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Cnn.com |
4:54pm PDT |
McCain allows peek at medical records |
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Summary: Sen. John McCain will give select members of the media a three-hour glimpse at his medical records Friday.
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BBC News |
4:48pm PDT |
Seven questions |
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Summary: Test yourself in our quiz of the week's news |
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BBC News |
4:48pm PDT |
Seven days |
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Summary: Harrison Ford has had his manly chest waxed - why? |
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BBC News |
4:34pm PDT |
MPs attack migrant count methods |
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Summary: Existing methods of measuring the UK's population are criticised by a committee of MPs. |
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BBC News |
4:27pm PDT |
Ban Ki-moon to meet Burma leader |
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Summary: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet Burma's military head after touring the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta. |
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BBC News |
4:25pm PDT |
Record year for press complaints |
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Summary: The Press Complaints Commission watchdog says it has dealt with a record number of complaints in the last year. |
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BBC News |
4:23pm PDT |
High and dry |
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Summary: How beach water tests have affected a Welsh village |
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BBC News |
4:21pm PDT |
Bathing beauties? |
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Summary: The cleanest - and dirtiest - beaches in the UK |
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Yahoo News |
4:18pm PDT |
McCain and Obama battle over military service
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Republican John McCain
took aim at presidential rival Barack Obama's lack of military
service on Thursday, drawing a rebuke from the Democratic
front-runner for his "endless diatribes and schoolyard taunts." |
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Cnn.com |
4:07pm PDT |
Court: Texas wrong to take sect kids |
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Summary: An appeals court ruled today that the state of Texas should not have seized hundreds of children from a polygamist sect. Earlier this year, authorities raided the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Texas, after they received reports of child abuse. Abou |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PDT |
Fewer UK beaches gain top marks |
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Summary: Bathing water at the UK's beaches is more polluted since last year's stormy summer, a study shows. |
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BBC News |
4:03pm PDT |
British beaches 'getting dirtier' |
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Summary: Bathing water at the UK's beaches is more polluted since last year's stormy summer, a study shows. |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
Insulin boost for early diabetes |
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Summary: Intensive insulin treatment may delay disease progression in people newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. |
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Cnn.com |
4:00pm PDT |
Tornadoes hit Colorado, Wyoming; 1 dead |
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Summary: At least one massive tornado swept across northern Colorado's Front Range today, killing at least one, smashing buildings and dumping large hail, a sheriff's deputy said. Another tornado struck in Laramie, Wyoming.
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BBC News |
4:00pm PDT |
Bottles and stones thrown in city |
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Summary: Bottles and stones are thrown by crowds of rival youths during a confrontation in north Belfast. |
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BBC News |
3:58pm PDT |
Scottish beaches 'getting worse' |
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Summary: The annual Good Beach Guide says the water quality on Scottish beaches has dropped. |
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Cnn.com |
3:51pm PDT |
McCain rejects Rev. Hagee's endorsement |
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Summary: Republican presidential candidate John McCain today rejected the endorsement of controversial minister John Hagee, as comments surfaced in which the minister said Adolf Hitler's acts during the Holocaust were part of God's will.
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Yahoo News |
3:47pm PDT |
Congress enacts $290B farm bill over Bush veto
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Congress enacted a massive farm bill Thursday with new and bigger subsidies for farmers, plus more food stamps for the poor. |
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Yahoo News |
3:38pm PDT |
U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators to meet next week
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The lead U.S. and North Korean
nuclear negotiators are expected to meet in Beijing next week,
a diplomatic source said on Thursday, in a sign Pyongyang may
be closer to making a declaration of its atomic programs. |
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Yahoo News |
3:37pm PDT |
Prosecutors try to prove Kelly, victim are on sex tape
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A college student testified in R. Kelly's child pornography trial Thursday that she recognized both the female in a graphic sex tape and the R&B singer, saying the female was a minor when the video was made. |
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Yahoo News |
3:37pm PDT |
McCain rejects evangelical leader over Nazi remarks
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Republican John McCain Thursday faced down a fiery evangelical pastor backing his White House bid who, it was revealed, believed the Nazis did God's will by chasing Jews from Europe. |
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Yahoo News |
3:23pm PDT |
Iraq commander expects further troop cuts
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top
commander in Iraq, said on Thursday he expected to make further
troop cuts after a 45-day freeze in withdrawals that begins in
July. |
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Yahoo News |
3:16pm PDT |
Top court overturns dead fly-in-water damage claim
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A man who claimed that he became depressed, anxious and phobic after finding a a dead fly in a bottle of water will no longer get the judgment he won against a bottling company, Canada's top court ruled Thursday. |
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BBC News |
3:10pm PDT |
Blair jet faced Israeli warplanes |
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Summary: Israeli fighter planes are scrambled to intercept a jet carrying former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
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Cnn.com |
3:10pm PDT |
Congress overrides veto in farm bill mix-up |
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Summary: Lawmakers scrambled Thursday to fix a clerical error that derailed an effort to override President Bush's veto of a $300 billion farm bill.
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ChristianPost |
2:58pm PDT |
California Rewriting Marriage Forms for Gays |
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Summary: You have to figure "bride" and "groom" are out. So, what will the California marriage license look like in the new era of same-sex marriages? Will it list "Partner A" and "Partner B"? "Intended No. 1" and "Intended No. 2"? Or will it contain just blank sp |
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BBC News |
2:56pm PDT |
Celtic success delights Strachan |
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Summary: Celtic manager Gordon Strachan delights in the club's third consecutive SPL title victory. |
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Yahoo News |
2:55pm PDT |
Tornadoes rip through Colorado, Wyoming; 1 killed
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Tornadoes touched down in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming on Thursday, damaging buildings, flipping vehicles and killing at least one person. |
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Yahoo News |
2:54pm PDT |
Senate deals Bush a defeat on Iraq war spending
(AP)
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Summary: AP - In a stunning vote that illustrated President Bush's diminished standing, the Senate on Thursday ignored his veto threat and added tens of billions of dollars for veterans and the unemployed to his Iraq war spending bill. |
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ChristianPost |
2:53pm PDT |
Christian College to Let Some Personnel Carry Guns |
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Summary: Calvin College this fall will allow safety personnel with a police background to carry handguns on campus over the protest of some students at the private Christian ... |
