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BBC News |
4:54pm PDT |
Aviation impacts 'hotly disputed' |
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Summary: Green advisers tell the government airport expansion should be suspended pending an inquiry. |
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BBC News |
4:50pm PDT |
Call to treat sickle cell better |
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Summary: The first national survey of sickle cell and thalassaemia deaths reveal better treatment is needed. |
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BBC News |
4:47pm PDT |
Pupils unaware of university rank |
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Summary: State schools are less likely to tell pupils about differences in status between universities, says research. |
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Yahoo News |
4:45pm PDT |
Clinton wins Kentucky, Obama seeks milestone
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton captured the first
of two Democratic nominating tests on Tuesday with a big win in
Kentucky, but rival Barack Obama was looking for an Oregon
victory later in the evening that would help him reach a major
milestone in the rac |
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BBC News |
4:40pm PDT |
Morbid thought |
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Summary: The controversy over a new "right to die" card |
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Yahoo News |
4:36pm PDT |
Clinton claims Kentucky but Obama targets milestone
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Hillary Clinton scored a consolation win in Tuesday's Kentucky primary, but Barack Obama remained on course to surpass a milestone toward the Democrats' White House nomination. |
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BBC News |
4:34pm PDT |
Fans await Champions League final |
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Summary: Thousands of football fans are in Moscow for the first all-English Champions League final. |
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BBC News |
4:26pm PDT |
MPs back 24-week abortion limit |
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Summary: Attempts to cut the 24-week upper limit for abortions are rejected by MPs. |
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Cnn.com |
4:26pm PDT |
Clinton will win Kentucky primary, CNN projects |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic primary in Kentucky by a wide margin, CNN projects. The results come as Sen. Barack Obama is poised to take a majority of the pledged delegates overall after voters weigh in today in Kentucky and Oregon.
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
Mixed result on class sizes probe |
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Summary: MSPs are due to hear that evidence on the benefits of smaller class sizes is inconclusive. |
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Cnn.com |
4:12pm PDT |
Court rules Va. abortion law unconstitutional |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
4:08pm PDT |
Clinton wins Kentucky, Obama nomination leader
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton won the Kentucky primary Tuesday, a victory of scant political value in a Democratic presidential race moving inexorably in Barack Obama's direction. |
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Yahoo News |
4:05pm PDT |
Clinton beats Obama in Kentucky
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Hillary Clinton captured the first
of two Democratic nominating tests in Kentucky on Tuesday, U.S.
media projected, but rival Barack Obama was favored to win
Oregon later in the evening and reach a major milestone in the
race. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
4:05pm PDT |
Clinton wins Kentucky primary |
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Summary:
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Hillary Rodham Clinton has won the Kentucky primary. However, it's a victory of scant political value in a Democratic presidential race moving inexorably in Barack Obama's direction.
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Clinton 'wins Kentucky primary' |
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Summary: Hillary Clinton wins Kentucky's Democratic primary, US networks project, but Barack Obama looks set to take Oregon. |
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:55pm PDT |
Is it 'TIME' for liberal leadership? |
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A conservative media watchdog is calling mainstream media reporter Amy Sullivan to task for her blatant bias in favor of Democrats and against Republicans during the current presidential election campaign.
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OneNewsNowPress |
3:53pm PDT |
Ministry copes with rising food costs |
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Summary:
Workers with Compassion International are trying to find ways to cope with a sharp rise in food prices, as the ministry provides physical and spiritual nourishment to children in high-risk areas.
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Yahoo News |
3:51pm PDT |
Relatives outside sect seek custody in Texas case
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Two men excommunicated by a polygamist sect went to a west Texas courtroom Tuesday to offer themselves as guardians for their children, who were seized from a church-run ranch, if the state deems their custodial parents unfit. |
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ChristianPost |
3:51pm PDT |
Orthodox Jewish Youths Burn New Testaments in Israel |
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Summary: Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy ... |
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Yahoo News |
3:49pm PDT |
NY police charge seven officers in groom shooting
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Seven New York police officers
involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man on his
wedding night are facing internal disciplinary action, a police
spokesman said on Tuesday. |
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BBC News |
3:45pm PDT |
Evading the junta |
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Summary: Burmese people try to get aid to cyclone survivors |
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Cnn.com |
3:30pm PDT |
R. Kelly jurors watch 25-minute sex tape |
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Summary: The judge ordered the courtroom lights to be lowered and the blinds drawn. And then, the 25-minute sex tape at the heart of the R. Kelly child pornography case played Tuesday before a packed house: a Chicago courtroom.
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BBC News |
3:26pm PDT |
MPs reject cutting abortion limit |
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Summary: Attempts to cut the 24-week upper limit for abortions to 20 or 22 weeks are rejected by MPs. |
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Cnn.com |
3:21pm PDT |
Jury: Ex-cop lied about 92-year-old's shooting |
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Summary: A jury on Tuesday convicted an Atlanta police officer of lying to cover up the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid.
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ChristianPost |
2:50pm PDT |
Overturning California's Gay 'Marriage' Ban |
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Summary: A decision by the California Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional any ban on gay “marriage” is sending shock waves across the nation. The 4-3 decision announced Thursday not only legalizes gay “marriage” in the largest state in America, but it also o |
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Yahoo News |
2:47pm PDT |
Sen. Edward Kennedy has cancerous brain tumor
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor Tuesday in what could be the grim final chapter in a life marked by exhilarating triumph and shattering tragedy. Some experts gave the liberal lion less than a year to live. |
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Yahoo News |
2:45pm PDT |
Prosecutors play sex tape in R. Kelly trial
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of R. Kelly's child pornography trial in open court Tuesday, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl. |
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Yahoo News |
2:43pm PDT |
Bush apologizes over US soldier's Quran shooting
(AP)
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Summary: AP - President Bush has apologized to Iraq's prime minister for an American sniper's shooting of a Quran, and the Iraqi government called on U.S. military commanders to educate their soldiers to respect local religious beliefs. |
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Cnn.com |
2:39pm PDT |
Kennedy brain tumor stuns colleagues |
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Summary: Sen. Ted Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors said today. One senator said the wind was taken out of the room when Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the news to his Democratic colleagues.
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BBC News |
2:35pm PDT |
R Kelly 'taped under-age sex acts' |
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Summary: Opening arguments are made in the child pornography trial involving R&B star R Kelly at a Chicago court. |
