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BBC News |
1:54pm PDT |
MoD insists Nimrod 'safe to fly' |
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Summary: The defence secretary says RAF Nimrod aircraft are safe despite a coroner's call for the fleet to be grounded. |
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Yahoo News |
1:53pm PDT |
Mexico homicides jump 47 percent
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Summary: AP - Homicides related to organized crime jumped 47 percent in 2008, Mexico's attorney general said Friday in a rare confirmation of how bad violence has become. |
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Cnn.com |
1:30pm PDT |
Minister: Split with McCain 'best for both of us' |
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Summary: Texas televangelist John Hagee said Friday that his political divorce from Sen. John McCain is "best for both of us" and urged reporters to return to "the pressing issues of the day."
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Yahoo News |
1:24pm PDT |
Unmarked chopper patrols NY city from high above
(AP)
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Summary: AP - On a cloudless spring day, the NYPD helicopter soars over the city, its sights set on the Statue of Liberty. |
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Yahoo News |
1:23pm PDT |
Myanmar to allow foreign help for Cyclone victims
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's ruling junta said Friday it will let foreign aid workers and commercial ships help survivors in the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta, but refused to relent on accepting aid from U.S., French and British military ships. |
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Cnn.com |
1:12pm PDT |
Marines not charged in deaths of civilians |
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Cnn.com |
1:05pm PDT |
SUVs plunge toward 'endangered' list |
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Summary: Jorge Fernandez makes his way through the car lot littered with unwanted SUVs. "I've never seen it this bad," the auto dealer says. With gas prices at an all-time high, one expert says SUVs and trucks as personal cars may soon be an "endangered species."
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Yahoo News |
1:03pm PDT |
Gas roars higher, pressuring holiday travelers
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Summary: AP - As consumers began hitting the road Friday for the Memorial Day weekend, they faced the sobering reality that it now costs $87 to fill a Ford Explorer SUV, up $14 from last year, and $72 to fill a mid-sized Honda Accord, up $12. |
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Yahoo News |
12:55pm PDT |
Obama promises Cuba policy shift, attacks McCain
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama said on Friday he
would he would pick the time and place for direct diplomatic
talks with Cuba as U.S. president and criticized Republican
John McCain for embracing failed policies. |
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Yahoo News |
12:51pm PDT |
Clinton calls talk of veep negotiations untrue
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Summary: AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said her campaign has had no discussions with Barack Obama's aides about her possibly becoming his vice presidential pick. |
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ChristianPost |
12:45pm PDT |
Sausage King Gives $1M to Baptist College |
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Summary: Sausage king Jimmy Dean donated $1 million Tuesday to Wayland Baptist University, the biggest gift ever donated by an individual to the small ... |
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Yahoo News |
12:42pm PDT |
Pastor says parting with McCain best for both
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Summary: AP - A Texas pastor and televangelist says his life's work has been "mischaracterized and attacked" in the media storm over his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. |
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Cnn.com |
12:37pm PDT |
Big Brown earnings to help officer's family |
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Yahoo News |
12:35pm PDT |
Hip-hop pioneer `Slick Rick' pardoned by N.Y. gov
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Summary: AP - New York Gov. David Paterson is granting a full and unconditional pardon to rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters for the attempted murders of two men in 1991. |
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Cnn.com |
12:33pm PDT |
Obama says Cuba policy based on 'libertad' |
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Summary: Sen. Barack Obama Friday is courting Florida's Cuban Americans, a historically Republican voting bloc that Democrats argue is becoming disenchanted with the GOP.
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ChristianToday |
12:32pm PDT |
Police arrest second man after restaurant blast |
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Summary: Police arrested a second man on Friday in connection with an explosion in the toilets of a busy restaurant in southern England a day earlier |
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ChristianToday |
12:32pm PDT |
Coroner says Nimrods not airworthy |
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Summary: A coroner looking into the deaths of 14 British service members in an air crash in Afghanistan said the entire Royal Air Force fleet of Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft needed to be grounded because they were not airworthy |
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ChristianToday |
12:31pm PDT |
Parliament publishes Browns home expenses |
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Summary: The House of Commons released details of expenses claimed by 14 senior MPs including Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday after giving up a legal battle to keep them secret |
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ChristianToday |
12:31pm PDT |
Tories take Crewe by storm |
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Summary: The Conservatives took Crewe by a landslide on Friday registering their first byelection gain over Labour for 30 years and hoisting a big question mark over the future of Gordon Brown |
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ChristianToday |
12:30pm PDT |
Israeli jets scrambled to intercept Blair plane |
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Summary: Israeli fighter jets scrambled to intercept a plane carrying Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair this week after his pilots failed to identify themselves an Israeli security source said on Friday |
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ChristianPost |
12:20pm PDT |
McCain Auditioning Potential VPs in Arizona? |
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Summary: The waiting-to-be-crowned Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, has invited potential running mates to his Arizona ranch this weekend for what some have described as a “vetting” ... |
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Cnn.com |
11:55am PDT |
The lives they left behind |
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Summary: "Tuc" Church and his wife, Mindi, first met when she was 4 years old and he was 6. They marked their 12th anniversary two days before Tuc died in Iraq. "He was a great husband and a great dad," says Mindi, one of the iReporters sharing memories of loved o |
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Cnn.com |
11:55am PDT |
Remembering the lives left behind |
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Cnn.com |
11:55am PDT |
iReport.com: The lives they left behind |
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Summary: Ricky Nelson and his wife, Kristen, were high school sweethearts. She wrote him a letter every day while he was in Iraq. On the day she was told of his death, she got five letters from him, said his brother David, one of the iReporters sharing memories of |
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Cnn.com |
11:55am PDT |
The fallen, and the lives they left behind |
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Summary: Ricky Nelson and his wife, Kristen, were high school sweethearts. She wrote him a letter every day while he was in Iraq. On the day she was told of his death, she got five letters from him, said his brother David, one of the iReporters sharing memories of |
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Cnn.com |
11:55am PDT |
Fallen veterans, and the lives they left behind |
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Summary: Ricky Nelson and his wife, Kristen, were high school sweethearts. She wrote him a letter every day while he was in Iraq. On the day she was told of his death, she got five letters from him, said his brother David, one of the iReporters sharing memories of |
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Yahoo News |
11:49am PDT |
Earthquake mutes protests of Beijing Olympics
(AP)
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Summary: AP - China's deadly earthquake may have saved the Beijing Olympics. |
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BBC News |
11:29am PDT |
Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice |
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Summary: A Canadian research expedition finds dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap. |
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Yahoo News |
11:20am PDT |
China contains radiation in quake disaster zone
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Emergency crews worked Friday to secure 15 sources of radiation buried in the rubble of China's devastating earthquake, the government said as it evacuated thousands of survivors downstream from rivers dammed by landslides. |
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BBC News |
11:19am PDT |
US sect raid officials to appeal |
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Summary: Texan officials to appeal against a court ruling that they had no right to seize 463 children from a polygamist sect last month. |
