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ChristianPost |
5:12am PDT |
Evangelical Statement on Faith, Politics Stirs Up Religious Right |
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Summary: Prominent evangelicals urged Christian conservatives Wednesday to support "an expansion of our concerns beyond single-issue politics," angering some leaders on the religious right who have been closely allied with the Republican ... |
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Yahoo News |
5:11am PDT |
Retailers report mixed results in April
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Consumers gave some of the nation's retailers a little relief in April following months of dismal sales, but business was helped along by heavy discounting that could hurt first-quarter earnings. |
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Yahoo News |
5:10am PDT |
MVP Kobe Bryant leads Lakers to 2-0 series lead over Jazz
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The chants of "MVP, MVP" directed at Kobe Bryant by Los Angeles Lakers' fans have a different meaning now. They represent fact, not just sentiment. Bryant played like a Most Valuable Player on Wednesday night, getting 34 points, eight rebounds and si |
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Yahoo News |
4:57am PDT |
Austrian father reveals his "addiction" to incest
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Austrian Josef Fritzl said he became
addicted to incest with his daughter, who bore him seven
children, and had imprisoned her in a cellar to save her from
the outside world. |
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ChristianToday |
4:57am PDT |
Christian relief prayers helping to ease unimaginable suffering in Burma |
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Summary: Christian aid agencies and leaders are keeping Burma in their prayers as they scramble emergency aid to the cycloneravaged country |
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BBC News |
4:52am PDT |
Man is guilty of student killing |
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Summary: A jury finds a man guilty of manslaughter but clears him of murder after the death of a student. |
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BBC News |
4:50am PDT |
Castle boy wins brain injury case |
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Summary: A teenager left brain damaged after being kicked on a bouncy castle wins his damages claim. |
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BBC News |
4:50am PDT |
Bouncy castle boy wins brain injury case |
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Summary: A teenager left brain damaged after being kicked on a bouncy castle wins his damages claim. |
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BBC News |
4:50am PDT |
Boy wins bouncy castle injury claim |
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Summary: A teenager left brain damaged after being kicked on a bouncy castle wins his damages claim. |
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BBC News |
4:48am PDT |
Witter looking to unify welterweight division |
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Summary: Junior Witter hopes to unify the light-welterweight division if he holds on to his WBC belt by beating Timothy Bradley on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
4:48am PDT |
Boxing: Witter looks to impress |
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Summary: Junior Witter hopes to unify the light-welterweight division if he holds on to his WBC belt by beating Timothy Bradley on Saturday. |
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BBC News |
4:48am PDT |
Witter looks to impress in title fight |
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Summary: Junior Witter hopes to unify the light-welterweight division if he holds on to his WBC belt by beating Timothy Bradley on Saturday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:43am PDT |
Clinton campaign presses on with visits to 3 states today
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Clinton is pushing on in her race for the Democratic White House bid, despite calls to drop out. She has events scheduled today in the upcoming primary states of Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia. Barack Obama will be in Washington today |
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BBC News |
4:40am PDT |
ITV hit with record £5.68m fine |
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Summary: ITV has been given a £5.68m fine by media regulator Ofcom for misleading viewers with its premium phone lines. |
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Yahoo News |
4:39am PDT |
Scientists map the genetic makeup of the platypus
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus — one of nature's strangest animals with a bill like a duck's, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom. |
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Yahoo News |
4:36am PDT |
Chinese team takes Olympic torch to top of Mount Everest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China's ambitions for the Beijing games. The Mount Everest climbers could be heard struggling for breath in a live tele |
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BBC News |
4:35am PDT |
Scots leaders clash on independence |
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Summary: Alex Salmond and Wendy Alexander clash over the independence referendum at Holyrood. |
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BBC News |
4:30am PDT |
UN aid flights to Burma under way |
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Summary: The UN says its first flight bringing relief to Burma cyclone victims has landed, but the US says its aid is still blocked. |
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BBC News |
4:27am PDT |
Malaysian woman can leave Islam |
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Summary: In a landmark ruling, a religious court in Malaysia decides that a Muslim convert can leave the faith. |
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BBC News |
4:13am PDT |
Level of breached Asbos increases |
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Summary: The proportion of people breaching Asbos in England and Wales goes up, but the overlal number issued falls. |
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Yahoo News |
4:11am PDT |
Official: UN plane lands in Myanmar with aid after cyclone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000 |
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BBC News |
4:03am PDT |
Future farming |
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Summary: Why organic, outdoor, 'natural' farming can be bad |
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BBC News |
4:02am PDT |
Jaffa stories |
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Summary: Residents of Israel's mixed city on coexistence |
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BBC News |
4:00am PDT |
Interest rates unchanged at 5% |
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Summary: UK interest rates are held at 5% by the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, as inflation concerns persist. |
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BBC News |
3:57am PDT |
Fresh fears over Chilean volcano |
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Summary: More activity is detected in Chile's Chaiten volcano as the last people leave the area after Friday's eruption. |
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Cnn.com |
3:51am PDT |
Corpses piling up as Myanmar misery deepens |
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Summary: Myanmar's cyclone survivors do not have enough fuel to burn the rotting corpses of the dead as the country's military junta continues to drag its feet over access for aid groups.
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BBC News |
3:49am PDT |
Fewer letters widen Mail's losses |
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Summary: A slump in the number of stamped letters sees Royal Mail's losses widen to £279m in the year to March. |
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BBC News |
3:47am PDT |
Man, 72, held after woman's death |
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Summary: Police investigating the death of a 74-year-old woman in the north west Highlands arrest a 72-year-old man. |
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BBC News |
3:42am PDT |
Sounding off |
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Summary: Why are the hard of hearing so irked by noisy ads? |
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Yahoo News |
3:39am PDT |
Putin becomes PM in leadership 'tandem'
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Vladimir Putin will retain a "key role" in Russia for years as prime minister, new President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday, as the two men opened an unprecedented era of dual rule. |
