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Yahoo News |
8:48am PDT |
Bengals release Thurman, suspended last 2 years
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Summary: AP - Troubled linebacker Odell Thurman has been released by the Cincinnati Bengals, one month after he was reinstated by the NFL from a two-year suspension. |
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Yahoo News |
8:47am PDT |
Bush: Congress making progress on housing reform
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - President George W. Bush on Monday
said the economy was working through "tough times," adding that
Congress was making some progress on a new law aimed at helping
the troubled housing market. |
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BBC News |
8:41am PDT |
Heroin family death pair jailed |
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Summary: The mother and half-sister of a teenager who died of a heroin overdose have been jailed for her manslaughter. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
8:36am PDT |
Pastor: Cleared by IRS |
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A Southern Baptist pastor in California has been cleared by the Internal Revenue Service of any wrongdoing for endorsing Republican Mike Huckabee for president.
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Yahoo News |
8:36am PDT |
Americans worry about funding a long retirement
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Americans worry that inflation and the rising cost of health care are increasing the risk that they will run out of money in retirement, according to a study released Monday. |
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Yahoo News |
8:31am PDT |
U.S. troop deployments set to keep Iraq level steady
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Pentagon plans to send 39,000
soldiers to Iraq to replace troops scheduled to leave the war
zone and to hold the total U.S. force level steady over the
next year. |
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Yahoo News |
8:28am PDT |
38 charged in international phishing scheme
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Federal authorities have charged 38 people with stealing names, Social Security numbers, credit card data and other personal information from unsuspecting Internet users, the Justice Department said Monday. |
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Cnn.com |
8:25am PDT |
Soldiers shave heads to support cancer kids |
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Summary: Under a huge tent just outside the medical unit at Camp Liberty, shielded from the blazing sun, soldiers watch and cheer as two men at a time get their heads shaved. Clumps of hair fall to the hot sand below.
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BBC News |
8:18am PDT |
Pupil death conviction is quashed |
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Summary: A headteacher who was found guilty of health and safety breaches over a pupil's death has his conviction overturned. |
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BBC News |
8:14am PDT |
Hybrid embryos 'should be banned' |
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Summary: Allowing scientists to carry out research using hybrid human-animal embryos "is a step too far, MPs are told. |
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Yahoo News |
8:09am PDT |
High court upholds child pornography law
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a
provision of a 2003 federal law making it a crime to promote or
present material as child pornography. |
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ChristianToday |
8:07am PDT |
China pauses to mourn quake victims |
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Summary: From tent cities in Sichuan province to Beijings Tiananmen Square sirens wailed and millions of Chinese stood for three minutes on Monday to mourn the tens of thousands who died in last weeks earthquake |
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ChristianPost |
8:00am PDT |
Exposing the Darwinian Paradox |
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Summary: Many of you have probably seen or at least heard of Ben Stein’s documentary film, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. The film tackles allegations of suppressed academic freedom within American universities and attempts to demonstrate that any scientist w |
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Cnn.com |
7:59am PDT |
Innocent man spends 17 yrs imprisoned, beaten |
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Summary: James Waller can tell you exactly how much time he spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit: "10 years, 11 months and three days." With the help of the Innocence Project, he was exonerated in March 2007. But he says he won't feel free until he leaves |
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Yahoo News |
7:56am PDT |
Court upholds part of child porn law
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court upheld criminal penalties Monday for promoting child pornography. |
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ChristianToday |
7:56am PDT |
MPs to vote on humananimal embryos |
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Summary: MPs vote on Monday on farreaching changes to Britains laws on fertility research including controversial proposals to allow scientists to create hybrid humananimal embryos |
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ChristianToday |
7:55am PDT |
Drinkers confused over safe alcohol limits |
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Summary: A trend to serving wine in larger glasses has added to public confusion over how much alcohol is safe to drink the government said on Monday |
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ChristianToday |
7:54am PDT |
Armed forces and veterans day proposed |
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Summary: Britains armed forces and veterans should be celebrated in an annual day of parades and special events a governmentcommissioned study into raising public awareness of the military said on Monday |
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Cnn.com |
7:53am PDT |
China mourns, quake toll climbs |
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Summary: Crowds gathered in the devastated city of Chengdu shouted "Farewell, friends!" and "Rebuild!" as China began three days of mourning to honor the tens of thousands killed by last week's massive earthquake. Authorities estimate the death toll could reach 50 |
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OneNewsNowPress |
7:53am PDT |
'Cause-and-effect' behind high gas prices |
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Summary:
Senator John Kyl says ethanol mandates as well as bad tax and regulatory policies are to blame for the exorbitant fuel prices hammering American families.
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ChristianToday |
7:53am PDT |
Mobile phone payments pose huge fraud risk |
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Summary: Contactless payments made via mobile phones pose the greatest future threat to the security of consumers financial details a leading security expert says |
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Cnn.com |
7:50am PDT |
Polygamist custody case begins |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
7:50am PDT |
Huge FLDS custody case begins, split 463 ways |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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OneNewsNowPress |
7:48am PDT |
The gospel and the Olympics |
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Leaders of several organizations are working hard in preparation for a Christian presence at the Olympics in Beijing later this summer. One of them is Steve McConkey of "4 Winds," a ministry to track and field athletes.
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ChristianToday |
7:41am PDT |
Dr Peter Saunders on hybrid embryos saviour siblings and abortion |
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Summary: The public has been lied to on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill warns the head of the Christian Medical Fellowship Dr Peter Saunders |
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Cnn.com |
7:28am PDT |
Tiny starfish swarm undersea mountains |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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BBC News |
7:18am PDT |
Labour's 'toff' campaign defended |
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Summary: Labour's candidate in Crewe and Nantwich defends her campaign's focus on her Tory rival's background. |
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Yahoo News |
7:13am PDT |
Supreme Court upholds anti-child pornography law
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The Supreme Court has upheld criminal penalties for promoting child pornography. |
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BBC News |
7:13am PDT |
Lebanese unity plan 'in trouble' |
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Summary: The Qatari hosts of Lebanon crisis talks await a response from rival factions to a unity cabinet proposal |
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BBC News |
7:10am PDT |
Brother jailed for blaze killings |
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Summary: A teenager who killed his two sisters when he set fire to the family's Tyneside home is jailed. |
