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ChristianToday |
11:53pm PDT |
McCain endorses California initiative protecting traditional marriage |
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Summary: Republican presidential candidate John McCain has endorsed a ballot initiative in California to overturn the recent state court ruling legalising samesex marriage |
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Yahoo News |
11:35pm PDT |
U.S. and EU near private data deal: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States and the European
Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security
agencies obtain private information like credit card
transactions and travel histories about people on the other
side of the Atlantic, The New Y |
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Yahoo News |
10:58pm PDT |
Widespread intimidation seen in Zimbabwe vote
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election Friday in which President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate, ensuring he will remain in power despite international condemnation of the |
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Yahoo News |
9:49pm PDT |
US to call for UN action against Zimbabwe
(AP)
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Summary: AP - The United States plans to introduce a U.N. resolution next week calling for tough action against Zimbabwe's government, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday, to prevent the country's leaders from further abusing its population. |
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BBC News |
9:34pm PDT |
Uneasy peace |
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Summary: Whale lovers and hunters still at odds as meeting ends |
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Yahoo News |
9:06pm PDT |
Zimbabwe: "big turnout" a slap in face for critics
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper
said on Saturday the presidential election turnout could be a
record and that this was a slap in the face to world leaders
who had criticized President Robert Mugabe. |
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BBC News |
9:02pm PDT |
Cyclists flout law 'to stay safe' |
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Summary: A national cyclists' organisation has called for the Highway Code to be re-written to protect cyclists. |
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Yahoo News |
8:48pm PDT |
Guatemalan minister dies in helicopter crash
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Guatemala's interior
minister died when a helicopter crashed on Friday in bad
weather north of the Guatemalan capital, officials said. |
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BBC News |
8:46pm PDT |
Telling gestures |
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Summary: Deciphering Clinton and Obama's body language |
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Yahoo News |
8:40pm PDT |
U.S., EU near deal on access to private data: report
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The United States and the European
Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security
agencies obtain private information like credit card
transactions and travel histories about people on the other
side of the Atlantic, The New Y |
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Cnn.com |
8:39pm PDT |
Analysis: Justices' term ends on calm note |
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Summary: It looked like the makings of a perfect storm of animosity in the last week of the Supreme Court's current term, before it wrapped up for the summer recess Thursday.
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BBC News |
8:27pm PDT |
Uma Thurman announces engagement |
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Summary: Actress Uma Thurman announces she is to marry financier Arpad Busson with an advert in a British newspaper. |
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BBC News |
8:27pm PDT |
Actress Uma Thurman announces her engagement in the Times |
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Summary: Actress Uma Thurman is to marry financier Arpad Busson. |
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BBC News |
8:27pm PDT |
Uma Thurman gets engaged |
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Summary: Actress Uma Thurman announces she is to marry financier Arpad Busson with an advert in a British newspaper. |
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Yahoo News |
8:26pm PDT |
Rice heads to Seoul for talks on NKorea
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was set to arrive in Seoul on Saturday for talks on North Korea, a day after the communist state demolished an atomic reactor tower in a show of its commitment to disarm. |
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Yahoo News |
8:17pm PDT |
Angela Park's 67 gives her US Women's Open lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - All the elements were in place to bring back so many positive memories for Angela Park. She was in the 36-hole lead at the U.S. Women's Open, just like last year. She looks comfortable on another Donald Ross design, Interlachen on Friday, Pine Needle |
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BBC News |
8:16pm PDT |
US handgun ban challenge spreads |
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Summary: A powerful US gun lobby group contests handgun bans in two cities after the Supreme Court struck down a ban in DC. |
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Cnn.com |
7:44pm PDT |
Severe storms hit Plains, kill two in Iowa |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Cnn.com |
7:44pm PDT |
Severe storms hit Plains, disrupt Olympic practice |
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Summary: Read full story for latest details.
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Yahoo News |
7:36pm PDT |
Park safe from the storms and in the lead
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Halfway across the country, this U.S. Women's Open must look familiar to Angela Park. She was in the lead after 36 holes of a tournament again delayed by storms, and Cristie Kerr was moving quickly up the leaderboard. |
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Cnn.com |
7:28pm PDT |
Copter crash kills Guatemala cabinet ministers |
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Summary: A helicopter carrying two Guatemalan cabinet ministers crashed Friday in the northern part of the country, killing all four people aboard, a presidential spokesman said.
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Yahoo News |
7:06pm PDT |
Mugabe certain of victory as Zimbabwe counts votes
(AFP)
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Summary: AFP - Counting was under way in Zimbabwe Saturday after a run-off election, with President Robert Mugabe assured of victory as the sole candidate following a boycott by opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. |
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Cnn.com |
6:50pm PDT |
Opposition backers claim torture in Zimbabwe |
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Summary: With polls open for a Zimbabwe runoff that opposition politicians and international observers call a sham, alleged torture victims who support former candidate Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday that they back his decision to pull out of the race.
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Yahoo News |
6:44pm PDT |
Steven Tyler tells AP: Rehab was for meds
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Steven Tyler sought the "safe environment" of rehab last month to recover from more than just surgery — the Aerosmith frontman now says was fighting a dependency on pain and sleep medication. |
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Yahoo News |
6:35pm PDT |
Plains storms kill 2, disrupt Olympic hopefuls
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Severe storms with strong winds swept through the Plains on Friday, forcing swimmers practicing for U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha to flee pools and run for cover, killing two people in Iowa, and knocking out power to thousands. |
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BBC News |
6:34pm PDT |
Guatemala minister dies in crash |
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Summary: Guatemalan Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez dies in an aircraft crash in the north of the country, officials say. |
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Cnn.com |
6:33pm PDT |
Distribution of 'Mini Me' sex tape barred |
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Summary: A 25-second snippet of video showing actor Verne Troyer and a former girlfriend having sex, available online over the past couple of days, is all the world will see of the tape -- for now.
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Yahoo News |
6:24pm PDT |
Calif. man gets prison for burning Burning Man
(AP)
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Summary: AP - A San Francisco performance artist was sentenced Friday to as many as four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution for the early torching last summer of the signature effigy of the counterculture Burning Man festival. |
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Yahoo News |
6:05pm PDT |
U.S. says Taliban attacks may rise this year
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The Taliban has created a "resilient
insurgency" in Afghanistan and will likely maintain or increase
the pace of its attacks this year, the Pentagon said on Friday. |
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Yahoo News |
6:01pm PDT |
U.S. to pay $2.8 million to settle anthrax lawsuit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department said on
Friday it would pay former Army scientist Steven Hatfill over
$2.8 million to settle his lawsuit accusing officials of
violating his privacy rights by talking to the media and
unfairly implicating him in a |
