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ChristianPost |
3:32pm PDT |
Former NBA Star 'Unqualified' Over Religious Views in Mayoral Race |
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Summary: Kevin Johnson, the former Hall of Fame NBA All Star and current mayoral candidate for the City of Sacramento, has been slandered as unqualified for the job recently on the basis of his religious ... |
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Yahoo News |
3:21pm PDT |
World fears for plight of Myanmar cyclone victims
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - International fears about the plight of
1.5 million victims in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar deepened on
Tuesday as the United Nations and Western powers suggested
helpless people could have been robbed of food and other aid. |
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BBC News |
3:20pm PDT |
Rescuers reach Chinese epicentre |
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Summary: Rescue teams finally break through to the epicentre of China's earthquake, where an estimated 60,000 are missing. |
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Yahoo News |
3:13pm PDT |
Clinton seeks largely symbolic win in W.Va.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out for a largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary Tuesday over Barack Obama, front-runner in a historic Democratic presidential race nearing an end. Obama conceded defeat in advance in the state, looking a |
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Yahoo News |
3:10pm PDT |
Soldiers hike to quake-buried Chinese villages
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 is certain to rise as the buried are found. |
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BBC News |
3:08pm PDT |
Vatican says aliens could exist |
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Summary: The chief astronomer of the Roman Catholic Church says intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. |
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BBC News |
2:57pm PDT |
Colombian sends ex-warlords to US |
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Summary: Colombia extradites 14 former paramilitary bosses to face drugs charges in the US after they violated a peace deal. |
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Yahoo News |
2:52pm PDT |
North Korea to cooperate on nuclear verification: U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - North Korea has agreed to cooperate
fully on verifying its nuclear declaration, a U.S. official
said on Tuesday as he displayed some of the 18,822 documents
Pyongyang has given Washington about its plutonium program. |
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BBC News |
2:49pm PDT |
PM approached as TV show judge, minister's papers reveal |
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Summary: Producers have apparently approached Gordon Brown to star in an Apprentice-style TV show, it emerges. |
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Cnn.com |
2:48pm PDT |
Suspects on reservation die in battle with cops |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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ChristianPost |
2:42pm PDT |
Ga. Church Draws Worshippers with $500 Gas Raffle |
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Summary: SNELLVILLE, Ga. (AP) — So much for spaghetti suppers: The First Baptist Church of Snellville is fueling its membership drive with a sign in front of its sprawling campus proclaiming "Free ... |
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Yahoo News |
2:28pm PDT |
LaBeouf: Cigs run led to Walgreens arrest
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Turns out it was a nicotine jones that led to Shia LaBeouf's arrest in Chicago. The 21-year-old actor, who stars opposite Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," told the story of his infamous Walgreen's arrest during h |
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Yahoo News |
2:27pm PDT |
Police report 60 killed by bombs in western India
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A series of bombs exploded across the ancient city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage. |
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BBC News |
2:25pm PDT |
Bristol City reach play-off final |
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Summary: Extra-time goals from Lee Trundle and Michael McIndoe help Bristol City beat Crystal Palace 4-2 on aggregate and reach the Championship play-off final. |
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Yahoo News |
2:04pm PDT |
FBI cites escalating mortgage fraud problem
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Mortgage fraud is an escalating
problem in the United States, the FBI said on Tuesday in a
report that cited the subprime lending crisis as a key
contributing factor. |
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BBC News |
1:59pm PDT |
'20th hijacker' |
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Summary: Why were 9/11 charges dropped against a suspect? |
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AgapePress |
1:57pm PDT |
West Virginia Democratic primary results |
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Summary:
WV primary results
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Yahoo News |
1:53pm PDT |
Colombia extradites 14 militia bosses to U.S.
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Colombia extradited 14 former
paramilitary leaders to the United States on Tuesday to face
drug-trafficking and other charges after authorities said the
warlords violated terms of a peace deal with the government. |
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Yahoo News |
1:36pm PDT |
Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown. Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their ri |
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Yahoo News |
1:33pm PDT |
Ex-Patriots video assistant meets Goodell, Specter
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh disclosed no new rules violations in the Spygate scandal during his meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell or in the tapes that the league released Tuesday. The clips, shown after Walsh's nearly 3 1/2-h |
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Yahoo News |
1:31pm PDT |
Battle to reach survivors as China quake toll rises
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - The death toll from China's worst earthquake in a generation rose early Wednesday as more details emerged of the scale of destruction that has left tens of thousands dead, missing or buried under rubble. |
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ChristianPost |
1:15pm PDT |
Christians Respond Promptly to China Earthquake |
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Summary: The world watched in horror Monday as a jolting 7.9 magnitude earthquake – the latest in a series of global natural disasters – wreaked havoc across China’s southwestern Sichuan ... |
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Yahoo News |
1:15pm PDT |
Clinton looks for big West Virginia win
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton appeared headed to a
big West Virginia victory over front-runner Barack Obama in the
Democratic presidential race on Tuesday, although it could be
too late to turn around her faltering White House bid. |
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AgapePress |
1:10pm PDT |
Hagee apologizes to Roman Catholics |
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Summary:
John Hagee, an influential Texas televangelist who endorsed John McCain, apologized to Catholics Tuesday for his stinging criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and for having "emphasized the darkest chapters in the history of Catholic and Protestant rel |
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Cnn.com |
1:09pm PDT |
Feds: Girl, 12, trained to be dominatrix |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
1:09pm PDT |
SDLP hits out at new exam plans |
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Summary: A new post-primary transfer test for schoolchildren in NI would be a "climbdown", according to the SDLP. |
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Cnn.com |
1:07pm PDT |
Senate backs effort to lower gas prices |
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Summary: The Senate voted 97-1 Tuesday to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months in an effort to bring gas prices down, a move President Bush opposes.
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BBC News |
1:06pm PDT |
UK tourists 'turn up' after quake |
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Summary: A group of 31 British tourists have turned up unharmed after the earthquake in south-western China, the government says. |
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Cnn.com |
1:05pm PDT |
Clinton focused on W.Va., Obama on future |
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Summary: A big victory in West Virginia today could re-energize Sen. Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House and raise fresh doubts about Sen. Barack Obama's electability in November. But while Clinton, it seems, is concentrating on the present, Obama is looking |
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BBC News |
1:03pm PDT |
N Korea 'admits nuclear details' |
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Summary: A senior US diplomat says North Korea appears to have handed over full details of its plutonium programme. |
