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BBC News |
2:30pm PDT |
Body find in make-up artist hunt |
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Summary: The husband of a missing make-up artist is arrested following the discovery of a body. |
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Yahoo News |
2:22pm PDT |
House blocks Iraq war money and sets pullout plan
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The House of Representatives, in a
surprise and largely symbolic move, defeated legislation on
Thursday to fund the war in Iraq for another year. |
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Yahoo News |
2:09pm PDT |
Ford elected to Boston-based archaeological group
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The actor who helped glamorize archaeology on the big screen is lending his star power to the Archaeological Institute of America. |
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Cnn.com |
2:03pm PDT |
California's gay marriage ban struck down |
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Summary: The California Supreme Court today struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Several gay and lesbian couples, along with the city of San Francisco and gay rights groups, sued to overturn state laws allowing only marriages betwe |
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BBC News |
1:59pm PDT |
Dunlop seriously ill after crash |
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Summary: Robert Dunlop suffers severe chest injuries in a crash in Thursday's practice at the North West 200. |
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ChristianPost |
1:56pm PDT |
Research Explores 'Evangelical Intelligentsia' |
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Summary: For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on ... |
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Cnn.com |
1:50pm PDT |
Michelle Obama gets heat from Tennessee GOP |
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Summary: In a preview of the political onslaught Michelle Obama may face in the fall, the Tennessee Republican Party unveiled a Web video Thursday highlighting her comment that she was proud of America "for the first time in my adult life."
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Yahoo News |
1:42pm PDT |
Baby subpoenaed for unpaid chiropractor bill
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A Harrisonburg court has dismissed a case against a baby boy summoned to appear in court for an unpaid bill. Richard White said he was shocked when he got a subpoena in the mail requiring his 1-year-old son, Jacy, to appear in Rockingham County Gener |
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Yahoo News |
1:32pm PDT |
Jolie, pregnant with twins, stays cool at Cannes
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins, has some secrets for staying serene at the Cannes Film Festival: get her partner, Brad Pitt, to baby-sit, and wear comfy shoes on the red carpet. |
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Yahoo News |
1:30pm PDT |
House defeats $162.5 bln in new war funds
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday defeated legislation that would have funded the war in
Iraq for another year, in a surprise move that the Senate could
overturn. |
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Cnn.com |
1:25pm PDT |
Republicans block Dems' war-funding bill |
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Summary: Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked a $163 billion war funding bill Thursday, dealing a surprising defeat to Democrats who had expected to pass the measure.
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Yahoo News |
1:18pm PDT |
Iraqi forces mount al-Qaida hunt in Mosul
(AP)
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Summary: AP - U.S. and Iraqi troops moved against al-Qaida on two separate fronts Thursday, with house-to-house searches in Mosul and an operation in the desert to stanch the flow of insurgents and weapons to that northern city. |
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Yahoo News |
1:17pm PDT |
McCain: U.S. can win Iraq war by 2013
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican presidential
candidate John McCain said on Thursday he believes the Iraq war
can be won by 2013, leaving a functioning democracy there and
allowing most U.S. troops to come home. |
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ChristianPost |
1:17pm PDT |
Obama Supports Campaign for N. Korean Refugees |
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Summary: Leading democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday that he 'strongly support[s]' the nationwide Korean-American church campaign demanding human rights for North Korean ... |
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Cnn.com |
1:16pm PDT |
Cyclone victims get rotted food, group says |
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Yahoo News |
1:13pm PDT |
Senators reach deal on housing rescue: sources
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Key members of the U.S. Senate have
reached a deal on a sweeping housing rescue plan in which
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would backstop a
government mortgage insurance fund, two industry sources said
on Thursday. |
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Cnn.com |
1:09pm PDT |
Mom charged in MySpace hoax linked to death |
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Cnn.com |
1:00pm PDT |
China aftermath: Total chaos, small miracles |
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Summary: iReporter Ben Geisler rode his motorcycle into some of the areas hardest hit in Monday's earthquake.
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OneNewsNowPress |
12:55pm PDT |
Calif. ruling akin to 'legal tsunami' |
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Summary:
Christian attorney Steve Crampton says the California Supreme Court abandoned the rule of law and common sense with its decision today that re-defined marriage.
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Yahoo News |
12:47pm PDT |
Pair say they attacked each other with frying pan
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Out of the frying pan and into the fire. That's pretty much what happened to a Cumberland County couple arrested and charged with whacking each other with a frying pan. |
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Yahoo News |
12:45pm PDT |
Barkley says he'll pay huge gambling debt
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges. "My mistake," Barkley said in an interview at a pro-am go |
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Yahoo News |
12:39pm PDT |
Obama says Bush falsely accused him of appeasement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack" Thursday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists — early salvos in a general election campaign that's already blazing even as Obama tries to sew up his party's nominat |
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Cnn.com |
12:38pm PDT |
Dems fire back at Bush on 'appeasement' |
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Summary: President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way some Western leaders appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II.
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Yahoo News |
12:37pm PDT |
U.S. House defeats $162.5 bln in new war funds
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday defeated legislation that would have funded the war in
Iraq for another year, in a surprise move that the Senate could
overturn. |
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Yahoo News |
12:30pm PDT |
McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals. |
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BBC News |
12:29pm PDT |
Two men in campus terror arrest |
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Summary: Police arrest two men at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act. |
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Cnn.com |
12:29pm PDT |
Indictment sought in Internet suicide |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
12:28pm PDT |
California justices reject same-sex marriage ban |
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Summary: The California Supreme Court today struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. Several gay and lesbian couples, along with the city of San Francisco and gay rights groups, sued to overturn state laws allowing only marriages betwe |
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Yahoo News |
12:19pm PDT |
People over 60 urged to get one-time shingles shot
(AP)
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Summary: AP - People 60 and older should get a one-time shingles shot that can help prevent the painful rash, U.S. health officials are recommending. There's a 50-50 chance the shot will prevent shingles for those 60 and up, though the odds get worse the older you |
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OneNewsNowPress |
12:19pm PDT |
California Supreme Court rules in favor of homosexual 'marriage' |
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Summary:
The California Supreme Court has ruled that homosexual marriage must be legalized in that state.
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