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2:31pm PDT |
Search for bodies at Manson ranch |
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Summary: Police carry out new excavations at a US ranch to search for possible victims of murderer Charles Manson. |
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Cnn.com |
2:30pm PDT |
Gay Iranian wins British asylum fight |
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Summary: Britain has granted asylum to Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who faced deportation from the United Kingdom and feared execution in Iran for being homosexual, officials confirmed Tuesday.
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2:25pm PDT |
Food Price Crisis Threatens Relief for the Poor |
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Summary: Drastic food price hikes coupled with swelling numbers of hungry people have caused some leading relief agencies to worry that they will soon be forced to turn away those desperate for ... |
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2:21pm PDT |
MPs vote on '12-week abortions' |
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Summary: MPs have begun to vote on whether to cut the 24-week upper limit for abortions to 12 weeks. |
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Yahoo News |
2:20pm PDT |
Alleged 9/11 "20th hijacker" tried suicide: lawyer
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A Saudi
citizen who allegedly intended to be the "20th hijacker" on
September 11 tried to kill himself last month at the U.S.
prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after learning he faced
charges that could carry the death penalty, his lawyer |
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Cnn.com |
2:15pm PDT |
NFL's third pick gets bigger deal than No. 1 |
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Summary: Soon after the Atlanta Falcons informed Matt Ryan's agent, Tom Condon, that they were going to take him with their first pick on NFL draft weekend, Falcons president Rich McKay said to the veteran agent, "You know where we are. Can you do this early?"
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Yahoo News |
2:08pm PDT |
Fire in Sao Paulo causes brief plane crash scare
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - A big fire in a commercial building
in Brazil's financial capital of Sao Paulo on Tuesday prompted
reports of a plane crash that were swiftly denied. |
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1:49pm PDT |
US man admits hit-and-run death |
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Summary: An American student admits killing a 24-year-old Edinburgh woman in a hit-and-run in New York. |
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Cnn.com |
1:44pm PDT |
Lieberman to YouTube: Nix al Qaeda videos |
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Summary: Sen. Joseph Lieberman is urging Google Inc. to take down YouTube videos that he said al Qaeda and "other terrorist organizations" use to encourage violence and disseminate propaganda.
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Yahoo News |
1:42pm PDT |
Smoke in Sao Paulo is fire, not plane crash: TV
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Brazilian television network Globo TV
changed a report on Tuesday that an airplane had crashed into a
building in Sao Paulo, saying the smoke billowing over
skyscrapers was caused by a fire. |
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1:39pm PDT |
Problems rare but more likely in teen blood donors
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Complications from donating blood are rare but happen more often in teens than in older donors, including dizziness, fainting and falls, a study found. |
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1:35pm PDT |
Obama nears watershed in White House race with Clinton
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Democrat Barack Obama was Tuesday to take a big stride to the party's White House nomination as Kentucky and Oregon voted, but Hillary Clinton's camp insisted she was the best general election bet. |
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1:28pm PDT |
China's post-quake challenge: 5 million homeless
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China is grappling with the next massive task in the aftermath of its earthquake — how to shelter the 5 million people left homeless. |
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ChristianPost |
1:10pm PDT |
Cardinal: Iraqi Christians Shouldn't Get Special Visa Privilege |
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Summary: Iraqi Christians seeking to resettle in the West should not get special treatment based on religion, said a Roman Catholic cardinal on ... |
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1:09pm PDT |
Gay Iranian granted asylum in UK |
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Summary: A gay Iranian teenager who it was feared would be executed in Iran has won his fight against deportation. |
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Yahoo News |
1:07pm PDT |
Court: Paper money discriminates against the blind
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Close your eyes, reach into your wallet and try to distinguish between a $1 bill and a $5 bill. Impossible? It's also discriminatory, a federal appeals court says. |
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BBC News |
1:05pm PDT |
Heads lobby over early learning |
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Summary: Head teachers are lobbying assembly members in a continuing row over Foundation learning for young children. |
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Yahoo News |
1:02pm PDT |
Critics: Polar bear plan must fight global warming
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials' refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act. |
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Yahoo News |
1:01pm PDT |
Edward Kennedy is diagnosed with brain tumor
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Legendary Democratic patriarch Senator Edward Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors said Tuesday, sending a wave of sadness and shock through the US political establishment. |
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Yahoo News |
12:53pm PDT |
McCain hammers Obama on national security
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Republican John McCain, speaking to a raucous crowd on Cuba's independence day, hammered Democrat Barack Obama for saying he would meet with President Raul Castro and called Obama a "tool of organized labor" for opposing a Latin American trade deal. |
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Yahoo News |
12:52pm PDT |
Sen. Kennedy has malignant brain tumor: doctors
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy,
the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy and the
elder statesman of American liberal politics, has a malignant
brain tumor, his doctors said on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:51pm PDT |
Eastwood says he won't be back as Dirty Harry
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Clint Eastwood will not be back as Dirty Harry, but Angelina Jolie might want to give it a try. Eastwood was asked Tuesday at a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival if he would be reprising the role of Harry Callahan, the renegade cop of "Dirt |
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12:50pm PDT |
Mike Piazza decides to retire after 16 seasons
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Mike Piazza is retiring from baseball following a 16-season career in which he became one of the top-hitting catchers in history. "After discussing my options with my wife, family and agent, I felt it is time to start a new chapter in my life," he sa |
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Yahoo News |
12:43pm PDT |
Naked pilot, flight attendant arrested in woods
(AP)
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Summary: AP - An airline pilot was found hiding behind a shed wearing only flip-flops and a wristwatch as a nighttime romp in the woods with a flight attendant ended with both under arrest, police said. |
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Iceland tops list of peaceful nations, U.S. 97th
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Iceland is the world's most peaceful
nation while the United States is ranked among the bottom
third, according to a study released on Tuesday. |
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Yahoo News |
12:14pm PDT |
Gates questions notion of useful U.S.-Iran talks
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on
Tuesday questioned whether the United States could have
productive talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
without first stepping up pressure on Tehran. |
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Cnn.com |
12:13pm PDT |
Aid flows to China, less to Myanmar |
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Summary: Humanitarian relief charities, confronted with back-to-back natural disasters, are scrambling to raise money from Americans and corporations.
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BBC News |
12:08pm PDT |
Warning shot |
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Summary: Are police set to walk out, after right-to-strike vote? |
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BBC News |
12:02pm PDT |
Peers reject euro entry vote call |
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Summary: Peers reject an attempt in the Lords to make a referendum before Britain joins the euro a legal necessity. |
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Yahoo News |
11:53am PDT |
Efforts to close Guantanamo at standstill: Gates
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Efforts to explore ways of closing
the military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay have reached a
standstill due to legal and practical problems, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. |
