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Yahoo News |
6:09pm PDT |
Star Jones lashes out at Barbara Walters about memoir
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Nearly two years after Star Jones left "The View" on rocky terms, the 46-year-old TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her. |
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Cnn.com |
6:05pm PDT |
Olympic torch nears top of Mount Everest |
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Summary: The Olympic flame is expected to reach the top of the world Wednesday night, carried to the summit of Mount Everest by climbers wearing oxygen masks to breathe in the thin air of the earth's highest point.
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Yahoo News |
5:33pm PDT |
U.S. and NATO battle on uneven Afghan patchwork
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Summary: Reuters - Last week U.S.
Captain Roger Hill led a patrol into the Jaldez valley, just
southwest of Kabul, and was immediately ambushed from three
sides by 50 Taliban fighters armed with rocket-propelled
grenades. |
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Cnn.com |
5:08pm PDT |
Envoy: Cyclone toll may top 100K |
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Summary: The situation in cyclone-devastated Myanmar is becoming "more and more horrendous" and the death toll in the nation's delta region alone could top 100,000, said Shari Villarosa, the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar.
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Yahoo News |
5:07pm PDT |
Obama picks up superdelegates; undecideds moving his way
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama's march toward the Democratic presidential nomination picked up support from four more superdelegates Wednesday, pushing him ever closer to victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton — even as their primary marathon staggered on. |
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BBC News |
5:05pm PDT |
City Salute |
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Summary: Thousands attend tribute to injured forces personnel |
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Yahoo News |
4:59pm PDT |
DMX arrested for speeding, reckless driving in Ariz.
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Summary: AP - DMX was arrested after speed-enforcement cameras captured him in his bright yellow 1966 Chevrolet going 114 mph on a suburban Phoenix freeway. |
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BBC News |
4:36pm PDT |
'Better' prison planning needed |
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Summary: Ministers are urged to produce "clear plans" for coping with Scotland's growing prison population. |
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4:27pm PDT |
Prison toilets are 'unacceptable' |
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Summary: A sex offenders' prison is branded "unacceptable" after inmates were made to use buckets instead of a toilet. |
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BBC News |
4:11pm PDT |
UK interest rate 'set to be held' |
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Summary: UK interest rates are set to be held at 5%, most analysts predict, despite a flurry of downbeat economic data. |
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Yahoo News |
4:04pm PDT |
US pressing to deliver aid to Myanmar
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Pentagon readied people and equipment for an aid mission to cyclone-stricken Myanmar, but the top U.S. diplomat in the Asian nation said its military junta was "paranoid" about accepting American help. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
China torch team to scale Everest |
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Summary: Chinese climbers are to begin their ascent of Mount Everest with the Olympic flame, due to be broadcast on live TV. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Olympic torch team nears summit of Everest |
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Summary: Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame are approaching the summit of Everest, Chinese media report. |
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Cnn.com |
3:59pm PDT |
Brazilian man acquitted in U.S. nun's death |
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Summary: A Brazilian rancher convicted of orchestrating the 2005 killing of an American nun has been acquitted after a witness contradicted his own earlier testimony and said there had not been an order to carry out the assassination.
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Yahoo News |
3:57pm PDT |
Chantix recommended to quit smoking despite safety concerns
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The federal government's new advice to doctors for helping smokers quit recommends the drug Chantix, which has recently been linked with depression and suicidal behavior. The new guidelines mention the psychiatric risks but also say the popular Pfize |
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Cnn.com |
3:55pm PDT |
Video shows police beating restrained suspects |
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Summary: An internal investigation is under way into the videotaped beatings of three men by several Philadelphia police officers, according to Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.
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Yahoo News |
3:52pm PDT |
Myanmar under pressure, death toll may rise sharply
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Myanmar's military government came under
pressure on Wednesday to open its borders to more international
help after a devastating cyclone that a U.S. diplomat said may
have killed more than 100,000 people. |
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Yahoo News |
3:52pm PDT |
Feds penetrated drug culture easily at San Diego State
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Undercover agents who posed as college students to bust more than 100 suspected drug dealers at San Diego State University never had to crack a book to gain acceptance on campus. All it took was cash. |
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BBC News |
3:48pm PDT |
Japan tourists 'freed in Yemen' |
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Summary: Two female Japanese tourists are released in Yemen hours after they were seized by gunmen, officials say. |
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Yahoo News |
3:42pm PDT |
Iran's influence in Latin America worries U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iran is making allies in Latin
America to counter Washington's traditional influence in the
region and could use them to threaten U.S. security, a top U.S.
diplomat said on Wednesday. |
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BBC News |
3:41pm PDT |
Man dies in cottage gas explosion |
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Summary: A man is killed and others injured when two cottages collapse in a gas explosion in London. |
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Cnn.com |
3:34pm PDT |
Israel turns 60 amid hopes, doubts |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
3:24pm PDT |
Cheney aide subpoenaed to testify to Congress
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's
chief of staff was subpoenaed on Wednesday to testify in a
congressional probe of the administration's treatment and
possible torture of enemy combatants. |
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Yahoo News |
3:18pm PDT |
Technical flaws mar hearing in new Guantanamo court
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Osama bin
Laden's suspected "media director" rejected U.S. terrorism
court proceedings and renewed his allegiance to the al Qaeda
leader on Wednesday in a hearing marred by technical flaws in a
new Guantanamo courtroom. |
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BBC News |
3:17pm PDT |
Eriksson 'in talks' with Benfica |
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Summary: Manchester City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson holds talks with Portuguese club Benfica, BBC Sport understands. |
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BBC News |
3:11pm PDT |
Princes attend forces spectacle |
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Summary: Princes William and Harry joined crowds at an open-air event to raise money for injured servicemen and women. |
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Yahoo News |
3:08pm PDT |
GM Bob Watson says Roger Clemens not welcome on Olympic team
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Roger Clemens isn't welcome on the U.S. Olympic baseball team. U.S. general manager Bob Watson said Wednesday that he isn't considering the 45-year-old right-hander for his roster for the Beijing Games. |
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Yahoo News |
3:04pm PDT |
Clinton vows to press on as time, options running out
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Her money drained and her options dwindling, a resolute Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to press on with her presidential bid even as she and top advisers were hard-pressed to describe a realistic path for her to wrest the nomination from Bara |
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Yahoo News |
3:03pm PDT |
Bush criticizes new Cuban leadership
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island. |
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Cnn.com |
2:57pm PDT |
Israel marks 60 years amid hopes, doubts |
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