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BBC News |
11:54pm PDT |
China begins draining quake lake |
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Summary: Chinese troops begin to drain a dangerously swollen "quake lake" formed after the Sichuan earthquake. |
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Yahoo News |
11:24pm PDT |
Wonder Woman actress finds body on river in D.C.
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington. |
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ChristianToday |
11:16pm PDT |
Black church leaders cautious over Obama endorsement |
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Summary: Black church leaders in the US may privately endorse Democratic presidential nominee but they are resolute that such endorsements will remain firmly outside of the pulpit |
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Cnn.com |
11:12pm PDT |
Japanese zookeeper mauled to death by tiger |
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Yahoo News |
11:03pm PDT |
Russia's Medvedev to deliver key economic speech
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday was to give his first major speech on economic development since coming to power amid concern over the future of a major foreign investment project in the booming oil sector. |
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Yahoo News |
11:01pm PDT |
U.S. urges subsidy cuts, not regulation, to tame oil
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Energy Secretary Sam Bodman
called on Saturday for more countries to scrap fuel price
subsidies that stoke oil demand, adding that more regulation of
energy markets was not the solution to record prices. |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PDT |
US embassy attacks plane tax plan |
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Summary: The US embassy in London has criticised a government plan to tax airlines on each plane rather than each passenger. |
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BBC News |
10:53pm PDT |
US embassy in plane tax attack |
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Summary: The US embassy in London criticises a government plan to tax airlines on each plane rather than each passenger. |
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BBC News |
10:17pm PDT |
Cuba to provide free sex-change |
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Summary: Cuban President Raoul Castro allows state-funded sex-change surgery in a country renowned for sexual conservatism. |
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Yahoo News |
10:07pm PDT |
Clinton set to back Obama
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - As Barack Obama basks in his
historic accomplishment as the first black U.S. presidential
nominee, Hillary Clinton ends her groundbreaking effort as the
first woman to go as far as she did in the quest for the White
House. |
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Cnn.com |
9:55pm PDT |
Missing divers found alive on Indonesian isle |
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Summary: Five Europeans who did not return from a diving trip in Indonesia Thursday were found alive Saturday morning, a search official said.
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Cnn.com |
9:46pm PDT |
'Wonder Woman' finds body floating in river |
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BBC News |
9:35pm PDT |
Lost British divers found alive |
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Summary: Three British divers and two others from France and Sweden who went missing off the coast of Bali have been found alive. |
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Yahoo News |
8:59pm PDT |
Big Brown ready to claim Triple Crown, trainer says
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Belmont Stakes is a proven
graveyard for Triple Crown contenders but Big Brown's trainer
said on Friday he was convinced the punishing distance would
have no effect on his unbeaten and still untested colt. |
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Yahoo News |
8:55pm PDT |
Oil's biggest day yet drags down stocks
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Oil prices made their biggest single-day leap ever Friday, dragging the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 400 points and raising the once-unthinkable prospect of $150 oil and more record gas prices by the Fourth of July. |
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Yahoo News |
8:40pm PDT |
Romo, Timberlake break 100 at US Open course
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and singer Justin Timberlake may not be qualified to play in the U.S. Open, but both proved they could break 100 Friday on Torrey Pines' South Course. |
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Yahoo News |
8:39pm PDT |
Energy Secretary says fuel subsidies "ought to stop"
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - U.S. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman
called on more countries to scrap fuel price subsidies that
stoke oil demand, and warned the world to brace for more
"shocking" volatility a day after oil's biggest price surge
ever. |
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Yahoo News |
8:38pm PDT |
McCain deploying staff, expanding advertising
(AP)
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Summary: AP - With his Democratic foe now certain, Republican John McCain is deploying dozens of staffers into battleground states, boasting of improved fundraising and expanding his advertising into some of the most competitive terrain of the general election. |
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Yahoo News |
8:19pm PDT |
Federer vs. Nadal in French Open final again
(AP)
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Summary: AP - As the points piled up and the light faded, it was tough to decide which scenario had seemed less likely at the outset of the French Open semifinals Friday: |
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BBC News |
7:53pm PDT |
Murder trial |
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Summary: Emotions in check as Neil Entwistle appears in court |
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Yahoo News |
7:48pm PDT |
Drainage of China's quake lake begins: state media
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - An operation began on Saturday to drain water from a dangerously swollen "quake lake" that threatened to flood the homes of 1.3 million people in southwest China, state media said. |
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Cnn.com |
6:55pm PDT |
Dow's drop biggest in 15 months |
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Summary: Stocks tanked today, with the Dow industrials shedding 395 points, after oil prices spiked and the May jobs report showed a big jump in the unemployment rate, CNNMoney.com reports. The Dow lost 395 points, or 3.1 percent, its biggest one-day decline since |
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Cnn.com |
6:41pm PDT |
Zakaria: Obama would be good for U.S. image |
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Summary: CNN: There's a huge international perception that Senator Obama is going to be better for America's image abroad if he were to win. What are your thoughts on Senator Obama possibly winning the election?
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BBC News |
6:25pm PDT |
Clinton to bow out of campaign |
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Summary: Hillary Clinton prepares to end her bid to become US president with an emotional thank-you to supporters. |
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BBC News |
6:22pm PDT |
Anger at rail chiefs' bonuses |
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Summary: Unions and MPs from all parties have questioned Network Rail's decision to pay £55m in staff bonuses. |
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Yahoo News |
6:04pm PDT |
Cuba approves free sex-change operations
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cuba has authorized sex-change operations and will offer them free for qualifying citizens, an official said Friday. The move is the latest in a series of changes implemented by President Raul Castro since he succeeded his elder brother, Fidel, in Fe |
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Cnn.com |
6:00pm PDT |
Can Clinton's speech help unify the party? |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton says she will throw her support behind Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in a speech Saturday. Whether she can begin to unite Democrats behind their presumed nominee may be crucial to the party's success in the fall.
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Cnn.com |
6:00pm PDT |
Clinton campaign ticks down its final hours |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton is expected to suspend her campaign on Saturday and lend her support to the presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. Many feel her speech will be crucial in hopes of uniting the party for the upcoming fall campaign.
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Cnn.com |
6:00pm PDT |
Delicate endgame approaches for Clinton |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton is expected to suspend her campaign on Saturday and lend her support to the presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama. Many feel her speech will be crucial in hopes of uniting the party for the upcoming fall campaign.
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Cnn.com |
6:00pm PDT |
Will Clinton's speech help unify the party? |
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Summary: Sen. Hillary Clinton says she will throw her support behind Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in a speech Saturday. Whether she can begin to unite Democrats behind their presumed nominee may be crucial to the party's success in the fall.
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