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4:02pm PDT |
Pollution 'lifts blood clot risk' |
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Summary: Breathing in air pollution from traffic fumes can raise the risk of potentially deadly blood clots, a US study says. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Tests 'damaging' to school system |
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Summary: The Sats tests being taken by 11-year-olds in England this week are damaging the balance of lessons, say MPs. |
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Second negative month for sales |
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Summary: UK retail sales fall for the second month in April, according to the British Retail Consortium. |
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
High Street sales fall again |
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Summary: UK retail sales fall for the second month in April, according to the British Retail Consortium. |
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Cnn.com |
3:53pm PDT |
Families argue autism-vaccine link in court |
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Yahoo News |
3:51pm PDT |
U.S. flight lands in Myanmar as aid trickles in
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The first U.S. military aid flight to
Myanmar landed in Yangon on Monday but emergency supplies
remained at a trickle for 1.5 million people facing hunger and
disease in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta. |
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Yahoo News |
3:47pm PDT |
Barr announces Libertarian White House bid
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government. |
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Yahoo News |
3:47pm PDT |
Ex-officials: Bush admin. ignored Iraq corruption
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Departmen |
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BBC News |
3:41pm PDT |
Officer hurt in booby-trap bomb |
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Summary: An off-duty police officer is injured in an under-car booby-trap explosion in a County Tyrone village. |
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3:39pm PDT |
Bush offers help for Lebanon army |
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Summary: The US is ready to help improve Lebanon's army so it can disarm Hezbollah, President George W Bush tells the BBC. |
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Yahoo News |
3:37pm PDT |
McCain urges free-market solution on warming
(AP)
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Summary: AP - John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents with a free-market solution that includes capping carbon-fuel emissions. |
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Yahoo News |
3:25pm PDT |
Tiger's rehab going well; hopes to play in 2 weeks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tiger Woods is chipping and putting again, and he hopes to play in the Memorial in two weeks. But even if he can't compete until the U.S. Open, he doesn't expect the same result as his last layoff during a season. |
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Yahoo News |
3:24pm PDT |
NBC says Fallon to succeed O'Brien on 'Late Night'
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Jimmy Fallon's eighth-grade yearbook at St. Mary of the Snow in Saugerties, N.Y., listed him as "most likely to take over for David Letterman." Letterman's not going anywhere, but close enough: Fallon is succeeding Conan O'Brien as the host of NBC's |
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3:23pm PDT |
Duke pitches Pirates past Braves to open twinbill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Freddy Sanchez's three-run double in the fifth inning broke a scoreless tie, leading Zach Duke and the streaking Pittsburgh Pirates past the Atlanta Braves 5-0 Monday in the first game of a doubleheader. |
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BBC News |
3:21pm PDT |
Fashion focus |
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Summary: Who wore what at the Sex and the City premiere |
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Cnn.com |
3:19pm PDT |
Fires shut part of I-95; schools evacuated |
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Summary: Wildfires scorched two counties in central Florida on Sunday, closing a major interstate and forcing the evacuation of some coastal residents.
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Yahoo News |
3:14pm PDT |
China quake kills nearly 10,000 in Sichuan province
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - An earthquake devastated
southwestern China, killing close to 10,000 people and trapping
hundreds of others under schools, factories and houses while
the worst-hit area was still cut off from rescuers on Tuesday. |
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Cnn.com |
3:11pm PDT |
Superdelegates boost Obama before likely loss |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama today took the lead in the race for superdelegates on the eve of a contest that's expected to fall easily into Sen. Hillary Clinton's column. Obama and Clinton face off Tuesday in West Virginia, where polls show Clinton ahead by more tha |
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BBC News |
3:10pm PDT |
Chad closes its border with Sudan |
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Summary: Chad closes its border with Sudan, a day after Sudan cut diplomatic ties following a rebel attack near Khartoum. |
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BBC News |
3:07pm PDT |
Officer hurt in Tyrone explosion |
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Summary: An off-duty police officer is injured in an explosion in the County Tyrone village of Spamount. |
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Yahoo News |
3:07pm PDT |
U.S. revives reward plan for Rwanda suspects
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States announced on
Monday it had revived a program offering rewards of up to $5
million a head for information leading to the arrest of 13
suspects in Rwanda's genocide. |
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Yahoo News |
3:01pm PDT |
Obama in West Virginia with eye on McCain
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democratic
front-runner Barack Obama made a quick stop in West Virginia on
Monday ahead of an expected bad loss there to White House rival
Hillary Clinton, but he was already looking past the contest to
November's fight with Republican John |
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2:56pm PDT |
Conference questions meaning of 'man' |
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Pro-family leader Mike Heath is questioning the subject matter of a 'Boys to Men' conference being held at a Maine university.
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AgapePress |
2:53pm PDT |
Iran's 'mini-army' fighting Lebanese gov't |
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As the situation in Lebanon continues to deteriorate, one Lebanese fugitive is concerned about the future of democracy in her native land.
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Yahoo News |
2:39pm PDT |
Genetically modified human embryo stirs criticism
(AP)
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Summary: AP - News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it's a step toward creating "designer babies." |
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Cnn.com |
2:35pm PDT |
Sadr City violence flares despite reported truce |
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Summary: Violence flared in Sadr City on Sunday night and Monday morning despite earlier word of a truce between the Iraqi government and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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2:33pm PDT |
Embryology laws pass first hurdle |
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Summary: MPs allow plans to update embryology laws to continue through Parliament, despite deep splits among MPs. |
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Cnn.com |
2:26pm PDT |
China earthquake kills, traps thousands |
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Summary: Thousands of people have been killed by a powerful earthquake in just one affected region of central China, the government said, with the toll expected to keep rising as bodies are pulled from schools, homes and factories. Aid workers have yet to reach We |
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BBC News |
2:20pm PDT |
HP confirms in talks to buy EDS |
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Summary: Hewlett-Packard confirms that it is in talks to buy the IT services provider Electronic Data Systems. |
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Yahoo News |
2:19pm PDT |
Play of the Day: Clinton's rise and shine surprise
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Doris Smith went downtown early Monday to see about getting tickets to Barack Obama's rally. Advance seats were sold out, she said, and the only option was to stand in line for up two hours or more and hope for the best. |
