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Yahoo News |
6:54am PDT |
Bush to name SBA's Preston as housing secretary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush on Friday
plans to nominate Steve Preston to become the head of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has been
trying to grapple with the imploding housing market. |
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Yahoo News |
6:50am PDT |
Yale: Student's artwork purporting to show abortion a hoax
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Yale University art student's claim that she induced repeated abortions on herself and used the blood for her senior project is false, school officials said after her account was published in the student newspaper. |
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Cnn.com |
6:49am PDT |
Illinois earthquake sways buildings, shuts airport |
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Summary: People as far away as Tennessee, Michigan and Iowa felt a magnitude-5.2 earthquake, centered in southern Illinois Friday morning. The last time a temblor that strong jolted the Midwest it was 1968.
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BBC News |
6:14am PDT |
Three jailed for father's murder |
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Summary: Two men and a teenager are jailed for life for kicking and stamping a man to death during a burglary attempt. |
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Yahoo News |
6:10am PDT |
IAEA to press arms issue in Iran talks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's top
investigator will launch talks in Tehran on Monday to press for
Iranian answers to Western intelligence alleging that Iran
covertly studied how to devise atomic bombs. |
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Yahoo News |
6:07am PDT |
Magnitude 5.2 quake rattles Midwest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake centered in
southeast Illinois startled residents in several central U.S.
states before dawn on Friday, but media reports indicated there
were no injuries and only minor damage. |
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Yahoo News |
6:04am PDT |
Carter meets Assad in Syria
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Jimmy Carter met Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad on Friday, beginning a round of talks at which
the former U.S. president is expected to raise the case of a
detained Israeli soldier. |
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Yahoo News |
6:02am PDT |
Citigroup reports $5.1 billion loss on hefty write-downs
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Citigroup Inc. lost $5.1 billion during the first quarter and will eliminate about 9,000 more jobs, as poor bets on mortgages and leveraged loans lopped billions of dollars from its investment portfolio. |
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Yahoo News |
5:54am PDT |
5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Residents across the Midwest were awakened Thursday by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake that rattled skyscrapers in Chicago's Loop and homes in Cincinnati but appeared to cause no major injuries or damage. |
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Cnn.com |
5:49am PDT |
"I couldn't just cross my arms and turn away" |
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Summary: El Paso native Maria Ruiz knows firsthand how different life can be a mere 30-minute drive south of her Texas home.
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Cnn.com |
5:49am PDT |
'I couldn't just cross my arms and turn away' |
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Summary: El Paso native Maria Ruiz knows firsthand how different life can be a mere 30-minute drive south of her Texas home.
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Yahoo News |
5:40am PDT |
U.S. to televise Guantanamo trials to 9-11 families
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S.
military will televise the Guantanamo trial of accused
September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other
suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch
on the U.S. mainland. |
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BBC News |
5:39am PDT |
Veteran Labour MP Dunwoody dies |
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Summary: Tributes flood in for Labour MP Gwyneth Dunwoody - the longest-serving female MP - who has died aged 77. |
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ChristianPost |
5:36am PDT |
Pope Meets with Victims of Sex Abuse by Clergy, Apologizes |
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Summary: For 25 remarkable minutes, the shepherd of the world's 1 billion Catholics met with a handful of victims in the worst scandal to ever tarnish the U.S. ... |
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Cnn.com |
5:34am PDT |
Carter presses on with Hamas amid criticism |
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Summary: The Israeli and U.S. governments have condemned former President Carter's series of meetings this week with top officials of Hamas, which they consider to be a terrorist organization.
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BBC News |
5:33am PDT |
EU push to widen US visa waiver |
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Summary: The European Commission is to negotiate terms for visa-free travel to the US for all EU states. |
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ChristianPost |
5:31am PDT |
France Unable to Save Crumbling Churches |
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Summary: The dilemma of what to do with churches that have fallen out of favor — and into disrepair — is facing towns and villages across France and other European ... |
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Yahoo News |
5:31am PDT |
Mugabe rounds on critics, silent on poll outcome
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe came out fighting on Friday in his first major speech since disputed polls, fending off criticism over his rights record and accusing Britain of stirring up unrest. |
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BBC News |
5:28am PDT |
RBS shareholders to be asked for cash |
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Summary: Royal Bank of Scotland is set to seek £10bn from its shareholders in a rights issue to strengthen its finances. |
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Yahoo News |
5:27am PDT |
Magnitude 5.2 quake rattles Midwest: USGS
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake rattled
eastern Illinois before dawn on Friday, the U.S. Geological
Survey said, and television reports showed some minor damage. |
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BBC News |
5:19am PDT |
Something foul in the air? Pong over England dubbed 'Euro-whiff' |
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Summary: The Met Office says the whiffy air over England is likely to be agricultural or industrial smells drifting across the Channel. |
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Cnn.com |
5:10am PDT |
Blog brings human face to big-city murder |
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Summary: There are two or three homicides each day in Los Angeles County. Most victims died anonymously until Jill Leovy and her blog, The Homicide Report, came along to challenge traditional methods of crime reporting. In its first year, the blog documented the l |
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BBC News |
4:55am PDT |
Paypal to block 'unsafe browsers' |
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Summary: Paypal says it will block "unsafe browsers" as part of wider anti-phishing efforts. |
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Yahoo News |
4:50am PDT |
5.4 earthquake rocks Illinois; felt 450 miles away
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A 5.4-magnitude earthquake that appeared to rival the strongest recorded in the region rocked people up to 450 miles away early Friday, surprising residents unaccustomed to such a powerful Midwest temblor. |
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BBC News |
4:45am PDT |
Talking Shop |
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Summary: Gavin and Stacey's James Corden on being a sex symbol |
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Yahoo News |
4:40am PDT |
Pope champions human rights in UN address
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Pope Benedict XVI turned to diplomacy Friday with a scheduled speech at the United Nations to champion human rights, as the highlight of a US visit marked so far by his unprecedented attention to the pedophile priest scandal. |
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BBC News |
4:37am PDT |
Ashton 'will take new RFU role' |
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Summary: Brian Ashton will take up a new role as head coach of the National Academy, according to RFU chief Francis Baron. |
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BBC News |
4:37am PDT |
Ashton 'will take new RFU post' |
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Summary: Brian Ashton will take up a new job as head coach of the National Academy, according to RFU chief Francis Baron. |
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BBC News |
4:37am PDT |
Ashton 'will take new RFU role' |
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Summary: Brian Ashton will take up a new job as head coach of the National Academy, according to RFU chief Francis Baron. |
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Yahoo News |
4:36am PDT |
Mugabe brushes off rights record criticism
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - President Robert Mugabe brushed off criticism Friday over his human rights record, saying that democracy had only been established in Zimbabwe after the departure of its colonial rulers. |
