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5:08pm PDT |
Actor Wesley Snipes gets 3 years in tax case |
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Summary: Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced today to three years in prison for three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns -- the maximum requested by prosecutors. Snipes' attorneys said they will appeal. The actor, who showed little reaction, gave a lo |
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BBC News |
5:08pm PDT |
Microsoft sees slide in profits |
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Summary: Microsoft sees third quarter profits decline, hit by lower demand, but the results beat forecasts. |
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Yahoo News |
5:00pm PDT |
McCain hits Obama on diplomacy over North Korea
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential candidate John
McCain challenged Democrat Barack Obama's approach to diplomacy
on Thursday, saying U.S. charges that North Korea gave nuclear
assistance to Syria showed the folly of unconditional talks
with foreign ad |
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4:57pm PDT |
Winehouse makes cash splash in young music millionaires list |
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Summary: Winehouse makes cash splash in young music millionaires list |
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4:48pm PDT |
Why Muslims Convert to Christianity |
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Summary: A few days ago, Fox News ran a grim special titled “Jihad USA: Confronting the Threat of Homegrown Terror.” It was a warning of the continuing danger of ... |
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Yahoo News |
4:46pm PDT |
Judge sentences Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges Thursday, a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45pm PDT |
Bush assures Abbas on statehood
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. President George W. Bush
assured Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that
Palestinian statehood remained a high priority in his final 10
months in office despite faltering peace talks. |
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Cnn.com |
4:44pm PDT |
Custom wetsuit protects patchy penguin |
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Yahoo News |
4:37pm PDT |
U.S. says North Korea gave Syria nuclear assistance
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States on Thursday
released photographs of what it said was a Syrian nuclear
reactor built with North Korean help, in an effort to pressure
Pyongyang to fully disclose its nuclear activities. |
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Yahoo News |
4:31pm PDT |
Bush administration opposes Democrats' housing rescue plan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A top housing official said Thursday that the Bush administration "strongly opposes" Democrats' housing rescue package, calling it a bailout that would expose taxpayers to excessive risk. |
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Yahoo News |
4:30pm PDT |
Penguin's wetsuit puts him back in the swim of things
(AP)
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Summary: AP - What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the |
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BBC News |
4:30pm PDT |
20% of parents 'block cancer jab' |
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Summary: A new vaccine for young girls to prevent cervical cancer later in life was rejected by 20% of parents during a trial. |
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4:27pm PDT |
Anti-racist rock |
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Summary: Can music change things or should it avoid politics? |
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Cnn.com |
4:23pm PDT |
McCain rips Bush administration on Katrina |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain on Thursday blasted the Bush administration and all levels of government for the failed response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
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BBC News |
4:18pm PDT |
Teachers consider their next move |
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Summary: The National Union of Teachers is taking stock after staging its first national strike in a generation. |
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Yahoo News |
4:14pm PDT |
Obama seeks union's help while Clinton promotes vets issues
(AP)
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Summary: AP - How does Sen. Barack Obama spend a day off in his hometown? By urging hundreds of union activists to back his presidential bid in the final Democratic primaries. |
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Cnn.com |
4:14pm PDT |
City awaits verdict in NYPD shooting case |
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Summary: Three New York Police Department detectives involved in the shooting death of an unarmed man in a 50-bullet barrage, hours before he was to be married, learn their fate Friday morning.
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BBC News |
4:03pm PDT |
Snipes imprisoned for three years |
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Summary: Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced by a US judge to three years in jail for tax offences. |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PDT |
Snipes jailed for tax offences |
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Summary: Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced by a US federal judge to three years in prison for tax offences. |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PDT |
Snipes sentenced to three years |
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Summary: Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced by a US federal judge to three years in jail for tax offences. |
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Cnn.com |
4:03pm PDT |
Search for balloon-stunt priest suspended |
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Cnn.com |
3:57pm PDT |
Sect challenges legality of raid |
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Summary: Authorities knew reports of alleged abuse at a polygamist sect's Texas ranch were questionable before they raided the compound, attorneys for the ranch's families said in court documents Thursday.
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Yahoo News |
3:48pm PDT |
US accuses NKorea of secretly aiding Syria nuclear work
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The United States accused North Korea on Thursday of helping Syria build a nuclear reactor, charging that the secret facility had a military purpose until Israel destroyed it in a September raid. |
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Yahoo News |
3:32pm PDT |
World food fears mount as rice prices hit record
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Concerns about food security
mounted on Thursday, as rice prices hit records in Asia and the
United Nations warned that staples for the world's hungry were
getting much more expensive. |
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BBC News |
3:31pm PDT |
Hamas offers truce in Gaza Strip |
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Summary: Palestinian group Hamas proposes a six-month truce in the Gaza Strip, with a possible extension to the West Bank. |
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Cnn.com |
3:27pm PDT |
Mugabe trying to steal election, says U.S. envoy |
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Summary: A U.S. envoy said today that the opposition leader in Zimbabwe defeated longtime President Robert Mugabe in that nation's recent elections. "We are certain that Morgan Tsvangirai won," said Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Fra |
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Yahoo News |
3:22pm PDT |
Texas court: State can take sect children to foster homes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dozens of mothers from a polygamist retreat were bused away from their children Thursday, their legal efforts to stay united rejected as Texas officials sort out their massive custody case. |
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Cnn.com |
3:17pm PDT |
Wesley Snipes gets 3 years in tax case |
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Summary: Actor Wesley Snipes faces up to three years in prison and a fine of $5 million when he is sentenced Thursday on federal tax evasion charges.
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Yahoo News |
3:16pm PDT |
U.S. says North Korea aided Syrian nuclear activities
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States has concluded that
North Korea helped Syria on a covert nuclear program before and
after Israel destroyed a suspected reactor in Syria last year,
according to a U.S. intelligence document. |
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Yahoo News |
3:15pm PDT |
Smithsonian to open massive new 'Ocean Hall' in September
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The least understood two-thirds of planet Earth — the oceans — are soon to get needed attention from the Smithsonian Institution. "The oceans are a global system that is essential to all life in Earth, including you," acting Smithsonian Secretary Cri |
