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Cnn.com |
11:13am PDT |
Defense secretary chokes up among cadets |
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Summary: Defense Secretary Robert Gates' voice cracked with emotion Monday night as he wrapped up a lesson to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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Yahoo News |
11:13am PDT |
Jake Long signs with Dolphins, will be top pick in NFL draft
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michigan tackle Jake Long has signed a multiyear contract with the Miami Dolphins, who plan to select him with the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
11:12am PDT |
London summit tackles 'tsunami' of rising food prices
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The world faces a "silent tsunami" of soaring food prices and more must be done to help secure future supply, the UN food agency said Tuesday as experts gathered in London for a special summit on the problem. |
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Cnn.com |
11:11am PDT |
Clinton: 'I have to win' |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton today acknowledged her White House bid is on the line in Pennsylvania, as primary voters headed to the polls. "I have to win," Clinton told reporters. "And I'm going to do everything I can to win." A CNN "poll of polls" suggests Clint |
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Yahoo News |
11:10am PDT |
American arrested as nuclear spy for Israel
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. authorities arrested an
American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving secrets on
nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to
Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department said. |
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Yahoo News |
11:08am PDT |
Jake Long signs as top draft pick with Dolphins
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Michigan tackle Jake Long is the first pick in the NFL draft by the Miami Dolphins, who signed him to a multiyear contract four days before the start of the draft. |
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Yahoo News |
11:00am PDT |
Richie Sambora charged with DUI in Southern California
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors in Orange County, Calif., have charged Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora with two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. |
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Yahoo News |
10:59am PDT |
Clinton, Obama battle for 158 delegates as Pennsylvania votes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama collided Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, the last of the big-state contests in a Democratic presidential campaign growing more negative the longer it goes. |
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ChristianPost |
10:54am PDT |
Christians Find Alternatives to Pro-Gay 'Day of Silence' |
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Summary: This Friday, thousands of students across the nation will participate in what has become known as 'The Day of Silence' – a vow among students to remain silent throughout the day in recognition and protest of the perceived 'silence faced by lesbian, gay, b |
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BBC News |
10:48am PDT |
Galloway 'dazed' by ball attack |
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Summary: MP George Galloway is left "dazed" and bruised after being hit with a rubber stress ball while campaiging. |
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Cnn.com |
10:42am PDT |
Gas from corn ups food prices, expert says |
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Summary: Those battling global warming by promoting biofuels may unintentionally be adding to skyrocketing world food prices, creating what one expert calls "a silent tsunami" in developing nations.
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Yahoo News |
10:39am PDT |
FCC chief says no need for new regulation of the Internet
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday there's no need for new regulation of the Internet, saying his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent discrimination by Internet service providers. |
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BBC News |
10:39am PDT |
Strangled woman pregnant with son |
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Summary: A Chinese woman killed at her east Belfast home in June 1998, was 18 weeks pregnant with a son, a court hears. |
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Yahoo News |
10:38am PDT |
Bush: Now is not the time to renegotiate or cancel NAFTA
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush, replying to criticism from Democratic presidential candidates, said Tuesday that "now is not the time to renegotiate ... or walk away from" the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also denied the U.S. was in a recession, calling i |
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BBC News |
10:36am PDT |
Owner Hicks braves Anfield crowd |
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Summary: Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is at the club's Champions League semi-final, first-leg against Chelsea, despite fears of a hostile reception. |
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Yahoo News |
10:31am PDT |
Louisiana panel blocks anti-droopy pants bill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A state Senate panel rejected a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to wear one's pants too low, even as Cajun-country towns around Louisiana have been banning saggy pants from their streets. |
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Yahoo News |
10:20am PDT |
Pennsylvanians vote in Democratic primary
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton sought a convincing
win to keep her flickering White House hopes alive on Tuesday
as Pennsylvania Democrats chose between her and Barack Obama in
their presidential nominating contest. |
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BBC News |
10:13am PDT |
Homeowners to get 'mortgage help' |
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Summary: Homeowners will have enough support to ensure that their homes are not repossessed, the government says. |
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BBC News |
10:04am PDT |
Al-Qaeda accuses Iran of 9/11 lie |
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Summary: Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri says Iran is spreading lies that Israel, not his group, carried out the 9/11 attacks. |
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ChristianToday |
10:02am PDT |
Climate change can stoke Africa conflicts |
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Summary: Climate change in Africa could leave 250 million more people short of water by 2020 spurring conflicts and threatening stability on the worlds poorest continent the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner said on Tuesday
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ChristianToday |
10:01am PDT |
EU gives more food aid due to soaring world prices |
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Summary: The European Commission will give a further 11725 million euros 1856 million in food aid to lessen the impact of rising food prices on the worlds most vulnerable people it said on Tuesday The rise in basic food prices is a worldwide humanitarian disaster |
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ChristianToday |
10:01am PDT |
UK Fraud Office to appeal Saudi arms deal decision |
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Summary: Britains Serious Fraud Office is seeking permission to appeal against a London High Court ruling which sharply criticised the halting of a corruption investigation into a Saudi arms deal it announced on Tuesday
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ChristianToday |
9:59am PDT |
UK fails to extend wouldbe Talibans jail term |
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Summary: The British government has lost a bid to extend the unduly lenient jail term given to a London dentist for planning to fight for the Taliban and kill many British and US soldiers in Afghanistan
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ChristianToday |
9:58am PDT |
US Earth Day goes political and corporate |
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Summary: Google went green and so did dozens of comic strips while President George W Bush opted for a traditional treeplanting on Tuesday to mark Earth Day an environmental event that has become increasingly political and corporate
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CTI Music |
9:58am PDT |
What's in a Label?: 7Spin Music |
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Summary: Founder Peter Khosla explains how his company in small town Indiana is approaching the music business differently, while also keeping God at the center of what they do.
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CTI Music |
9:58am PDT |
New Beginnings |
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Summary: With a new record deal and the return of their original guitarist, P.O.D. is pumped about reconnecting with their fans through their music.
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ChristianToday |
9:58am PDT |
SAfrica honours US woman who forgave daughters killers |
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Summary: An American woman was awarded on Tuesday one of South Africas highest state honours for forgiving the men who stoned her daughter to death in the dying days of apartheid
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CTI Music |
9:58am PDT |
'Introducing' … Tenth Avenue North |
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Summary: As members of one of 2008's most buzzed about new bands, lead singer Mike Donehey and guitarist Jeff Owen share their creative philosophy in making music that matters.
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CTI Music |
9:58am PDT |
Living Legacies |
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Summary: Jimmy Carter, one of the founding members of The Blind Boys of Alabama, discusses their latest New Orleans-flavored album, and what keeps driving them to perform after seven decades.
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CTI News |
9:58am PDT |
Commentary: Is This Man Caspian? |
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Summary: Of all the characters in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, the title character of 'Prince Caspian' is most like the author, and the book is surprisingly autobiographical.
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