com |
6:57am PDT |
7-bedroom homes empty; foreclosures up 178% |
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Summary: Youngstown, Ohio, tried it all. A blimp factory was going to resurrect the dying hamlet. That dream was just hot air. Then it hung its hopes on a defense facility employing 5,000. But that never came either. There's an exodus of citizens and in the past y |
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BBC News |
6:55am PDT |
Gang 'tortured man in two cities' |
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Summary: A man was tortured by a drug gang and a "hired heavy" at houses in Newport and London, a murder trial hears. |
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Cnn.com |
6:43am PDT |
When your spouse is a slob |
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Summary: When Susie Toth's boyfriend told her a few months after she moved in that they "needed to talk," she was crestfallen.
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Cnn.com |
6:32am PDT |
Kidnapped journalist freed after 2 months |
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Summary: A journalist kidnapped in February in the southern Iraqi city of Basra was freed Monday in an Iraqi army operation, Iraq's Defense Ministry said.
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Cnn.com |
6:30am PDT |
Zimbabwe election results remain hidden |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's High Court was expected to rule Monday whether the government must reveal the results of the presidential election held more than two weeks ago.
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Yahoo News |
6:23am PDT |
Wachovia posts surprise loss, eyes $7 billion capital
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Wachovia Corp posted a
surprising first-quarter loss on Monday as credit problems from
mortgages and other debt soared, prompting the bank to lower
its dividend, raise $7 billion in capital and cut jobs. |
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Yahoo News |
6:22am PDT |
Blockbuster bids $1B for Circuit City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Blockbuster Inc. said Monday it will take an unsolicited $1 billion-plus bid for Circuit City Stores Inc. directly to shareholders of the nation's second biggest consumer electronics chain, saying the struggling retailer has not responded to repeated |
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BBC News |
6:18am PDT |
Marathon man |
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Summary: Buster says he's 101. How can you prove your age? |
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Yahoo News |
6:16am PDT |
Zimbabwe court rejects opposition demand for poll result
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The Zimbabwe high court on Monday rejected an opposition bid to force the release of presidential election results in a judgment that could plunge the country into a general strike. |
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Exit polls place Berlusconi ahead |
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Summary: Veteran centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has a narrow lead in Italy's general election, exit polls suggest. |
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BBC News |
6:11am PDT |
British journalist freed in Iraq |
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Summary: A British journalist who had been taken hostage describes the moment he was freed by forces in Iraq. |
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Yahoo News |
6:09am PDT |
Afghans and Pakistanis "squeezing" Taliban and al Qaeda
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on the
Afghan-Pakistani border are increasingly facing pressure on two
fronts and they can be squeezed with more coordination between
the neighbors, a U.S. official said on Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:02am PDT |
March retail sales unexpectedly rise 0.2 pct
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. retail sales unexpectedly rose
0.2 percent in March, pushed up by a jump in gasoline sales, a
government report released on Monday showed. |
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Yahoo News |
6:01am PDT |
British journalist rescued in Basra
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A kidnapped British journalist was rescued by Iraqi troops on Monday after two months in captivity in the southern city of Basra, the Iraqi military said. |
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BBC News |
6:01am PDT |
Zimbabwe poll petition rejected |
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Summary: Zimbabwe's High Court rejects an opposition legal bid to force the release of the presidential election results. |
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Cnn.com |
5:57am PDT |
Kidnapped journalist released in Iraq |
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Summary: Soldiers discovered more than two dozen decomposed bodies buried at a site north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Monday.
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BBC News |
5:48am PDT |
Body in house killer dies in jail |
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Summary: A man who kiilled his partner and left her body for three days dies less than a year into a life jail term. |
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BBC News |
5:46am PDT |
7/7 friends 'made tourism calls' |
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Summary: Two men accused of helping the 7 July bombers made calls to tourist bodies on a reconnaissance mission, a court hears. |
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BBC News |
5:40am PDT |
Brown says economy is sole focus |
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Summary: Gordon Brown says keeping the economy on track is Labour's "sole focus" as the Tories attack his record. |
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Yahoo News |
5:34am PDT |
Israel snubs Carter and declines security help
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israel's secret service has declined
to assist U.S. agents guarding former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter during a visit in which Israeli leaders have shunned
him, U.S. sources close to the matter said on Monday. |
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ChristianToday |
5:27am PDT |
Freed British reporter says Iraq troops stormed |
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Summary: A British journalist who was freed on Monday after being held by kidnappers in the southern city of Basra for two months said Iraqi forces had raided the house where he was held and overwhelmed his captors |
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ChristianPost |
5:25am PDT |
The Gospel at Gunpoint |
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Summary: Two weeks ago, I shared with you the crisis facing this nation’s criminal justice system. With half-a-million prisoners being released each year—two-thirds of them re-offending, 50 percent of them being re-incarcerated—we are discovering that we simply mu |
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ChristianToday |
5:24am PDT |
EU urges Macedonia to press on with reforms |
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Summary: The European Union called on Monday for the early formation of a new Macedonian government to complete reforms needed for EU membership after the weekend collapse of the ruling coalition |
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ChristianToday |
5:24am PDT |
EU backs plan to clean up air cut lung disease |
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Summary: The European Union approved a plan on Monday to clean up air quality in the bloc setting limits for the first time on fine particles that cut eight months off the life of the average European citizen |
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BBC News |
5:23am PDT |
French push for EU food response |
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Summary: France calls for an EU initiative on food security, amid alarm about unrest linked to rising prices. |
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ChristianToday |
5:22am PDT |
Iraqi forces say free kidnapped UK journalist |
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Summary: Iraqi forces freed on Monday British journalist Richard Butler who was kidnapped in the southern city of Basra two months ago Defence Ministry spokesman MajorGeneral Mohammed alAskary said |
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ChristianToday |
5:21am PDT |
Boris Johnsons poll lead cut in half |
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Summary: Conservative Boris Johnson has seen his lead over Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral race cut in half in the last week according to a poll on Monday |
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CrossMap |
5:21am PDT |
Have You Encouraged Jesus Today |
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Summary: I believe when Jesus was weary and sat on the well that day that He was not only weary from His journey.. |
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BBC News |
5:20am PDT |
Rail crossing crash driver jailed |
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Summary: A teenager who accelerated at a level crossing before hitting a train and killing his passengers is jailed. |
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Yahoo News |
5:19am PDT |
Blockbuster bids for Circuit City
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Blockbuster Inc. said Monday it will take an unsolicited $1 billion-plus bid for Circuit City Stores Inc. directly to the consumer electronics chain's shareholders, saying Circuit City has not responded to repeated offers. |
